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Monday, October 23, 2006

The MySpace quest

After reading about the Wired article, where one of their crafty crew wrote a Perl-based script to parse criteria and weed out potential pedophiles on MySpace (leading to the arrest of one man), I thought I'd try and find out just how easy it is to get friends on MySpace while pretending to be somebody I'm not.

So here it goes.
The mission: Pose as a 15 year old girl on MySpace.
Aim: To get 100 friends within 7 days
Hypothesis: MySpace users are horny as hell, so I won't have a problem pulling this off

Details
Name: Jamie Franklin
MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/jamie_franklin
Email address: jamie_franksta1@hotmail.com

Let's see how it goes folks. I'll be posting updates on the numbers here.
The game begins now: 16:32 Monday 23/10/2006