Recognizing Fake People in MySpace

Pissed off with the endless invitations to free ringtones, surveys, and friend adders. Tired of deleting spams from your so-called "MySpace friends"?

While MySpace is a great site for keeping in touch with old friends and meeting new friends, it gets less and less reliable everyday with the increasing number of fake users who intend to sell or promote something instead of creating larger network of friends!

But, don't you know that it's easy to recognize fake people in MySpace? That's right! Here are some clues you ought to remember before accepting an invite from someone pretending to be your friend in MySpace:

Profile layout and background: 90% of fake MySpace users do not take time to customize their profiles. They usually leave it plain and simple.

About Me: Real people introduce themselves properly and sometimes tell stories in the About Me section of their MySpace profile. Fake users, on the other hand, do not fill this up or sometimes put very generic descriptions only.

Images: The more personal pictures there are, the more real the user is.

Other details: The more specific the details are (like interests, religion, education, occupation, etc..), the more real and believable the user is.

Comments: Fake users usually have very few comments, if not none.

Friends: Like comments, fake users have very few friends.

Links: Profile of fake users are filled with clickable links that will bring you to the site that they are promoting.

Blogs, forums, groups: Fake users do not take time to blog or join forums and groups. They are simply there to browse MySpace members and send them messages as invitations to the site that they are promoting.

Get the hints? At least now, you'll absolutely know whom to accept and decline on your MySpace friend requests