As a recent convert to MySpace, I'm still a bit confused about exactly how it works.

Sure, I'm down with searching out everyone from adolescent crushes to the people you went to nursery with. And I've loaded the requisite assortment of super photo-shopped hot photos and astonishingly awkward childhood pics. But the friends thing - I'm confused.

Am I supposed to be polite and let everyone be my friend? Even the Florida ganglord gripping two handguns in his photo? Or the nice-looking boy who said he wanted to ____ on my ____?

Surely not.

Some people seem hellbent on getting as many friends as possible. I've been treating my page a little like an exclusive club. Not pretty, accomplished, or cool enough - well, then, you aren't friends with me, even if we are dating in real life. One friend nicknamed my favourites page "the gallery of hunks". I didn't have the heart to tell him it's basically the "gallery of conquests".