This will be a serious question for a friend of mine in a couple of days time. She is in the running to land her dream job, being a radio DJ, with the position going to the person with the most MySpace friends (starting with a new account to be launched on Sunday) by December. The one with the least friends gets eliminated each week until then.
So, how would you go about getting the job then?
Post nude pictures of herself?
… with a female friend?
Good… but there’s probably in something in the job description against that. Remind me to check
Okay, then, scantily-clad. In a promotional t-shirt from the radio station.
I would post her site (along with honest explanation of the contest) on social sites like Digg.com, Reddit.com, Netscape.com, Fark.com etc. Though people can be pretty cynical, they’re usually pretty down to help someone out. For example all the time on Fark, you see something like “Help so and so’s bar win the poll for best watering-hole in West Des Moines. Click here to vote!” Then the person ends up winning the vote like 36,000 to 200. Comes up all the time with stuff like High School Battle of the Bands etc.
I betcha it’d work.
She has to get her site out into as many high traffic areas as possible. Word of mouth isn’t going to cut it for something like this. If she can do something outrageous (like the first eBay-er to sell his forehead for advertisements) then it has a chance to go mass media.
So that’s how radio DJs get chosen? Having the most MySpace friends? Kind of sad, if you ask me. Hell, what if the winner has the voice of Truman Capote or something?
Hmm…insane self-promotion chops + non-conventionally appealing radio voice = Howard Stern. I think the winner might be OK. 
She’s already had phone interviews after a written application. Voice is obviously important (and she’ll be putting clips on MySpace). Working with publicity is another key skill for the modern DJ, hence the MySpace final round.
Another (albeit time consuming) way would be to spend hours upon hours adding anybody and everybody she sees on Myspace. Especially if she has an attractive picture of herself.
do bands and celebrity-type myspaces count? because those, at least in my limited experience, will usually just add you back no matter who you are.
She could also join myspace groups and add everyone in the group
Or just send out hordes of requests, but all with attatched messages that either imply that the person should know her (ie, “remember me?” or “long time no see!”) or complimenting their profile (ie, “I love Band X, which was mentioned in the person’t profile! you seem really cool. add me?”)
Or send out hordes of requests, but do it by mutual friends. Lots of times, if I have no idea who a person is, I’ll check to see who else from my friend list is on their friend list. If we have lots of mutual friends, I’ll just assume I know the person.
I’m not positive, but I think there are myspace bots that send Friend Requests enmasse. I’ve seen a lot of friend requests from adult entertainers and webcam girls that seem to be a mass marketing attempt.
There are three laws to marketing on the web: