Fake Your Space is a service that will help you seem popular on online social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace. Fake “hot” people will post comments to your profile for only $.99 per month! (I’m not implying all hot people are fake) Witness how quickly the faker social technology space is evolving: just four months ago, Popularity Dialer debuted, and allowed you to fake one measly phone call to seem popular. Now your fake awesomeness can be broadcast asynchronously everywhere.

Oh wait, there’s already legal trouble a-brewing. They’re likely seeing the same threats that took down SingleStat.us, a service that would send notification when someone on your MySpace crush list went from “taken” to “single.”

It seems the big corporate social networks have a stake in keeping their popularity markets free from weirdness and fakesters. Is this a good idea? The iSchool’s danah boyd has a few comments on social networks needing more “benevolent dictators” who foster kids’ in their disruptive (creative) behaviors. She has composed an entire essay on the Friendster/MySpace longevity question. Speaking of that dinosaur Friendster, Fake Your Space doesn’t support faking it there.

Photo "Imaginary Friend" by Flickr user: drive by shooter

(via New Scientist)