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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Fakesters

On MySpace, you can be friends with Burger King. This is social networking?

By Wade Roush

Illustration by Richard Thompson

Web users have created more than 116 million profiles on MySpace, the social-networking site owned since 2005 by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. As I will explain in a moment, many of these profiles are fake. Still, 116 million is more than the number of people in Mexico and the number of cable TV subscribers in the United States.

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