Apologies for the link-bait, but it's true: Britney Spears' Facebook page is overrun with erotic pictures, many of them linking to pornographic websites. Either Spears' "social media expert" is asleep at the switch or this is part of some sort of misguided marketing campaign to sex up the pop star's apparently-still-too-staid image.
Regardless, when her fans click the Photos link on her Facebook page, they're confronted with the images like the ones above, many leading directly to hard-core ads for remarkably forward young women advertising their services for free.
We're hardly ones to proselytize, but this does seem to be a bit much for the singing star, who this week is Tweeting up a storm about her appearance on the mostly squeaky clean Fox show, Glee.
The occasional photo of an actual Britney Spears fan or Spears herself does appear in her list of over 10,000 "Photos from Others," but the majority or at least the most recent are advertisements for people like "Hilary Portman," whose message reveals that she is "seeking an above-average guy who is willing to keep up with a 21 years old, fit, drug, disease and drama free chick. It's gonna be a whole night of 'pleasing' and discovering all our erogenous zones." Her link, like the others, leads to an adult personals site where payment for sex in the style of Craigslist is implied.
It might seem like a lot to ask for Spears' people to remove the offending "fan photos from Britney Spears" from her Facebook page. (We've asked her camp for a response and have yet to hear back). On the other hand, large media presences like her regularly hire social media experts and interns to handle monotonous tasks like accepting friend requests, and it's easy enough for the regular user to un-tag themselves from unwanted photos.
Why can't one of Spears' people get on this? By our rough estimation, based on the fact that the 20th-most-recent photo in the section was added yesterday, it would only take about five minutes per day to keep Britney Spears' page free of ads for escort services.
We don't want to waste too much time on this, but it seems worth mentioning that the regularly-updated, Britney Spears-controlled official Facebook page, which presumably attracts lots of her young fan base, is only a couple of clicks away from hardcore advertisements for erotic services (NSFW).
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