Internet pimping is nothing new. I would venture that between 40 to 60% of people my age—especially guys—have at some point in their lives engaged in some level of electronic gaming that didn't involve joysticks (well, I mean...). One gent from England, however, has taken it to a level well beyond anything most of us could imagine.From The Huffington Post:
Clive Worth, 60, claims to have met and "bedded" around 1,500 women online.
He's connected with 300 of those women using Facebook, a tactic Worth says has gotten him kicked off of the social networking site—multiple times.
The British ex-miner told Metro UK that he has had his Facebook profile removed four times. "Facebook don’t give me a reason any more, they just remove me," Worth said.
If these numbers are acurate, I think it might be safe to crown Mr. Worth "The Wilt Chamberlain of the internet". I find it surprising, though, that Facebook has tried ban Worth from their site as a result. Although the site doesn't qualify as a democracy, and therefore you can't argue that they are infringing upon any rights of his, it is an overbearing move. Why should they care if he's pimped 300 women using their site? Nothing he has done is illegal, unless the UK has some kind of crazy anti-pimping laws in place. Even more laughable is Facebook's response:
A Facebook spokesperson countered that Facebook is "not the place to meet people you don’t know."
Really? Is that why it suggests people to me with whom I share a mutual friend? Is this the same social networking site that owes a fair share of its popularity to games such as Mob Wars, Mafia Wars, Farmville, and others that encourage you to interact with other people—typically strangers—in an online "community"?
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