Utilizing Fake Friends

Description
When one befriends people soley for the purpose of using them as resources in the system as to foster ones own sucess.

Examples
Many games in social media i.e. CityVille will require the player to ask for help from their friends. Otherwise they won't be able to progress in the game. If you don't want to spam your real friends with requests or show them that you are a social media gaming junkie. You might opt to befirend total strangers only for the purpose to have them help you with your game.

Pros and Cons
This method is wanted if the system revolves around a user having many friends. However a downside to this can be that the users Perceived Audience dosn't correspond to her real audience.

Relations
To accomplish this behavior the user will have to be able to send invitations to other users. When asking the user to add content to their activity stream, such as game updates, allow them to decline. Many users can feel uncomfortable to announce that they are game "addicts".

Contributors
Created by Magnus Spånggård.