One of the main reasons I first joined up with MySpace when it first got developed was to meet new people and keep in touch with old friends. Eventually though it became more to me as a way to get business leads than anything else. In fact, a few months ago I kept hearing about all these beneficial reasons of having a MySpace account, one of which was for business reasons, so I decided to give it a shot. At first I was a little worried about how I would add enough friends, I even did the not so smart thing and tried adding people by hand. Eventually that just annoyed me because really who has the time to do something like this by hand!?! Not me! I did a little research and looked around quite a bit and found out that you can actually automatically get people to accept you on MySpace by sending out friend requests; automatically. Its pretty crazy but most of these processes are free.

For the most part there are two types of programs available online to you:

Website Friend Adders -
These websites allow you to log into a site and add hundreds if not thousands of people a day to YOUR account. This can be done quite easily and very quickly. It's a nice little time saver indeed. You can also do a bulk add which allows you to add anywhere from 15-50 people in a matter of minutes. Pretty nifty! Simply log in, add your Friend ID, and voila. You are done. Add some friends accept some invites. I actually tried one of these just as a test; I logged in and sat there with the page open for 15 min and got 45 friend requests. So in reality you could just leave that page open, go to work, come home and have a few hundred invites!

Program Friend Adder -
There are actual programs you will download onto your computer and add friends. You can add just anyone or you can be a little bit more specific, searching by age, sex, interests, location, etc. These are nice because you can really pick and choose who you want to add and who you don't want to add! Also, you can send automated comments, replies, PMs and bulletins to ALL of your friends at once!

In both of these additions we are shown that MySpace has quickly become a place for more than just friends. Although there are instances where people aren't promoting anything and just want a truck load of friends, for the most part the people that use the above programs are people who are looking to promote or market something or even themselves. This is a really great benefit because you can easily have people see your profile and you can also send out siglinks that include your MySpace profile, or website link with a little meet and greet added to the message. It's incredibly simply, why wouldn't you want to do something like this!?!