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A few months back nearly every advertisement on MySpace became an advertisement for True, an online dating service. While the ads were all ridiculous (girls in bikinis, half unbuttoned shirts, etc.), they were just ads. I’ve learned to ignore nearly all ads and I block flash ads, so the change didn’t really matter to me. Judging by the ads, True probably has a 50:1 male-to-female ratio, and the females who have joined apparently want to be objectified. I already think MySpace is one of the worst popular sites on the Internet, so the ads couldn’t lower my opinion much. Then this happened:

True started to create fake profiles in order to advertise for their site. The profiles all say basically the same thing (I love to take naked pictures/videos of myself; Come see them at True) using the latest “I don’t understand capitalization/punctuation/basic grammar” English that is so common on MySpace. I thought that this was incredibly stupid, but then I scrolled down:

People actually fall for this. If you see your picture in that screenshot, you will forever be known as an idiot. Some of these people actually post comments like “Damm yuo fine! we sould chat sometime gurl” and other drivel.

I used to get these requests every couple of days and I would just delete them the once a week that I bother to log into that terrible site, and then…

I started getting them a lot more. Obviously MySpace either doesn’t care about this or they are getting paid for it as a new form of advertising. True is mass creating these profiles and bulk messaging with them. With MySpace doing nothing about it, I’m seriously considering deleting my profile and never going back to the site. The 2 minutes a week I spend on that site shouldn’t be spent deleting false profiles.

After I logged out, I saw another <sarcasm>great</sarcasm> True ad:

Hello Photoshopped model, will you “be my girlfriend for the season?” Are you kidding? True is quite possibly the worst site on the net now and somehow it is actually dragging MySpace down with it.