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I am very new to this and had 3 "friends" within the first 2 days. My very first post was an important discussion to me, a dissertation on how basing our global society on greed has a negative effect on everything. The first three responces I got seemed to be trashing my idea and it also seemed none of them actually read it completely or even got the concept. Then I noticed one of these three people was one of my new "friends" so I immediately removed him. Do I really need a friend like this? I feel getting paid (even this isn't some kind of scam to start with) is inconsequetial, I just liked the idea of a place to exchange ideas and information with those of like interests. I currently have six "friends" on my list and I only really know three of them (I would have had seven if I hadn't removed the one clown lol). I'm just wondering if the majority of people using this site are so desperate for a few pennies they are willing to call ANYONE a friend. Judging from the posts I've seen, quite a few seem pretty desperate for money. I started to answer a computer question then realized the next post was related and from the same author, then I noticed the entire PAGE was like that. It looked like this kid had gone down a list of his homework questions in some college course, hoping everyone here would do his homework for him. I'm still trying to decide, do I really want "friends" like this?