The inside joke of uSocial – people will buy friends

Back in July I passed along the story of Australian company uSocial who were offering the help you get some new friends on Twitter – for a price. Even back then I said this was a scummy idea and I still feel the same but that doesn’t seem to have slowed the company down as they now have Facebook firmly in their sights.

Citing the problem with being able to get any large enough traction on Facebook as their reason for their service of helping people and companies is to increase the potential of contacting enough people to make promotional programs worthwhile. As with their Twitter service uSocial offers multi-tiered packages that start at a 1,000 friends and goes up to 100,000 friends. The cost for this wonderful service ranged from the base amount of $177 and up to $1,167.

“All we do is send them a welcome message or friend request from the client. If they decide to go ahead and add that person as a friend or a fan then they will; if not, then they won’t,” Mr. Hill told Australian media.

Source: The Globe & Mail – Not enough Facebook friends? Buy them

Twitter or Facebook the idea is still a scummy one.

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