Too Many MySpace Friend Requests Can Get You Banned

We’ve all heard about people who get their pages banned or deleted on MySpace, but why does this happen?

There are many different reasons for it, and some of them go unanswered, but one of the most important issue with social networking is the amount of people you’re inviting to be your friend. I’ve seen adds where people promise the world and tell others they can get 1,000,000 friends within a month and then less than a month later the client is complaining because the account is banned. Why is that?

There is no way you can manually get 1,000,000 friends in a month on one account unless you’re running a sweatshop somewhere in a third world country. It takes time for the pages to load and if the designer isn’t a very good one it will take even more time to find that add button.

The other option that might allow you to get 1,000,000 friends in a month is the use of scripts and services of those who se scripts. This is never a good idea. For one, they can tell you’re using a script by the repetitive motions of the account add. They can tell if you’re attempting to load 1,000 pages a minute and see that you have 10,000 adds a day. If people used scripts to add 10,000 adds a day then no one would see the advertisements that MySpace gets paid for and they would lose business. In turn you would then lose MySpace. Is this what you want?

It is also probably hard on their servers to receive that many requests per minute. If everyone did it then MySpace would probably be slower than it already is. What a nightmare for people who do it the responsible way to add others.

MySpace probably doesn’t take to the $2.00 per hour sweatshop very kindly nor do they want to lose their money source. They probably also hate downtime. For these reasons, and I’m sure others, they ban accounts who cheat. Using scripts to gain friends is considered cheating and if they suspect that is what you’re doing then they will disable access and eventually delete the page while you lose all the friends that you already have.

Is this what you want?

Either do it yourself for an hour a day or hire a Social Networking Butterfly such as the one right here.