Marine Corps Looking for MySpace Buddies

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Marines-MySpace.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

uly 24, 2006
Marine Corps Looking for MySpace Buddies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:48 a.m. ET

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) -- Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.

So far, over 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. Other military branches may follow.

MySpace.Com, the Internet's most popular social networking site with over 94 million registered users, has helped redefine the way a generation communicates. Users, many in their teens and 20s, post personal profiles and accumulate lists of friends and contacts with common interests.

The Marine Corps MySpace profile -- featuring streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches -- underscores the growing importance of the Internet to advertisers as a medium for reaching America's youth.

....more at link......

What I would worry about are the undercover Marine recruiters possing as teenagers just about to get out of High School.....

[Up2Late]

1. I just signed up today, so that I could access all of my late friends...

...profile, he died last Saturday, July 15th, it wasn't war related though.

You have to sign up to see all a members pictures and videos and I think even their friends list.

They ask for a lot of info before you can start using it, so if Rupert Murdock starts selling the info to the Pentagon, they'll have more than enough info to draft at least another Army Division.

I was surprised, it's not just 14 to 21 year olds on there, there are lots of 35-45 year olds on there too.

[wakeme2008]

2. Rupert Murdock is making good $$$ off MySpace

and I would bet selling information is part of it...

[Initech]

20. Exactly why I refuse to use Myspace

Just like all good things, it's owned by Ruprt Murdoch, and I wont give him any money.

[dmoded]

21. myspace the virus

well so long the personal webpage, its now a race to see how many buddies you can have who really dont give a shit about you.. the denegeration of the net multiplied by X200 with this site. i too will never be there.. such a waste of time for ppl:

listening to: something suicidal
mood: morose
mood2: who gives a shit! use your net time valuably!!!!!!!

[mogster]

3. Yep

I'm one of the 35-45 year olds :P

It's a great place to have a look at the world and meet people, Murdoch or not.

[pimpbot]

5. Use bugmenot

bugmenot has a bunch of logins you can use. As long as your friend's profile was invite only.

[OhioChick]

11. 60 Year-old's, too.

See this one, yet? :rofl:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60827420

[Up2Late]

13. Thanks! Hey, check out his "My Space friends"!

He's got "Bill O'Reilly," "Republican Jesus," and even "George W." <http://www.myspace.com/ilovechucknorris>!!!

"George W. has a LOT of friends too, like "Dick," "Richard" (Nixon), "Ronald Reagan," "Bill Clinton"...

AND Jesus is everywhere on My Space! Really do a search, there are hundreds of them. :evilgrin:

Man, I might have to change my profile after a while if being normal there gets too lame.

I wonder if any of them are DU members?

[OhioChick]

15. Ooh.......Another one?

That one's funny, too. The "friends" had me laughing so hard! :rofl:
A few "friends" had me wondering if they were DU'ers, as well! :)

[Up2Late]

16. Yeah "George W." is the younger, still drinkin' Version.

:evilgrin:

[TexasLawyer]

19. This George W, and his friends, have some

top notch pictures. Very entertaining!

[Mojorabbit]

17. OMG

That is hilarious. I love the 9-11 made me do it clip.

[leQ]

18. thanks for that one ohiochick.

[kysrsoze]

4. Huh? Marines combing sites frequented by teenagers, looking for buddies?

Sounds a little too kinky to me.

[wakeme2008]

6. And they get PAID to do it

:grr:

[zreosumgame]

9. with taxpayer money...

[saigon68]

12. Well at least they aren't trying to hook them up with priests

[OhioChick]

7. Recruiters

seem to be hiding around every corner these days.

[MadHound]

8. Great, first MySpace is over run with pedophiles,

Then Murdoch buys it up in order to make a killing and spread his brand of propaganda, and now the site is infiltrated by the Marines. I seriously advise anybody with a MySpace page to just drop it, now. It isn't worth all the headaches that come with it.

[Bush_MUST_Go]

10. I'd like to know the guidelines they use when they recruit kids on the web

[gratuitous]

14. Solicit a teen-ager for sex, go to prison

Solicit a teen-ager for killing and being killed, get a promotion.

Okay, makes perfect sense to me . . . :crazy: