Who wants to be your friend, anyway?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 27th, 2008

The Female Half, while researching an upcoming trip to Hawaii, endeavored to befriend a MySpace entity by the name of Waikiki Beach, which represented an outfit called Waikiki Beach Services.

However, when she attempted to add Waikiki Beach to our list of MySpace Friends, she was greeted with the following:

Initially, she was outraged. But, since this is America (even on cyberspace), and since folks have the right to associate (or, last time we looked, not associate) with whom they wish, her outrage turned to simply feeling hurt, rejected and confused.

She recalls that she’s gotten the same message on a few occasions in the past– like when she’s tried to befriend one of MySpace’s “Featured Comedians.” If there is anyone who should be forced to accept a comedian as a friend, it should be a comedian who is blessed with the Featured Comedian designation. What gives? How does one even configure one’s MySpace profile to automatically reject comedians? And why would anyone do such a thing?

She now wants to configure her MySpace profile to return this:

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