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Fictional Profiles, Real Friends

By Adam Conner

One of the things that caught my eye in all of the fallout and discussion from the Obama MySpace controversy was this line from Micah's original TechPresident article:

"And indeed, for MySpace this probably will never be a problem again"

And for future and current politicians, it probably won't be. But MySpace has built an entire lucrative industry around marketing its social network to feature and promote profiles of upcoming movies, popular television shows, and various fake profiles of fictional characters.

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