When Myspace rules the world

[Epic Reine 0]

Why, OH WHY, dear god, do people take this website so fucking seriously?

 

I hear people talking about it everyday in typical conversation. People talking about how they need new pictures for their myspace, people talking about how they should update their status from single to married, people talking about how they like to jerk off to said person's pictures.

 

It also ruins lives. I've seen friends and relationships crumble before my very eyes because of some comment person left or the fact that person X won't add person Y. Fucking ridiculous.

 

You also hear about people poking fun at it in media, merchandise has been made out of it, and pretty much all celebrities use it as a promotion tool nowadays (which I can understand since it's free exposure).

 

Now, what I don't understand is that it's a simple profile site. They've been around forever, It's not that much different from a blog site to be honest with you. A few years ago when livejournal and Xanga were popular you wouldn't hear anybody talking about them or making big deals about them besides the rare comment. What makes this site better? You post your favorite movies, music, and have a few pictures of yourself. No different from the average blog site.

 

Now, I have a myspace (big surprise there) but can't understand why people are so hung up about it. The other day a co-worker flat out said that "myspace ruins lives" and it kills me that people think that. I really hope this trend doesn't last long (or unfortunatley it will until the next cool blog site comes along).

[k thx 0]

Myspace has just taken off, for some unknown reason which will be debated on some 2000's retrospective in twenty years time.

 

It's now got to the point that if you meet someone, you assume they have a myspace. I met a chick in France and, instead of swpping e-mail addresses or numbers we found each other on myspace.

 

It's just omnipresent which, on the whole, is probably a good thing. It probably brings more people together than it pulls apart.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Luckily it seems to taper off in college, where people concern themselves more with facebook (as privacy-invasive as it might be now).

 

In high school friendships would end because "You moved me from fourth down to fifth on your top eight!"

[Guest Princess Leena]

It does ruin lives. Nothing was worse than having conversations with my friends about myspace. "Oh, she has soinso ahead of her! OMG! What's this loser doing on your list!"

 

Myspace is a fine tool for MEETING people. But, it's a poor place to communicate with friends. If that makes sense.

[k thx 0]

I moved halfway across England at the start of the year, and myspace has been really handy with keeping in tiouch with people I know. Because even people who don't normally go on the net have one, most everyone I know is there.

 

EDIT: Also, any friendship that ends because of their position in a top 8 is gonna end pretty quickly anyway for another reason.

[tominator89 0]

It does ruin lives. Nothing was worse than having conversations with my friends about myspace. "Oh, she has soinso ahead of her! OMG! What's this loser doing on your list!"

 

Myspace is a fine tool for MEETING people. But, it's a poor place to communicate with friends. If that makes sense.

 

I disagree with it being a poor place to communicate with friends. I use Myspace to keep in touch with friends of mine who moved across the country. It's probably not the best way to communication with acquiantances. But, for friends who actually know each other in real life it's not bad.

[Guest NYankees]

Myspace has become what classmates.com should have been.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I've made contact and reconncted with people I've lost touch with years ago because of myspace.

 

...not to mentioned I've gotten laid from meeting someone on myspace

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Also, about 99.9% of myspace pages are fucking awful. Some rap tune comes up, a bunch of flashy animations start, an endless stream of stupid "thanks 4 the add!" jpegs come up, and you can't even read the text because they used a terrible background color or picture, and half the links have weird animations added in. Just terrible.

[k thx 0]

Only people who use myspace to show how high a friends list they can get. If you use it to keep in touch with people you know/semi-know you're fine.

[The Niggardly King 0]

Myspace is a fine tool for MEETING people. But, it's a poor place to communicate with friends. If that makes sense.

 

That makes perfect sense.

 

I only liked the prospect of keeping in touch with old friends from high school. That's about it.

[1234-5678 0]

I am actually in a huge fight with my girlfriend right now over comments I left for friends of mine, female friends of mine, of course. It was the typical cliche comments "You look adorable" "You take the best pictures!" etc.

 

She doesn't see it that way however, and we've been fighting on and off for like a week........

 

Any ideas on how to fix this, lol.

[Art Sandusky 0]

USA Today ran a piece last week about how this form of human interaction is really, really flawed and a little unhealthy. I think it was last week anyway.

[Guest Princess Leena]

It is quite unhealthy. At least for females. Because most feel the need to put up ridiculous pics of themselves.

 

Plus, it doesn't help that our next generation is accepting the act as retarded as you possibly can phase.

[Hawk 34 0]

USA Today ran a piece last week about how this form of human interaction is really, really flawed and a little unhealthy. I think it was last week anyway.

 

I was going to mention that and wanted to include a link to the story but I couldn't find it. I remember also reading an article in that same publication a year ago about the dangers of personal infomation being divulged in Livejournals and Xanga's (which are more diary based, as opposed to Myspace which is just a social networking device) and how detailed young girls were about seemingly personal things like sex on such a public fourm.

 

I agree with the consensus that Myspace is unhealthy especially for young girls because they thrive off the idea that more friends on your list increases their value.

 

Girls have issues with self-esteem already, they really don't need some internet fad to bring more insecurity.

 

It also breeds new levels of stalkerdom, look how accessible we are to any person out there. I had a Myspace and I got so tired of people just adding me for no purpose other then inflating their superficial lists that i dropped it. I do have a facebook but I only have 10-12 people from my school (people I actually know, have classes with and commuicate with them regarding classes) and a couple old friends from high school.

 

I just chcked and I have 30 friend requests and I don't know a single person. Why are people so fascinated and obsessed with the # of fictional friends they have on their lists?

[Black Lushus 0]

my sister-in-law, rather than calling her friends directly to make plans for the evening, sends messages back and forth through MySpace and waits patiently for the answers...

[Dobbs 3K 0]

Yeah, I don't understand it. E-mail or instant messaging still work a hell of a lot better than trying to message people on Myspace. I find the whole Myspace site to be a bit clunky overall to use. I get lots of error messages trying to access certain pages, or trying to login from time to time.

 

This was brought up earlier, but I also hate how commercial Myspace has become. I understand advertising makes the world go 'round, but I'm not interested in sites for every single movie or musician or product out there. It's just ridiculous.

[k thx 0]

I am actually in a huge fight with my girlfriend right now over comments I left for friends of mine, female friends of mine, of course. It was the typical cliche comments "You look adorable" "You take the best pictures!" etc.

 

She doesn't see it that way however, and we've been fighting on and off for like a week........

 

Any ideas on how to fix this, lol.

Dump her.

 

I'm not even joking, she sounds like she has issues.

[Youth N Asia 0]

I am actually in a huge fight with my girlfriend right now over comments I left for friends of mine, female friends of mine, of course. It was the typical cliche comments "You look adorable" "You take the best pictures!" etc.

 

She doesn't see it that way however, and we've been fighting on and off for like a week........

 

Any ideas on how to fix this, lol.

 

 

My solution was to break up with my girlfriend.

 

I WAS IN THE EXACT SAME SITUATION!

 

I left a comment for a friend of mine months before I met my girlfriend and her reply was "So you can make comments on some slut's pics and not mine." And another one about my friend Melanie, leaving suggestive comments...which is the basis of our entire relationship.

 

My ex-girlfriend payed way too much attention to myspace and not enough to what was actually going on with us.

 

Thus, I am 5 days single

[snuffbox 0]

I fail to see how Myspace is such a horrible terrible entity.

[Guest]

I feel like I'm the only person in the entire world that doesn't have one. I know what I'm missing, so it's ok. I'd probably get one if the whole thing wasn't so overblown.

[Cartman 0]

Chances are if you are dating girls that get upset over myspace comments you are dating the wrong people. Girls tend to become lese sensitive and defensive when they get older, trust me.

[Slayer 0]

I did the LJ thing earlier this decade. I think I got all that out of my system, so I refuse to get a myspace.... I'm neither a teenage girl nor a complete tool, and also people from my past (most of) whom I do not wish to reassociate with would find it, and then most likely flood my comment section with "funny" internet pictures/anigifs/movies/whathaveyou

[Epic Reine 0]

Another thing that gets me is that I can't get over how fake the site is. A lot of girls post very decieving pics of themselves (like only on their face ot their huge double D tits despite the fact that they're fat as shit) and a lot of the people aren't what their site claims to be.

[Guest Princess Leena]

That's the main sad thing about myspace. It puts a lot of pressure on girls. Including me, and I'm just looking for the occasional casual date with some local boys. It's a glorified picture rating site that everyone must be a part of.

[1234-5678 0]

Jesus Leena, lol. It's exactly comments like that that are gonna get me castrated, lol. Luckily I deleted it before she saw it. You are too dangerous! We are no longer myspace friends! HA!

 

God I am pathetic

[Guest Princess Leena]

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[NoCalMike 0]

When I first made my myspace page, I figured it was a free way to accomplish what classmates.com was trying to charge for....so within the first few weeks I basically found the people I was looking for, and have their numbers/contact information, and thus I haven't updated and barely even look at my page anymore. Every once in awhile I will get a friend request from some band or some fake porn person, but that is standard I hear.

[NoCalMike 0]

That's the main sad thing about myspace. It puts a lot of pressure on girls. Including me, and I'm just looking for the occasional casual date with some local boys. It's a glorified picture rating site that everyone must be a part of.

 

 

Oh come on Leena, you are a young attractive woman. I have seen your page, with you overly-vain comments like "I am old and fat, oh and I just push up my boobs to make them look good" riiiiiiight. We all have seen myspace, and we have seen the ugly it can bring, and you don't even fall close to that category and you know it. Also, it sounds kind of contradictory because you post more pics of yourself on there then just about anyone else I have ever seen. Not to mention linking a page to a thousand more pics of yourself.

 

If you feel so pressured and insecure, you sure have a funny way of showing it by posting a shitload of pics on almost a daily basis.

[tominator89 0]

I haven't used Myspace for dating since there are very few normal females on there. The majority are either sluts who want attention or single mothers who want to brag about their kids.