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What's so wrong about MySpace?
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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.
I think it's overall bunk though.
I HATE when a page plays music when you load it too.
UGH.
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).
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.calebjohnston said:
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.
elfin buddy said: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.
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.
skipskop24 said:
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 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 simply sticks to the default MySpace layout.
Why so much hatred??? Geez you must have had a real tough time in high school/college.
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 simply sticks to the default MySpace layout.
Onizuka said:
Why so much hatred??? Geez you must have had a real tough time in high school/college.
yellow said: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.
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.
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.
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....
"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....
iGary said:
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.
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!
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!
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.iGary said:
yellow said:Home based proxy servers are a wonder of modern technology.
As Samuel Jackson said: "English; do you speak it mother****er?"
God-damned techies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
efoto said: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
if you change the settings you can make your profile privite until you approve them
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.skipskop24 said:
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.
jaydub said:
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...
Blue Velvet said:
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