Who says that is not possible to buy friends?

Have you ever received requests of friendships in Facebook from people that doesn’t know you and from countries where you never were ? If so, your name can be in one of the lists of the Australian company uSocial, whose specialty is to sell friends and fans in social networks.

The uSocial already offers similar service in Twitter and it suffers heavy critics for promoting spam, according to Reuters. In its defense, the company affirms that drives their services to the social networks due to the great potential advertising that they offer.

Facebook is a tool of extremely effective marketing, according to Léon Hill, uSocial CEO, in an official report. The reality is that, if you get many friends in Facebook, automatically an instantaneous and addressed group of individuals will exist and they can be used to promote whatever that you want. The only difficulty is that can be very complicated to get so many followers. That the objective of the uSocial.

The company sells packages between thousand and 10 thousand friends in Facebook, the largest social network of the world, at prices that vary between US$ 177 and US $ 1.167. The great problem is the form as those “friends” are “offered.”

“Everything that we do is to send a message of welcomes or inclusion request in the customer’s friends’ list. In case the people decide to go ahead and to accept the new friend or fan” they can yes or no, said Hill to Australian media.

Due to the methodology used by uSocial to offer the packages, huge controversy arose. According to some Australian sites, Twitter tried to close the uSocial, accusing it of practicing spam, while the newspaper Los Angeles Times reported that Digg.com, site in which the people vote for their favorite sites or news, had also tried to close the uSocial because it sells votes.

Facebook is the more popular social network and the fourth most visited site of the world, with more than 250 million registered users. The company has among its investors Peter Thiel, Accel Partners, Microsoft and the Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies.

Via:  uSocial.