You And All Your Imaginary Friends On MySpace

As I've mentioned before, randomly clicking through MySpace will lead you to some pretty goofy shit. And one of the goofiest things I've seen is the phenomena of the Phony Friends List: friends lists that are populated by made-up people.

The best lists are the ones populated by movie characters. Take, for example, the profile of John Kreese. Kreese was the evil sensai from the Karate Kid movies. Kreese, in real life, is actually actor Martin Kove. But his friend's list isn't filled with people from Martin Kove's life; it's filled with people from John Kreese's life, all of whom are fictional. And, oddly enough, every character from Karate Kid happens to have a MySpace profile.

But that's just an easy example. More searching will lead you to the really oddball ones. Like this profile for Monique, the foreign exchange student from Better Off Dead. And her friends list will lead you to this incredibly obscure profile for Rick Morehouse, the guy who uttered the classic line, "Where do you get off having tits?" in Just One of the Guys. (That one was for the fans, and you know who you are.)

What's all this mean? That everything on MySpace is bullshit. If you're on MySpace to actually make friends, you may want to consider getting medicated, because you've deluded yourself into thinking that everything on MySpace isn't fake. Even my own profile is 99% made-up. (I actually am a white caucasian.) It's basically a nice place for people like me to make fun of idiots who take this shit seriously. And there's a lot of idiots to make fun of.

But keep that under your hat. I wouldn't want John Kreese and his Cobra Kai badasses coming to kick my ass. I know he's for real.