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Porn stars want to be my friend on MySpace?

This is weird: i got a friend request from a scantily clad young woman today but when I look at her profile, I can't see what we have in common other than that we're both female. She's talking about being a virgin and yet has plenty of rather revealing photos of herself and links off to some outside site that I'm afraid to visit. is this common?


Dave's Answer:

I only recent experienced a similar friend request myself, so I know exactly what you're talking about and you're right, it appears that amateur and, most likely, professional porn and adult actors and actresses are indeed utilizing MySpace to extend their, um, network (e.g. sucker you into helping them gain more visibility).

Here's what I saw on my friend request list:

MySpace Profile: porn character Ashley?

She's attractive, but who is she? Well, clicking on her name reveals a profile that's reasonable enough:

"Hey!! My name is Ashley and im from Boulder! I am currently attending the University of Colorado to become a dentist! I'm 20 years old and love dancing! I really dont go out much, but when I do I can get crazy when im with my girls! I wanna thanks Cindy and Laura for being the best friends a girl can ask for! DONT message me saying anything disgusting or asking to go out before I even talk to you. Well I don't really know what else to say about me! I have more pics of me if you want to see my website. Its like a hobby of mine so its completely free to register, just tell me what ya think!"

The problem with Ashley's profile here is that the Web site referenced in "see my website" is the domain http://www.freevirgincams.com/ashley/

I haven't been to the site, but I don't think I need to click on the link to be confident that it's not the site of a 20 year old dental student but rather a budding porn star who likely has nothing to do with Colorado or any college.

Did I have her join my network as a MySpace friend? What would you do?

Suffice to say, if you get friend requests from people that you don't want as friends, don't accept them! Like any other networking site, it's best to be more selective, at least in my opinion.


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Reader Comments To Date: 11

Ben Zvan said, on September 27, 2006 8:12 AM:

More liekly, this is a professional site that has set up several fake MySpace accounts and is using the "friends" feature to spam other users. The obvious connection to marketing is in the /ashley/ portion of the url. While this may be an actual, personal page on that domain, it is more likely that it is a method for the webmaster to easily view their logs and find out which fake profile brings in the most hits, then tweak the other profiles to increase their effectiveness.

I never noticed the dry-erase markers down here at the bottom of the page before. That's pretty clever.

LoLo said, on December 9, 2006 7:17 AM:

"Ashley" has several hundred accounts on MySpace. It's just some typical adult web cam spam. Here's a little write-up I did about this a while back:
http://www.burntpickle.com/articles/fake-myspace-profiles/

henry bentley said, on March 24, 2007 8:10 AM:

looking for e-mail address of female porn stars from around the world can u help me cos i want to star in a porn movie

Gina said, on April 17, 2007 10:57 PM:

I made a mistake and accepted a friend request from a porn site. I have deleted them from my site, however, want to delete me from theirs. Is there a way to do this? Help please! I'm new and learning fast, or so I thought.

Thanks

Gina

Dave Taylor said, on April 18, 2007 2:05 AM:

Henry, good luck! :-)

Gina, I don't think there's any way to have someone else remove you from their friends list...

SpiryEros said, on May 15, 2009 7:49 AM:

Hahaha thats good take them to a drink

mario said, on July 19, 2009 6:57 PM:

yes it is!

Rangaswamy said, on December 11, 2009 10:02 PM:

This is a cool site

ki said, on January 10, 2010 2:52 AM:

eh - thats messed up

sanjay george said, on April 2, 2012 3:21 AM:

Hey my name is sanjay george from Delhi. I live in D.B. and i want to be porn star please help me..... please.
really i will be good performs. believe at me please and sent again message ......

xpiror said, on December 26, 2012 3:21 PM:

my name is xpiror from Nigeria,i really like to be a porn star,please connect me if possible..thanks

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