Buy your Facebook friends -- consider it a business decision
We all have those friends on Facebook who are little too, well, awful.
They’re the owners of more than 600 friends, a struggling career as a club promoter, status updates like, "Out tonight bottle service n VIP booth txt me if u wnt me 2 get u on guest list," and the secret hatred of anyone who browses their profile.
Yet an Australian social networking company now considers such haughtiness a promising business enterprise, even going so far as selling Facebook friends by the thousands as a means of promotion.
uSocial, the Aussie site that happens to be mired in controversy, offers packages for Facebook and Twitter that promises anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 friends or followers, should that be your kind of thing.
“Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool,” Leon Hill, uSocial’s CEO, said this week.
“The simple fact is that with a large following on Facebook, you have an instant and targeted group of people you can contact and promote whatever it is you want to promote.
“The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in.”
According to Reuters, depending on the order you place, uSocial sends a “welcome message” to people asking them to add you as a friend or fan based on your cause, product or reason for wanting a ridiculous amount of followers on your Facebook or Twitter page.
One thousand friends will cost you $177. Ten thousand goes for $1,167.
Of course, as mentioned earlier, uSocial has not been without its share of detractors. The site has been accused of mass spamming by Facebook and Twitter, the latter even launching an attempt to shut uSocial down.
And if that wasn’t enough, it was recently revealed the late King of Pop, Mike Jackson, had someone utilize uSocial to buy 25,000 followers for his Twitter page.
What do you think? Is uSocial fair or foul?
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: Chas Radcliffe | Sep 5, 2021 2:33:37 AM
While I believe it to be a terrible accomplishment, this truely was an inevitability. In every media and communication form, there is advertising. And really, what better way than sending updates, directly to consumers, as often as you want? It would be a foolish business decision to not take advantage of this.
Posted by: Jay | Sep 5, 2021 9:03:39 AM
I think, everyone should close their facebook accounts and I can give you thousands of reasons behind it.
#1 BIG REASON,
tell kids and student, not to waste time online and study.
no wonder why all jobs are moving to India and China, because our kids waste alot of time online talking to friends and actually fail or dropout from college and university.
KIDS NEED TO STUDY AND PARENTS NEED TO SPEND TIME WITH KIDS
Posted by: Jason | Sep 5, 2021 10:34:38 AM
ha ha ha Turing down friend requests is a daily chore on social networks. Everything has a price, online mass friends is just another. IDK~ Its just another money grab from people who can't hold down a job. Heh if you want to pay for my jaded sinicle opinion then send a money order LOL!
Posted by: raghu | Sep 8, 2021 8:28:07 AM
uSocial plan for selling friends on Facebook and Twitter is good. This helps in promoting business and products related to it. As this will allow the organization to bring products directly to interested or potential customers. It will help in saving money and growing customer data base. ekoob this article has explained in detailed about this.
Posted by: PWilson | Sep 8, 2021 9:17:49 AM
Facebook is for children. If you need to "buy" friends online and look like a cool dude....fill your boots.
Sorry....not just for children. Add stalkers and professional criminals as well.....identity theft is real easy when personal info is easily collected.
Posted by: AMae | Sep 8, 2021 5:01:53 PM
Wow - what a sad world this is. I remember when people actually talked to each other and knew their neighbours...as I type to a faceless crowd. While I believe technology has made some amazing advancements in our world...I am also saddened everyday at the distance we've added to communication.
I actually "purged" on my Facebook account...meaning I deleted people that I really didn't know, or that had no bearing on my life. I don't really want random people knowing stuff about me...ewww.
Posted by: Jdoe | Sep 9, 2021 11:48:26 AM
@ AMae - i Purged too, had over 400+ bout 1/2 i didnt know, dont need this sorta BS to get new freinds... hell take as walk and youll run into at least 10+ people if your in a city!
Posted by: bza | Sep 18, 2021 12:23:47 AM
Wow, that's a scary article. However, I wonder how they obtain the facebook friends in the first place. If someone wants you to be their friend they have to request permission. So why would thousands of facebook users give a company permission to be friends so they can be marketed to? Something seems very fishy about this...
Posted by: Business Opportunities | Sep 19, 2021 3:38:53 AM
Thankz............ It will help in saving money and growing customer data base.
Posted by: Businesses For Sale | Dec 3, 2021 8:24:40 PM
hey people make friends in many ways. Whatever works!