uSocial, a Brisbane based company, is best known for buying votes on social news service Digg, selling followers on Twitter, and running large marketing campaigns on social media.
Now it is selling off friends and fans on Facebook, in batches of 1000 to 10,000 for prices from $197 to $1297 – or roughly between $0.12 and $0.20.
Maybe you can have a virtual party with your virtual friends…
A British judge has made official what many of us have long suspected – that being “Facebook friends” with someone doesn’t necessarily make you their friend.
The magistrate was presiding over a harassment case in which a woman accused her former boyfriend of hounding her by sending her a “friend request” on the popular social networking site on January 21.
The ex-boyfriend, Michael Hurst, 34, was cleared of the charge after the magistrate accepted his argument that the contact was highly innocuous because being “Facebook friends” could not be defined as “friendship in the traditional sense”.
“[Popular British radio DJ Chris Moyles] has 1 million Facebook friends. Do you think he knows them all intimately?” Mr Hurst said.