How To Buy a Facebook Friend

Facebook has rarely been the platform for propriety. And yet, when a barrier is crossed like, say, buying people, it shocks the senses. That’s where uSocial comes in.

“Friends: people say they can't be bought, though in this day and age it's simply not the case,” is the marketing battle cry of this upstart with a simple mission. They promise that their Facebook marketing service can net you friends “in packages up to 5,000.”

The site is taking just pre-orders at the moment but, according to a press release a uSocial representative disseminated yesterday, the Australian company will target new friends for you and deliver them to your page. How they get these flesh and blood people to sign up for your page after they’ve been targeted is unclear. If I had $177.30 to spend on 1,000 fake friends, I’d be half-tempted to try.