Marines trolling MySpace.com for recruits

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-recruit25.html

KANEOHE, Hawaii -- Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.

So far, more than 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. Other military branches may follow.

MySpace.Com, the Internet's most popular social networking site with more than 94 million registered users, has helped redefine the way a generation communicates. Users, many in their teens and 20s, post personal profiles and accumulate lists of friends and contacts with common interests.

Internet reaches youth

The Marine Corps MySpace profile -- featuring streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches -- underscores the growing importance of the Internet to advertisers as a medium for reaching America's youth.

[IndyOp]

1. Is the Democratic Party out there in myspace land?

How about counter-recruiters like American Friends Service Committee?

Not such a bad idea for us...

[arcane1]

2. haha! I bet they wouldn't DARE try that on Tribe!

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