MySpace News
Goodness. You know a website has gotten HUGELY popular with the kiddies, when "cheat sheets for parents," like this one from Wired, are being published. Like the chat rooms of the 90’s, MySpace has become big enough to incur parents’ fear. The schools are blocking the site at the firewall, the predators are surfing the kids’ profiles, and the nightly news is warning all of the newest online danger. MySpace became popular because of its music scene and customizable profiles, and once EVERYBODY went on MySpace, so did you (unless you’re boycotting on principle). MySpace is the site of the ’00s (what are we calling this decade, anyway?), and honestly, that’s quite a shame. It’s so old-school that it looks like a throwback to Web 1.0: you can copy and paste HTML code to jazz up your profile? Go blind watching blinking flashy banner ads? Fall asleep to the loading of pages so slow it’s reminiscent of dial-up? Deal with bugs and broken features so often it has become part of the MySpace experience?
For all the glitz and glamour surrounding us bleeding-edge bloggers cheering on the Web 2.0 company du jour, the fact is, the majority of the population is years behind us, having just discovered personalized pages and, wow!, social networking.
So, anyway, yeah, I’m on there.
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Have you watched the MySpace movie?
I hate almost everything about MySpace. Including the fact that I’m on it too.
Being on MySpace was a dark secret I hid from those closest to me, including my roommate. Until I discovered he had a MySpace page. A big part of Scott Farrell’s internet campaign strategy involves MySpace: eg. we already get more site visitors from MySpace than Google and Yahoo combined and we’re not even pushing content there yet.
I imagine that MySpace is old school enough for the Web 1.0 curmudgeon in all of us, with enough “new” features to bring in new eyeballs. That and it’s owned by good old Rupert Murdoch.
Yeah, I have one too… and so does my 12 year old sister. And her photos page is pretty scary if you think a dirty old man is looking at it. At least her’s is private and friends only… but is there a way for creeps to get around that?
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great description of myspace … this would definitely be why i never signed up for it.
so glad to see your blog while surfing again after the fricking disaster that is/was blogexplosion.
i had my space for the past 7 months and i was able to realized that all it brings is drama i got over 20352 views is incridble how much people want to know about you is pathetic knowing that people that dont likle just go to your page and see what you are up to….. that why i decided to close my account and i could happily say that there is no more drama in my life and trust me is not a big deal.
u suck at lifeeee!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!