http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2014/04/20/friends-and-influence-for-sale-online/ honestly, the thing that threw me... Was that 1,000,000 twitter followers only cost $3700. Why'd it take howard so long?
. . . ............. ===================== Isn't that Rich? Paid Friends: Weary of Genuine Relationships, Rich New Yorkers Hire Stand-Ins 'It's hard to go back to real friends.' By Richard Kirshenbaum | 11/05/13 7:39pm ===================== ===================== http://observer.com/2013/11/paid-friends/ ===================== [video=youtube;Vxni-FM-UVA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxni-FM-UVA[/video] ....
Sounds like quite a few Members right here on this site. But today’s bots, to better camouflage their identity, have real-sounding names. They keep human hours, stopping activity during the middle of the night and picking up again in the morning. They share photos, laugh out loud — LOL! — and even engage in conversations with each other.