So many angsty thirteen year olds want to be my friend.

October 4, 2007 8:23 AM

Myspace? Yuck. But I need to auto approve friends for the nonprofit where I work. All the programs I've seen to do this look like they're written by twelve year olds and/or are three day trials. Recommendations?

I feel like MeFi may not really have a high concentration of myspace users, but I could be wrong. In any case, I have two thousand friend requests that need to be accepted (our cause is somewhat in vogue). Macros fail, and rather than download all the free trials out there I thought I'd ask here.

It seems like auto-accepting friends should be an option built in to Myspace, but given how horribly designed the site is overall, I don't know why I'm surprised. Or maybe it's there and I'm just blind.

posted by zazerr to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

No help here, but I want to say that I agree with everything you stand for in this question, and am hoping there is an answer out there because in the very near future I will be in the same boat.
posted by ZackTM at 11:27 AM on October 4, 2007

Could you get an intern to do it? I get lots of porn spam friend requests on myspace and your non-profit might not want to be friends with porn spam. Which is to say there might be reasons to make it not be automatic.
posted by Jahaza at 11:52 AM on October 4, 2007

I had to do this for work, too. I put hacked up a terrible script with Applescript. It requires Safari and a Mac that you're not going to use (or at least browse with) while it's running. If you have both these things, my email's in my profile.
posted by hooray at 12:19 PM on October 4, 2007

Response by poster: I'd feel bad giving it to an intern. I was just searching some more and someone mentioned asking myspace to set your account to auto approve.

@hooray: If only I was on a Mac at work...

Thanks.
posted by zazerr at 2:10 PM on October 4, 2007