| MySpace is THE social gathering of our generation. | | | | messages every day. |
| With over 24 million unique hits in October and growing, | | | | Then one day my friend told me about a type of |
| MySpace is here to stay. If you were like me, when | | | | program that works for you helping you to make |
| you first started you were all excited about the | | | | friends on MySpace. These programs were MySpace |
| prospect of making a ton of new friends and possibly | | | | friends adding programs or friend bots such as |
| a showing everyone how cool you are. You were | | | | FriendAdder He currently uses a program just like this |
| determined to make friends on MySpace. You | | | | to help promote his website on MySpace. So far, he |
| probably spent a few months browsing through all the | | | | has increased his hits by 800%!! I was shocked, but he |
| people in your area built your circle of friends to a | | | | explained that he would gain around 500 friends every |
| respectable hundred or so. Maybe even connected | | | | day. Through these friend adding programs, he was |
| with some old friend you haven't talked to in a while. | | | | sending bulletins and comments automatically to every |
| But me, I wanted more. I wanted thousands of people | | | | one of his 4500 friends at a push of a button. I realized |
| checking out my profile every day. I wanted people | | | | that this was the way I would be able to easily make |
| that I didn't even know to send me comments and | | | | friends on MySpace. I could even send every one of |
| messages. I felt this was a great way to really get to | | | | my friends a comment at the same time. I was |
| know what kind of people actually used MySpace. | | | | skeptical at first, who wouldn't be. But then I realized |
| Unfortunately, as any work does, it started to get | | | | that most of these programs are free to try, and after |
| tedious and boring. Browsing through all those profiles, | | | | trying it for just a few days I was hooked. I'm even |
| having to manually click through them, and then have | | | | getting great comments from some really interesting |
| the friend request sit unanswered for days or even | | | | people that like the same bands and sports teams that |
| weeks. Trying to make friends on MySpace seemed | | | | I do. |
| to be harder than I thought. I would see all these | | | | From that initial two hundred; I now have well over two |
| profiles with thousands of friends and hundreds of | | | | thousand friends and growing daily. I've met a bunch of |
| comments. Then I realized, that's what I wanted, the | | | | cool people, and had some really great conversations |
| excitement of logging in every day and finding tons of | | | | with more than a few. It feels great to log in and see |
| new friends and messages waiting for me. At this | | | | that "New Messages, New Comments" on my page all |
| point, I had so many things that I wanted to share with | | | | the time, and it's now so easy to make friends on |
| people. A new layout, cool music, great pictures, but I | | | | MySpace. Now I can easily leave funny comments |
| was baffled as to why people weren't just adding me | | | | and news to all of my friends with the click of just a |
| as a friend. Even some of my closest friends had | | | | button. |
| hundreds of other people sending them comments and | | | | |