Myspace.com

[Felldownthewell]

Don't completely ignore it. Unfortunately, there is something to it, though it's not nearly as bad as the media and parents make it out to be. If you have your full name on your profile, that's way too much. You approve someone's random friend request and they can put things together.

Of course, even pure blogging sites can be too informative since you can see more than just who visited.

Posting your full name or address or SS# is stupid. Doing it and posting nearly-nude pics of yourself is worse. However the corp. media keeps running stories about how kids post suicide notes on myspace and how kids have "secret online lives" on myspace. If a kidnapped child had a myspace, even if there was no connection tot eh abduction, it gets spread all over the news. A local channel ran a story about how kids are turning into deliquents becuase of myspace...NEWS FLASH: Your kid was a deliquent long before myspace came around!

My point is that yes, myspace can be used for bad, and it is addictive, and there are some very irritating people on. However myspace is not the root of all evil and it should ne be portrayed as such.

 

[bousozoku]

Posting your full name or address or SS# is stupid. Doing it and posting nearly-nude pics of yourself is worse. However the corp. media keeps running stories about how kids post suicide notes on myspace and how kids have "secret online lives" on myspace. If a kidnapped child had a myspace, even if there was no connection tot eh abduction, it gets spread all over the news. A local channel ran a story about how kids are turning into deliquents becuase of myspace...NEWS FLASH: Your kid was a deliquent long before myspace came around!

My point is that yes, myspace can be used for bad, and it is addictive, and there are some very irritating people on. However myspace is not the root of all evil and it should ne be portrayed as such.

You're right. It's today's society that blames all of the problems on something or someone else. It wasn't always that way. There was a time when most people took responsibility for their actions. Maybe, I've just been around Central Floriduh too long.

I've seen quite a few people with their full names on one of those surveys and I mentioned it to them and they were angry at me but then, they'll totally ignore a faker posing as a 16 year old. It's not possible to save people from themselves, is it? In the end, the dumb will inherit the earth.

 

[solvs]

I've got a million friends! XP

Or, like I said, it can be used for bands.

 

[bousozoku]

Or, like I said, it can be used for bands.

I love it for the music.

 

[rickvanr]

This cracked me up

Pedophile Less Interested The More He Views 13-Year-Old's MySpace Profile

 

[clayj]

Here's what I wrote on another forum regarding MySpace.com:

"MySpace = crap.

It's as simple as that. A crappy site that allows people to create more crappy sites. Seriously, I've seen a few sites on MySpace and I felt like my eyes were going to bleed."

 

[cycocelica]

The shirt my friend and I made.

 

[SamIchi]

Or, like I said, it can be used for bands.

Yea that's what I use it for mostly. It's cool to leave stupid comments to friends too.

Someone added me on myspcace with a mac thing goin'. Was that you? I didn't even put my link in here.

This cracked me up

Pedophile Less Interested The More He Views 13-Year-Old's MySpace Profile

Hah, that was funny.

 

[solvs]

Someone added me on myspace with a mac thing goin'. Was that you? I didn't even put my link in here.

Not that I know of, unless you're a band. Or the cute girl I met last night at the club named Skye. That's why I love MySpace, for all you haters out there, I found a couple of cool bands that were playing together at a club/art show last night. It was a cool gig, I'm so glad I went, and I can't wait for their next show. Met the band backstage afterwards. And one of the lead singer's friends, who was cute, if not a little tipsy. She started shaking my hand and WOULD NOT LET GO! She just kept holding my hand and touching me on the shoulder with the other hand while rubbing up against me, talking about how great the band was and how nice it was for me to support them, and how we should all go to karaoke and get drunk sometime.

It was great, so I added her account today when I got home.

 

[rickvanr]

Not that I know of, unless you're a band. Or the cute girl I met last night at the club named Skye. That's why I love MySpace, for all you haters out there, I found a couple of cool bands that were playing together at a club/art show last night. It was a cool gig, I'm so glad I went, and I can't wait for their next show. Met the band backstage afterwards. And one of the lead singer's friends, who was cute, if not a little tipsy. She started shaking my hand and WOULD NOT LET GO! She just kept holding my hand and touching me on the shoulder with the other hand while rubbing up against me, talking about how great the band was and how nice it was for me to support them, and how we should all go to karaoke and get drunk sometime.

It was great, so I added her account today when I got home.

Or you could have gotten her number, but that's so old fashioned. Perhaps some day in the future you will be courting her.

 

[devilot]

Or you could have gotten her number, but that's so old fashioned. Perhaps some day in the future you will be courting her.

See, that's what bugs me about MySpace. Aside from young women/ girls showing the world how oversexualized they are and/or those who decide to lie about their ages, I don't mind that MySpace is an internet/online thing.

But it kills me that people who see each other in daily life, in physical face-to-face situations, would resort to MySpace and the really social ones will text message each other on their cells. I overheard this woman in one of my classes, she's been totally throwing herself at this one guy the whole semester. Finally she goes, "So what's your MySpace? Do you check yours often? I just killed like four hours on MySpace before class!" All this because they wanted to arrange a time to meet up at a coffee shop. What's wrong with talking?! DAH!

 

[bousozoku]

See, that's what bugs me about MySpace. Aside from young women/ girls showing the world how oversexualized they are and/or those who decide to lie about their ages, I don't mind that MySpace is an internet/online thing.

But it kills me that people who see each other in daily life, in physical face-to-face situations, would resort to MySpace and the really social ones will text message each other on their cells. I overheard this woman in one of my classes, she's been totally throwing herself at this one guy the whole semester. Finally she goes, "So what's your MySpace? Do you check yours often? I just killed like four hours on MySpace before class!" All this because they wanted to arrange a time to meet up at a coffee shop. What's wrong with talking?! DAH!

It's all about volume, getting to many people at nearly the same time. How can anyone possibly have thousands of friends and keep in contact with them? I knew someone who had something adding friends for him. His profile became a circus and a meeting place. He threatened to delete people but with so many on his list, he had no hope of finding them.

Then again, I've seen people sitting next to each other text messaging...each other.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Then again, I've seen people sitting next to each other text messaging...each other.

LOLZ.

My brother just got a $130 bill for stupid crap like that when he could've just IM'd them on Adium.

 

[bousozoku]

LOLZ.

My brother just got a $130 bill for stupid crap like that when he could've just IM'd them on Adium.

As I talk to a lot of student athletes, I'm amazed at how many parents have blocked text messaging because it's too easy to overdo it.

I originally added text messaging so that I could talk to deaf friends, but it is convenient when the computer doesn't have a connection. I've never tried to message anyone outside of the country, though and that could become expensive.

 

[solvs]

What's wrong with talking?! DAH!

We did, but I was leaving and didn't have a pen. Plus she was a little tipsy. And I was nervous. Told her I'd see her at their next concert, figured that was it. But there she was on the band's page when I messaged them back after they sent me a "thanks for coming" e-mail. Figured what the heck, so I sent her an add.

Apparently she was even more out of it than I thought, because I got the impression she didn't remember me. Ah well. Probably better off.

 

[DISCOMUNICATION]

I know I know

I completely understand all the hate of myspace, but as garish as those pimped pages are I've actually been able to find a lot of people I lost contact with. Once you graduate it's surprising to see who's moved where, wed, given birth, died, got a hair cut.

 

[solvs]

The only thing that really pisses me off about it is the spam. It's not as bad as my e-mail, but every once in awhile I get a message from some hot girl who wants me to buy insurance or pay for her porn site. One of them kept sending the same message as different users. I finally sent them a reply and it stopped. I wasn't mean, but I wasn't nice. Greedy bastards.

 

[Sirin]

Too limited? I think they give users too much freedom on customising their pages. I swear Safari has a hard time trying not to crash when reading some profiles on there due to the horrid horrid coding.

I can code up a PHP-based profile-blog-chat-myspace-thingy site in hours that FORCES them to use XHTML 1.1 STRICT.

 

[bousozoku]

The only thing that really pisses me off about it is the spam. It's not as bad as my e-mail, but every once in awhile I get a message from some hot girl who wants me to buy insurance or pay for her porn site. One of them kept sending the same message as different users. I finally sent them a reply and it stopped. I wasn't mean, but I wasn't nice. Greedy bastards.

Are you talking about the free webcam ladies?

They certainly show up unreliably these days. There was a week when I was getting messages from them every few hours. The spam link and block doesn't work all that well, apparently, but eventually someone gets rid of the account.

 

[yellow]

IMO, myspace has taken over from AIM as the bane of western internet civilzation.

For those haters out there, this myspace spoof is pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBOfD2JBv0w

 

[amateurmacfreak]

IMO, myspace has taken over from AIM as the bane of western internet civilzation.

Agreed. I don't think it's so bad.
And of course it's sort of a fad, and of course a lot of people do it.
But you're sort of missing the point of networking if you want to join some site that no one uses and no one knows about. Kind of defeats the purpose.

 

[solvs]

Are you talking about the free webcam ladies?

Yeah, them too. It's not often, but it's annoying. But seriously, one of them was trying to sell me car insurance. Meanwhile, nothing from the real girls I've actually met. Guess I'll have to wait until the next time I'm at a club or karaoke and they're drunk. Then they won't leave me alone. People wonder why I prefer the digital world sometimes.

 

[takao]

i have never heard about that site.. kinda strange.. i still haven't figured out what exatly it is.. it looks like some sort of internet single searching thing with all that profiles

 

[yellow]

Internet Meat Market.

 

[takao]

Internet Meat Market.

so i guess the nick "Top_Carnivore" is already taken (takao is already taken by some japanese guy.. just as usual )

i hate it when i have to think up a new nickname and can't reuse my first....