I have no friends and neither does anyone I know

I was idly browsing eBay to see what the going rate is for a Gmail account. Turns out people are selling their invitations their for $10 to $40 a pop. Not a bad idea: you are part of the Internet mafia, with more free email accounts than you could possibly need, and the arrogant hipsters of Google Inc. aren't giving out their email accounts to just anyone, so you cash in, and start selling of those Gmail invitations that are flooding into your inbox. Neat, eh?

But in the course of this, I found an even more pathetic set of auctions: people selling invitations to Orkut. Yes, that's right folks: you can buy someone's fake, internet only friendship for the cut down price of a dollar-fifty. Doesn't that give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside, that the internet can bring people together, and connect them up in this way?