What's so wrong about MySpace?

[GimmeSlack12]

I notice that a lot of people have a problem with MySpace and just make comments that it is a bunch of garbage and useless and stuff.

Ok, I'll admit it is an ultimate time-waster, but I wouldn't be surprised that people that bad mouth it actually have a MySpace and only badmouth it cause they're not able to admit they have one (for whatever reason).

[XNine]

I notice that a lot of people have a problem with MySpace and just make comments that it is a bunch of garbage and useless and stuff.

Ok, I'll admit it is an ultimate time-waster, but I wouldn't be surprised that people that bad mouth it actually have a MySpace and only badmouth it cause they're not able to admit they have one (for whatever reason).

Myspace is where all of the teeny bopping douchebags and jocks go to get laid. That all it is. Sure, bands and artists may use it as free publicity, but, C'mon. Why with something so elementry?

[Project]

My beef with MySpace is from a usability and design standpoint.

Put simply, its attrocious.

[thedude110]

It's vanity on acid.

[elfin buddy]

MySpace is an atrocious abomination of blogging and personal webpages. The sites take forever to load (if they load at all), the interfaces are useless, and they automatically start playing crappy low-quality music without even asking.

I try not to think about it because I think it makes my blood pressure rise ;)

[sorryiwasdreami]

It's vanity on acid.

Truth! We can close this thread now.

[elfin buddy]

... but I wouldn't be surprised that people that bad mouth it actually have a MySpace and only badmouth it cause they're not able to admit they have one (for whatever reason).

And no, I do not have a MySpace site. I take your assertion as an insult to my mental stability!

[gallagb]

i also find it to be REALLY slow on a mac
which is lame

[GimmeSlack12]

I see. I knew this would be opening a can of worms by posting this. Let's see where it all goes.

[Lau]

I got a myspace profile because a guy from college persuaded me. I insisted it was all about pulling, but he assured me it wasn't. He was wrong, but I've found it quite good. Most of the people I know on it dabble in design and web design, and so most of the pages I've come across aren't too bad. I quite enjoyed trying to get round the myspace coding to not make it look hideous. (And for the grid to line up :mad: :p. ) I just close the pages that are annoying straight away. The friends in my profile are either genuinely my friends or people that have messaged me or I've messaged them about design, and I've chatted to a few nice folk that way. Anyone random who just does a friend request I just delete. I'm also a bit of a convert after I had to organise a meeting at college for the next day without that many email addresses and phone numbers. Message through Myspace - had the best turnout yet. :p

Having said that, music and video that play without asking on web pages drives me insane, and I hate that it does that on myspace.

Actually, that's it - isn't it? It's just like the web. Some pages are crap, a few are inoffensive, a few are well designed. Most of it is people trying to cop off or sell something, but there's a few that aren't. Pages that play music, screw with your computer or don't load you just close. You find your own way through.

Having said that, if there was a more grown up and well used MySpace, particularly for design, I'd love a bit of it.

[yippy]

The problem with myspace is that it gives users a little to much ability to customize their pages. I would say that easily 90% of all myspace members break major web etiquette rules that makes viewing them painful.

Things that I see on most myspace entries that should NEVER be done:

-blasting music as soon as the page loads (the most common problem)
-very very busy background images
-text in a color similar to the background color so you can't read it
-text that changes size and/or color mid paragraph
-soft-core porn that is easily available to minors

[vniow]

I have more an aversion to that site because of the massive interface ****-up that plagues its pages. And like mentioned above it gives people roo much customisability over how they want their pages to look and when you don't have much of an eye for design, the result is disasterous. Most of what I've seen in custom profiles comes from the mindset of "Oh this image rocks! I need it on my profile!!" without regards to can people actually read the text that's placed over it, will it cause a seisure, can people find the links to contact you, etc.

That said, I do have a profile (http://myspace.com/i_h8myspace) up there, mostly for keeping in touch with people (which despite its faults, its good at) and for screwing with the code. It was a real pain in the ass to get it the way I wanted and it taught me a lot about code in general.

-Ani

[Lau]

That said, I do have a profile (http://myspace.com/i_h8myspace) up there, mostly for keeping in touch with people (which despite its faults, its good at) and for screwing with the code. It was a real pain in the ass to get it the way I wanted and it taught me a lot about code in general.

-Ani

I've come across your page through another MR member's, and I was rather impressed by your coding genius, frankly. :)

[cjc343]

I hate MySpace with a passion, and no, I don't have one. I considered putting a redirect in /etc/hosts to redirect all myspace pages to 127.0.0.1 but then I decided that having "myspace" saved anywhere on my hard drive would cause me emotional pain and I couldn't do it. Besides, I'm the only one who uses this computer and I have no interest in visiting MySpace.

[calebjohnston]

How about when girls become total sluts and break up with their boyfriends because they meet to many guys on myspace? That's probably a problem. Trust me.

How about all the kids that are molested on there every day?

How about the children that are setting up to meet "friends" from there, and then get kidnapped.

Need more?

[GimmeSlack12]

How about when girls become total sluts and break up with their boyfriends because they meet to many guys on myspace? That's probably a problem. Trust me.

How about all the kids that are molested on there every day?

How about the children that are setting up to meet "friends" from there, and then get kidnapped.

Need more?
I really don't think that many girls breakup with their bf's cause of myspace and if they do breakup then it is neither my problem and was inevitable anyway.
And sure there are the sexual predators out there, but I don't think there have been that many cases of molestation attributed to MySpace. I'm not defending that it is right, cause it is definitely terribly wrong that these things happen. I guess I'm just saying I don't think about that sort of stuff with MySpace, call me ignorant but I just think that stuff like that probably happens more on AOL chatrooms.

I think this might have some validity to what I say. (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/1,70254-0.html)

[Blue Velvet]

It's owned by Rupert Murdoch.

[miniConvert]

How about when girls become total sluts and break up with their boyfriends because they meet to many guys on myspace? That's probably a problem. Trust me.

How about all the kids that are molested on there every day?

How about the children that are setting up to meet "friends" from there, and then get kidnapped.

Need more?
Welcome to the Internet, commonly confused by parents for Childrens BBC.

I think MySpace is doing an admirable job, there's obviously strong demand for such a site and evil or no evil it's just giving people 'what they want'. Personally I don't have a MySpace, or intend to have one, but I did used to have a FaceParty and it was fun - for a while. These services have a longevity to them though. Just like real life social hotspots they come and go with new fashions, new trends and new friends.

[blackfox]

I tend to look at myspace like I do ebay - a pretty good idea fufilling/creating some useful needs, that has been manipulated/used by some crappy people, limiting it's appeal and usefulness.

meh.

[IanF0729]

My beef with MySpace is from a usability and design standpoint.

Put simply, its attrocious.

Ditto! Although I never got in on the vain web-space thing, either.

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer meeting people in person, not online.

[miniConvert]

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer meeting people in person, not online.
You're sooooooo old fashioned :p

[clayj]

MySpace is a crap web site that lets people easily generate many, many more crap web sites.

[Vaphoron]

Well, I believe the site itself is rather ugly and slow but it has allowed me to find people I haven't seen in years and easily keep contact with other people that I don't normally see or have contact info for.

[yellow]

I like to think that I'm an adult, the antithesis of all that is MySpace.

[efoto]

If you are in university you can check out Facebook, similar idea but requires a .edu email address to register and all profiles are private until the you approve them as a friend (one of my gripes with myspace). I think this may only be United States though, not sure about international....

I have a myspace because an old friend on here (who is no longer) had one and said it was a decent way to meet people in your area and also broadcast/advertise for your own works. This has proven true for me on about the level I would have expected....I put in little and have taken out little. I've met 3 different people in my area (real life interactions) from having first met them on myspace....1 was psychotic and 2 were pretty cool. There are a lot of teenage drama queens (and kings for that matter), a lot of wanna-be haters, etc etc....if you search wisely it can be a useful tool I suppose.

All of the above stated, the pages are horrible and auto-play music/movies really bites. It does seem a bit slower on a Mac for whatever reason, but usually the pop-ups on PC end up equalling things out :p

[millypede]

A) Full of Kiddy-fiddelers
B) Full of kids
c) kids who just have nothing else to do apart from sit in the shop and play on my space all day, Apple Stores are not alone in banning it all, we are too.

[Sharewaredemon]

I have one, but I don't really use it much.

I think it's overall bunk though.

I HATE when a page plays music when you load it too.

UGH.

[clayj]

Oh, and you know MySpace's reputation as the pedophiles' playground has been firmly cemented into the national psyche when SNL does a sketch about a "How to use MySpace" class at the local learning annex, and every student in the class (save one mother with a teenager) is a thirty- to forty-something man looking to hook up with young girls (or young boys) by pretending to be a young girl (or young boy).

[baleensavage]

How about when girls become total sluts and break up with their boyfriends because they meet to many guys on myspace? That's probably a problem. Trust me.

How about all the kids that are molested on there every day?

How about the children that are setting up to meet "friends" from there, and then get kidnapped.

Need more?
Okay, now I'm not MySpace fan, but seriously. With this mentality we should close down all chat rooms, online dating services, heck, I'm sure there are some pedophiles on MacRumors forums. Let's close that down too.

The reason MySpace sucks is that is has the worst design of any blogging tool out there. If you want a community blog where you can interact with friends and network, go to LiveJournal. If you want a terrible-looking obnoxious page that takes ages to load and never displays right with music that blares at you, then yeah, choose MySpace. I have a MySpace page simply because I have a couple friends there and I like to comment on their blogs, but I personally use WordPress for my blog which gives me total control over the page design, but still does all the RSS, archiving and other stuff for me.

[dornoforpyros]

MySpace is an atrocious abomination of blogging and personal webpages. The sites take forever to load (if they load at all), the interfaces are useless, and they automatically start playing crappy low-quality music without even asking.

I try not to think about it because I think it makes my blood pressure rise ;)


I couldn't have said it better myself. Basically MySpace takes the absolute worse of the web & social networking and puts it all in one place. I'm not oppose to social sites, heck I'm a member of a few myself and they can be very useful & fun. MySpace just seems to have found the absolute peak of tacky-ness though.

[Vaphoron]

I HATE when a page plays music when you load it too.

UGH.

Haha, me too!! I thought I was the only one since everybody seems to add it to their page. I didn't add a song because I think its just freakin annoying.

[iShane]

Well I for one think that Myspace is amazing. Its a great way to keep in touch with all my friends outside of school, and plus its something to do if your bored.

[yellow]

Well I for one think that Myspace is amazing. Its a great way to keep in touch with all my friends outside of school, and plus its something to do if your bored.

And you were born in 1992. :)

It definitely has more appeal to a younger audience. My 14 year old neice can't get enough of it.

[dpaanlka]

I like myspace. All of my friends on my myspace are my actual friends, except for maybe like 5, who I am friends with because I talk to about stuff through MySpace like cars. Every one of my friends is right in the 18 - 23 year age range.

Some people like to put crazy code that looks horrible and plays loud music and is crappy, but that's their profile they can do whatever they want. Obvoiusly only a few people are going to have awesome web design skills. If you don't like their profile just close it.

My Profile (http://www.myspace.com/danpalka) simply sticks to the default MySpace layout.

Myspace is where all of the teeny bopping douchebags and jocks go to get laid. That all it is.

Why so much hatred??? Geez you must have had a real tough time in high school/college.

[yellow]

Don't mind 'Zuka.. he hates the world.

[iShane]

And you were born in 1992. :)

It definitely has more appeal to a younger audience. My 14 year old neice can't get enough of it.

Yea. Its made for a younger audience too. I've seen some older people with it too though.

[iGary]

If I had kids (no offense, kids), they wouldn't be on the Internet at all without my supervision. Now before you go chastising me, I am ASTONISHED at what some 14 year olds know here - things and subjects I had not even dared to approach at that age - and they got it off the net form most conversations I've had.

That said, our local police here used a MySpace site to bust two kids that had beaten a couple of classmates to near senselessness. Yah, Myspace. Otherwise "vanity on acid" was a very adept description.

[DavidLeblond]

I have a myspace account, my wife made me do it. She finds it funny that I have to ask her how to use it all the time (I'm a coder, plus I pretty much introduced her to HTML)... She's always saying "David, such and such sent you a friend request and you didn't add them!" "How was I suppose to know?" "It emails you." (it doesn't)

"David, you need to turn off the 'play band music setting'" "I did" "Did you do it on my computer? You have to do it on your laptop too" (brilliant!)

"No no, you don't post comments on your own profile!" "But I'm responding to yours" "You have to respond to mine by leaving me a comment on MY profile" wtf?!

Not to mention every other click I make either a) goes somewhere random b) goes to an error message saying they're doing work on the system.

Look, MySpace has its merits... its a good idea IN THEORY. But the guy that originally wrote the abomination of "code" is the same idiot behind XDrive ... another horribly coded piece of crap that I was stuck using in my previous job. And the fact that people seem to use it to collect "friends" is pointless.... unless, maybe, they were to integrate some sort of RPG into the thing where you could fight your "friends" against an army of someone elses "friends"... I could get behind that....

[iShane]

If I had kids (no offense, kids), they wouldn't be on the Internet at all without my supervision. Now before you go chastising me, I am ASTONISHED at what some 14 year olds know here - things and subjects I had not even dared to approach at that age - and they got it off the net form most conversations I've had.

That said, our local police here used a MySpace site to bust two kids that had beaten a couple of classmates to near senselessness. Yah, Myspace. Otherwise "vanity on acid" was a very adept description.

Yea. That happened around here too. It was on the news where a policeman said that he used not only Myspace but the internet in general to help them find the people that commited certain crimes. He said that he spent like 75% of his time on the internet or something like that.

[GimmeSlack12]

It's not only the place where Jocks go to get laid, it's where I go to get laid too. :)

But really folks, I think everyone secretly loves being able to see what their ex-girlfriend is currently doing. It makes digital stalking something that everyone can enjoy!

[miniConvert]

If I had kids (no offense, kids), they wouldn't be on the Internet at all without my supervision.
I'm 100% with that. The Internet is a fabulous, adult tool. Parents need to take responsibility for their children on the Internet just as they do in the real world.

[yellow]

Home based proxy servers are a wonder of modern technology. :)

[iGary]

Home based proxy servers are a wonder of modern technology. :)

As Samuel Jackson said: "English; do you speak it ****************?"

God-damned techies. :rolleyes: :D

[yellow]

Ah.. heh.. all internet traffic can be routed through a server of sorts that 'allows' and 'disallows' administrator specified sites. It's a great way to keep your kids from surfing porn, myspace, using AIM, crap like that.

It also does other things, like log where they've been, etc.

Sure, it's a bit tyrannical, but "You live under my roof..." applies. We are not a Republic. :)

[SC68Cal]

I just don't have enough time/interest. The closest thing I have to myspace is facebook, and I barely use that.

To the above poster: I probably am going to do absolutely nothing to limit what my kids do on the internet, because I fear that they will be able to outwit me, much like I outwit my parents.

[tedrjr03]

If you are in university you can check out Facebook, similar idea but requires a .edu email address to register and all profiles are private until the you approve them as a friend (one of my gripes with myspace). I think this may only be United States though, not sure about international....

I have a myspace because an old friend on here (who is no longer) had one and said it was a decent way to meet people in your area and also broadcast/advertise for your own works. This has proven true for me on about the level I would have expected....I put in little and have taken out little. I've met 3 different people in my area (real life interactions) from having first met them on myspace....1 was psychotic and 2 were pretty cool. There are a lot of teenage drama queens (and kings for that matter), a lot of wanna-be haters, etc etc....if you search wisely it can be a useful tool I suppose.

All of the above stated, the pages are horrible and auto-play music/movies really bites. It does seem a bit slower on a Mac for whatever reason, but usually the pop-ups on PC end up equalling things out :p





if you change the settings you can make your profile privite until you approve them

[jaydub]

Well I for one think that Myspace is amazing. Its a great way to keep in touch with all my friends outside of school, and plus its something to do if your bored.
yep, and that's exactly what I use it for. I've found friends from high school who I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. I don't use it to meet people, I don't use it as an e-popularity gauge, and I'm not too worried about all the crap people put on their pages.

edit:// furthermore, I think a lot of the reason MySpace has gotten the reputation it has because it's the latest scapegoat on all the 20/20 investigations. People have been diddling children on the internet (and IRL!) long before MySpace was even a thought.

[DavidLeblond]

edit:// furthermore, I think a lot of the reason MySpace has gotten the reputation it has because it's the latest scapegoat on all the 20/20 investigations. People have been diddling children on the internet (and IRL!) long before MySpace was even a thought.

Exactly... when I was growing up 20/20 was telling parents not to let your kids out of the house due to the fact that "strangers with candy" will abduct them. Now that our kids are locked in the house, NOW it seems that they can't even use their computers!

Next thing you know video games will be bad for them! Oh wait...

[macrlz9]

http://www.myspace.com/boywonder8503 :)

[adriantoll]

It's owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Exactly. Shame that no-one replied to your post... Lots of things are crap and waste time, but this crap waste of time is owned by THE media oligarch.

Particularly telling is the BBC headline "Rupert Murdoch now owns myspace - "Detailed logs of its users preferences, online behaviour..."

http://blog.myspace.com/adriantoll

[yah00z]

I hated myspace at first. When my girlfriend used it, I never wanted to ever get an account. After awhile I finally gave in, and I am glad I did. Believe it or not, I found many friends that I had lost contact with after I graduated from high school. Going our seperate ways, some of us didnt really make phone contact, and cell phone numbers got changed, etc, etc. That is the best part, when one day you get a friend request thinking "Oh great, another random person... Then you check out their profile and realize it's an old friend from school. Pretty fun. Unfortunatly, I don't like the fact comments are posted on you're profile prior to you reviewing/authorizing them, it's not the best idea in the world. I really did hate myspace, then I got an account. It wasn't untill I really found a few people that I used to know that I began enjoying myspace.

[GimmeSlack12]

Unfortunatly, I don't like the fact comments are posted on you're profile prior to you reviewing/authorizing them, it's not the best idea in the world.
There is a setting to change that. You can make it that you have to authorize anything in Comments.

[Mr Skills]

The reason MySpace sucks is that is has the worst design of any blogging tool out there.

I agree that technically it's pretty poor... but if you want to meet/interact with the maximum number of people, it can't be beaten. And yeah, you could say it's too customisable, and people have horrible profiles - but I know people with equally horribly decorated homes, and I don't complain that homes are too customisable. It allows people to show some of their character - and if that's not something you like, you don't have to be friends with them.

From a band point of view, it's fantastic. Yes, there are FAR better designed band sites out there, but they are frequented only by other bands. The very fact that bands are an afterthought makes it the perfect place to find fans.

So it has its (big!) problems, but its anarchy is also what makes it successful. Other sites may be better designed, but few have the same spirit.

[interlaced]

My cousin and I put our grandma on Myspace. We want her to be more popular than that damn Tila Tequila.

http://www.myspace.com/nanaynanay (http://www.myspace.com/nanaynanay)

Befriend her! NOW!

[SeaFox]

How about when girls become total sluts and break up with their boyfriends because they meet to many guys on myspace? That's probably a problem. Trust me.

How about all the kids that are molested on there every day?

How about the children that are setting up to meet "friends" from there, and then get kidnapped.

Need more?

Wow, I'm sorry, I know this discussion is winding down but this post is nothing more (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,70254-0.html) than regurgitated FUD from the media.

Not to bring out the tired old "Guns don't kill people..." cliche, but MySpace doesn't make anyone a slut. People who already are sluts make themselves more available on Myspace. Lesson: If you're worried about your girlfriend up and runnning out on you for someone on myspace, either:

1) You don't trust her (you have a problem)
2) Your girlfriend IS a slut (she has a probelm, and you're an idiot for putting so much into a relationship with her)
3) Your relationship isn't that strong (you both have a problem)

Children get kidnapped from MySpace because they were never properly educated on strangers when they were younger, and they're hungry for attention. You don't hear this more often because the Media likes to demonize everything realitively new and online, and nobody is going to tell someone who'd kid got kidnapped it happened becuase they were a lousy parent.

What's the number one reaosn people get kidnapped from chatting, myspace, ect? I imagine it's agreeing to meet the person in a private place, or meeting in public but letting them convince you to go someplace private when you don't really know them and aren't able to defend yourself.

How about all the kids that are mollested there everyday? Like who? Do you have any real figures with sources showing Myspace to be the most dangerous place in the world you make it out to be, or are you just fearmongering?

[Sdashiki]

I wouldnt call it fearmongering so much as its the parents fault as you say.

If someone, young or old, is dumb enough to meet a stranger somewhere even stranger, without ever meeting them before, then I guess they deserve what they get.

Common sense seems to be slipping away as kids get more and more mature at a younger and younger age.

The real question in my mind is always this:

Where are the parents?

[willhclark]

Myspace certainly has its problems which all of you covered but it has its merits too and is getting hugely popular which leads ro my question.

My Mac Mini G4 is horribly slow loading some pages on myspace and occasionaly ill come across a page that makes safari locks up completely while these same pages load fine on and old Windows PC.

As a loyal Mac user this is very fustrating!!!!

[DMPDX]

People on here bitch about myspace, but if you look at it, everyone that has .mac and has a homepage their is basically doing the same thing. Making a space for themselves on the web to put hat they feel, post pics and mov ies, etc. What's the big deal people. In no offense whatsoever...GET OVER IT.
-dsm

[SublimeProgie]

i have myspace, and enjoy it. sure there are people that make it annoying, but no offense i am sure there are annoying people here too. i am able to keep in touch with some of my good friends from across the country for free so i cant complain.

[Nar1117]

Nothing is wrong with Myspace itself, but there are a lot of strange people out there who use myspace as a way to get to people and use it in a bad way.

[Sharewaredemon]

http://www.myspace.com/boywonder8503 :)

wow.

A perfect example of why I hate myspace.

[swano]

I don't mind myspace. Yeah, it's more for kids/teens and the bands who try to get me to add them drive me nuts and the blasting tunes as soon as you go to a page is annoying, and the weird people are annoying and that girl that ssems niec and friendly is probably a dude.....
Sorry...the only thing I found it good for is the few friends I found after loosing track of them after high school and college. That's a good bonus, otherwise I never go there...I'm under 30 friends and I've rejected countless bands.
Speaking of waste of time...back to WOW

[Obsidian6]

i hate myspace with all that makes me a human being.

but i will admit that i do have one, and i do find it unfortunately useful. For my purpose, i can actually use myspace as a networking tool, creating contacts which in turn spread my name around via "word-of-mouth" i think of it as a giant cesspool of free advertising :)

[bousozoku]

I don't mind myspace. Yeah, it's more for kids/teens and the bands who try to get me to add them drive me nuts and the blasting tunes as soon as you go to a page is annoying, and the weird people are annoying and that girl that ssems niec and friendly is probably a dude.....
Sorry...the only thing I found it good for is the few friends I found after loosing track of them after high school and college. That's a good bonus, otherwise I never go there...I'm under 30 friends and I've rejected countless bands.
Speaking of waste of time...back to WOW

Ummm, you could just turn off the ability for bands to send you friends requests.

On another note, I recently deleted my account. After about an hour, I decided that most of the errors were just part of the old account and decided to create another.

There must have been a browser cookie because my old e-mail address showed up. When I was almost finished, there was an error which caused me to backtrack. It replaced my updated e-mail address and I ended up creating the account with a soon-to-be-gone address. I tried to change it in Account Settings but notifications don't work. :D

It's nice to see that things have improved greatly with the new account.

[amateurmacfreak]

It's owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Haha.
That's what I was going to say....
But I still have one. :o It's seriously good sometimes.... when not abused.

[wronski]

it just feels nasty. i personally hate the place and my respect for anyone that tells me they have one instantly drops a few points, a bit like smoking. though, i think i have maybe 3 friends without an account there. yeah, i don't respect many people.

[thejadedmonkey]

I use my myspace account to keep in touch with people, but I agree it's really a pain in the . As a website designer, I just hate the way it looks. but I was able to fix that...see? (http://www.myspace.com/greenwizard88)

[thedude110]

I use my myspace account to keep in touch with people

Ah, all the more reason to hate myspace -- people who try to keep in touch with me! ;)

[rockthecasbah]

And you were born in 1992. :)

It definitely has more appeal to a younger audience. My 14 year old neice can't get enough of it.
i am 16, the prime user age of it, and i think it's a load of garbage. I hate it. I have a myspace for my band because it is great for networking to other people about shows and posting songs/ finding new audiences. We've even gotten shows from people that heard us and asked if we wanted to work with them. On a personal level though, i think it's really lame and i don't understand why every teenager NEEDS their myspace.

Other than the usability and crap design overall, the concept itself is unappealing. People start friend-whoring just to add people get get 1000000000 friends just to prove to themselves that they are cool. It is just lame. Myspace has become a highway of crap advertising of crap companies trying to sell shirts, dogs, whatever! I get enough advertisements living in Jersey, through my TV, and everywhere in public. You don't have to advertise on someone's personal BUY OUR SHIRTS, 2 / $10!!!!!. Mass-consumer-culturism is disgusting. Finally, i find the whole "myspace scenes" that have developed of emo kids, slutty girls, and whatever, have really just become the poster to label all young people into cliche groups. We all don't spend 3 hours grooming our hair to perfectly fall over our eyes and slant our heads and whatever else to make "dramatic" photographs. GRR :mad:

The only real nice thing is that you can just find pics and stare at slutty people if that's your kinda thing.

[rockthecasbah]

wow.

A perfect example of why I hate myspace.
wow you are completely right... ;)

[solvs]

Myspace is where all of the teeny bopping douchebags and jocks go to get laid. That all it is. Sure, bands and artists may use it as free publicity, but, C'mon. Why with something so elementry?
I know this is a message from a couple of weeks ago, but I've got to disagree with you. I've actually found some really good local bands via MySpace, one of which I'm going to see tonight. What it was orginally designed for before it became a place for young girls to be sluts and pedos to take advantage of them. Same thing happens on Craigslist, but you don't have to throw out the whole thing just because of the bad parts. I use it for friends too, so they can read my blog and I can read theirs. Or look at new pics. Even the non-naked kind. When I meet new people at clubs, the first thing I usually get is "are you on MySpace?", so it's nice for meeting people too, but I don't just add random strangers who try to add me. I want to know you in person.

Plus I can watch my Niece to make sure she isn't posting any naughty pics. :shudder: She's 12. Oh, and Rupert own Fox, but I still watch the Simpsons. ;)

[bousozoku]

it just feels nasty. i personally hate the place and my respect for anyone that tells me they have one instantly drops a few points, a bit like smoking. though, i think i have maybe 3 friends without an account there. yeah, i don't respect many people.

I suddenly have the urge to start smoking. :D

[solvs]

That said, I do have a profile (http://myspace.com/i_h8myspace) up there
Kinda freaked me out when I first rolled over it because I wasn't paying attention (did some kinda weird ripple thingy... stupid work PC), but I like the new hair style.