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"While Facebook has recently registered a trend towards &amp;#8216;unfriending&amp;#8217; or &amp;#8216;defriending&amp;#8217; amongst a number of its members, another little-known software product is offering to do the exact opposite. It sets out to boost your social network numbers dramatically. The commercially-available &amp;#8216;friending&amp;#8217; software &amp;#8216;Facebook Friend Adder&amp;#8217; is dedicated software that assists you to exponentially grow your &amp;#8216;friend&amp;#8217; network with automated assistance. So much for &amp;quot;keeping it real.&amp;quot; Writing in his new book &amp;#8216;Cyburbia&amp;#8217; about online social networks, British commentator James Harkin picks up on this phenomenon and is critical of what he sees as &amp;quot;weak ties&amp;quot; being a &amp;quot;...recipe for a carnival of threadbare electronic friendship.&amp;quot; Somehow you get the impression that consumers and end users of this software are more concerned with their marketing reach than meaningful relationships."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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