That’s why it seems so odd - the point of ‘friends’ on Last.fm was always (for me, anyway) to discover new music, not new people. I thought that the approval thing was more about repositioning the site as social one like MySpace, rather than worries about limiting stalking, though.

Still, I’m not too fussed about it - my profile doesn’t reflect what I listen to, because I rarely use iTunes and mostly listen to records and, to a lesser extent, CDs. Now that I’ll have to remmeber to fire up the app before listening to music on the computer, this will just get worse.

I wish someone would invent a wireless device that would ‘listen’ to what you play, identify songs from the CDDB and a Shazam-style service, then upload the info to Last.fm or a similar site…