It ain't a cold, it's the fucking Bubonic-Pornonic Plague.

Fake friend requests.  From porn site hosts.  Sites created by people paid to sit and create MySpace porn profiles for 8 hours a day.  Often with these common elements:

1) Same profile pic (slutty, alluring--female OR male).

2) Same 'About Me' section (containing #s 3 & 4 below).

3) Same "My AIM name is [fill in name here]"

4) Same (and this is most important) link to a site leading to something porn related.

Nutshell?:

Blind friend requests+Cute profile picture+gullible MySpace user=an infectious cyber disease that--if it were a real human-contagious virus--would make AIDS look like a 24 hour flu. 

And it's spreading.  More and more each day. 

Because people are paid to spread this sh*t.  Somewhere, someone is earning 8 bucks an hour (or less!) to create these profiles and make life miserable for the rest of us.  Mostly because there's enough perverts out there that it pays for the site masters to pay 8 bucks an hour to have these profiles created!!!

And MySpace doesn't give a damn.  If MySpace wanted to eliminate the fake porn profiles--the problem could be alleviated in DAYS.

Days, you hear that? D-A-Y-S.  Less than 30.  It would take 10 MySpace-hired employees, 1 MySpace hired programmer (pay the guy well!--it's worth it!), and less than 30 days--to make establishing these profiles a non-profitable affair (if there was no money to be made, they wouldn't do it), and to eliminate 99.9% of existing porn profiles from the database.

Now.  Wouldn't you like to see this happen?

Most of you would say, "Fuck YES!!"

Why isn't it happening already?

Because MySpace

1) Doesn't suffer from the profiles' existence

2) Doesn't really care about users who have to deal with it (unless it presents a lawsuit-potential threat)

3) Still makes money from those profiles in a round-about way

So.

Do you want to be part of the solution?

Then check here often for updates. 

Frankly, what I need from you is publicity, and time.

Publicity in the form of grass-roots movements toward newspapers and television/radio stations.  Yes, most are owned by just a handful of corporations these days.  But voices carry.  If Imus can be fired from MSNBC for calling female basketball players 'nappy-haired ho's', then any group of individuals can be heard and listened to--if enough of them speak up.  If you think MySpace has been given a bad rap in the media--you're right. 

Let's give them a worse rap.

And in doing so, let the media know that the VAST majority of us are sick of the way Rupert Murdock has attended to the problems that plague this venue.

As for time, well, that's a financial issue.  At my new job I've learned a bit about the internet and how to create a site that gets seen.  In less than 30 days, due to the closing of the sale of my condo, I'll have the to money to:

*Create a domain name with 10 year registration. I've learned that a 10 year domain registration in and of itself creates a pretty good search engine rank.

*Purchase a web-hosting account and the software to create a site to promote the cause.  The 'cause' is shaming and humiliating MySpace into proactively fighting this scurge (see 'publicity', above).

That's really about it.  The cost will be around $90 bucks for a domain registration for 10 years and maybe $300 for the hosting account and necessary software to create the site, operating for a year.

This, as of the middle of May, will be within my budget.  Easily.  Call it 'fun money.'

So I don't need your money. I just need your voice.

However (yeah, sure, there's always a 'however'), if you'd like this party started NOW.

Then I'd need some help.  Here's the list:

1.  I need a paypal account that people can make contributions to.  If you have this expertise (I've never done paypal myself except at my old job with their account), then e-mail me at rav@ravnostic.com.

2. I'd need people willing to pony up a few bucks for the cause after the paypal thing was set up. 

That's about it. 

Elsewise, I'll deal with this in about 20 days.

Meanwhile bring awareness. End the scourge. Think of it as washing your MySpace hands after taking a MySpace poo and wiping your MySpace ass.

Just a thought.  It's up to you whether this makes the news or goes over like a fart in a church pew.

Pun intended.