In Soviet Russia...

[greatbear]

I don't get these random, Russian-language LJers that "friend" me for a period of several weeks to a few months, then take off. Some seem to be ostensibly "valid" bloggers with actual content (at least after being parsed through Babelfish into English) though a few have been filled with what looks like news feeds or something similar to make them appear to be anything but a bot. What purpose do they serve? And are the "mutual" friend-of blogs real, or just a network of bots as well? I don't get it. I get hit with them a lot. I never reciprocate.