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

[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.