Aggressive social marketing: buying friends on social networks
Posted by Admin @ April 1st, 2007 in Social Marketing
For the social marketer with no patience and / or a bad product, the solution is simple: for a few hundred dollars you can buy as many online friends as you like. Friend trading sites – also called friend trains – such as mysocialmarketing.com and friendfrost.com offer instant popularity on the web. They claim they are able to add as many as 5000 friends to a brand’s network within a week, reports the Canadian Globe and Mail. It is unclear where exactly all these friends come from and unverified whether they are all actual people.
Also, YouTube video views are sold by the tens of thousands on the same mysocialmarketing.com. 10,000 views are sold for $299, guaranteeing that they send actual people to go and view your video every day.
Up to now, online contacts are mostly bought by bands that need exposure and fake popularity, and small businesses. Myspace has already stated it is not happy with these practices and has already threatened to sue an English friend train.
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Brilliant, thanks for the heads-up