Drive-by friending

[ksmith]

Why exactly do certain folk friend/unfriend over the course of a few hours? I mean, what the hell is the point?

Funny how you can usually tell by the username that they likely won't be staying long. Mixed letters and numbers in names and lots of x's and all that.

Don't they have anything better to do...?

Comments

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Silly people don't know what they are missing. :-)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Dogs and furnaces and chimneys and stuff.

I'll show them a Tuckerization...

[janni.livejournal.com]

I've been known to add folks, and within a few days go "eek, I'm spending too much time online!" and remove them again.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that happens. But these are the folks that rolanni mentioned a few weeks ago, that friend you, then unfriend you in a matter of hours.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I suspect they are astroturfers (shills trying to stir up buzz about something or other). They friend people and hope that those people automatically friend-back, or at least pop in to see the blog, and thus get exposed to the fake grassroots' sales pitch.

Why they do it for only a couple of hours, I can't fathom. I can think of three or four reasons if I make a lot of assumptions about the technology.