This is interesting..

The advancement of the internet...
http://www.alternet.org/story/150049/corporate-funded_online_'astroturfing'_is_more_advanced_and_ more_automated_than_you_might_think?page=entire

Wow, I knew bots and other nasties were getting sophisticated, and knew there were places in India and China where you could hire whole call centers of people to generate Spam, but this takes it to a new level.


I do wonder just how effective it could ever be though, for every fake user, how many real ones are there?

Wow that's kinda scary

Deffinitly pretty scary

Am i real or fake? You'll never know!

Who are -you- ?

China has been doing this for a while now so it's nothing new. I think I've run across people like that in various forums. You'd think it'd be easy to spot those people who are really trying to pump something. I mean I bet they stick out like a soar thumb.




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