FRIENDS YOU CAN COUNT ON

by Ken Stern

Solution: CHAOTIC

Each of the listed "friends" is a MySpace userID, whose profile (http://www.myspace.com/userid) describes a character in a children's book.

Each of those seven character profiles has one or more of the others on his/her friends list. Where each character has n friends, take the nth letter of the author's last name (as indicated by Mr. Lonely's concern about last names). When the characters are put in order of their age as shown on the profiles, the letters spell CHAOTIC.