One indication of popularity of a band or music artist these days is how many friends they have on MySpace and how many times their music is played and commented upon. I recently came across a service that now helps you get those new friends. Contrary to the advice given in the classic Dale Carnegie book mentioned above, some new enterprising service provider, mysocialMarketing.com, now offers you a way to buy them. A package of 3000 to 6000 new friends is available for the unbelievably low price of US $149, a saving of $150 off the regular price.  10,000 profile views and song plays can also be purchased for an additional $299.

Here is one of their pitches:

"It's quickly becoming common knowledge that many major labels will not consider a band on MySpace unless they have at least 25'000 profile views!
Don't miss out on that opportunity simply because of a technicality.Ok, time to level the playing field! We'll now send unique people to your profile to rank up your views and song plays lightning fast."

I am seriously reluctant to advertise them, but at the same time these types of services need to be exposed. This is really bad for social networking.

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