Sony just can’t get it together.  Don’t they know that when you advertise for social network spammer interns, you don’t make it so public?  Actually, Hashim makes it sound like a better deal than it is since Sony BMG’s Epic Records isn’t hiring social network spammers, they’re offering them unpaid internships.

Here’s the ad:
INTERNS NEEDED FOR EPIC RECORDS ONLINE DEPARTMENT
This is a PART TIME Unpaid Internship
Location: Santa Monica  CA
Date Posted: 1/30/2006 3:24:32 PM
Description: Do you blog, have lots of friends at your MySpace page, and love music?

Epic Records is looking for skilled, motivated interns to promote artists on social networking sites like MySpace, purevolume, Facebook & others.
Requirements: Interns must be internet savvy and be available to work at the Epic Records office in Santa Monica, CA 10-20 hours per week.

HTML & Photoshop skills are a plus, but not necessary.

This is a non-paying internship and interns must be able to receive college credit for their internship.

"Must be able to receive college credit" for their social network spamming?  That’s f*cked up!

I guess Epic Records just wants to do their part in adding to Sony’s increasingly diverse problems.

Last month I took a look back at Sony’s PSP graffiti ads that resulted in a backlash of sorts, but I still haven’t gotten around to discussing the Sony rootkit debacle.  Fortunately, Sony’s misadventures were chronicled by Boing Boing in a 6 post (and counting?) timeline.