Make Facebook Friends? Bah. Buy Them!

A few weeks after the death of Michael Jackson, a company called uSocial announced to the world that it had engaged in the "highly controversial" (their words) practice of selling followers to the pop star. The site claimed to have sold some 25,000 to Jackson's family. Now the company, which clearly knows a thing or two about making friends, is doing the same for Facebook.

"Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool as anyone with a large number of targeted friends or fans can attest to," uSocial CEO Leon Hill said in a press release issued this week. "The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in."

Users intrested in buying their way to more friends can now pick up 5,000 for the low price of $654.30 (down from $727). Who says you can't put a price on friendship?

Originally posted to AppScout.