Is it just a fluke or do people have way too much time on their hands requesting to be a "friend" but only offering just more of the same dating PR0N and "work-at-home" spam?

I do have a day job and I don't "need any". But still I get plenty of "friends" who aren't looking for friendship or any form of solidarity against Buchmanism and its groupies. All they want is yet another link. Too bad. Y' ain't gettin' any here. More than likely, such fools will just wind up having their profile screened, blocked and denied.

But hey! Just like any addiction, they could stop wasting their time and just KNOCK IT OFF! Unfortunately, on MySpace, most people won't issue a block and deny. In an effort to prove how "popular" they are most will just allow such "friends" to accumulate as just more notches.

Folks, there's quality and there's quantity and you just can't have both. You can have a quantity of "friends" but who are nothing more than very seedy individuals who are just looking for MySpace hits. Or, you can perform some actual screening by examining the supplicants' profiles and go from there.

It takes time and will result in a very short MySpace friend list but you know they're quality intelligent friends. It also avoids the big problem of "guilt by association": You are who you hang around with or, in this case, consider friends.

And yes, it is worth the time and effort. I've seen far too many "pimped" and poorly-formatted MySpace profiles that only offer a whole lot of flash but nothing really substantial in thought-provoking material (mainly the usual spam). And if I like your profile I may just throw a friend request your way.