I don’t think I’ll ever be able to adequately explain just how stupid MySpace is.
And by stupid, I mean: dumb, immature, silly, and generally any other description that means not good.
I don’t understand the draw. I don’t understand why people between the ages of 13 and 25 flock to that site like it’s the holy mecca of the internet. I know there are people who spent 1+ hours a day there. And I don’t get it. I mean, how many comments can you leave your friends?
I have a MySpace page. I won’t lie to you. But, I signed up for it because I had a friend who apparently couldn’t check his email. Even though it was a Hotmail account. He told me that I should get a MySpace page so that I could message him and the like. So I did. And then random people from high school found me.
At first, I thought “hey, that’s kind of cool.” But, they don’t leave me comments. I don’t leave them comments. They don’t send me messages. I don’t send them messages. I do get sent the mass chain-mail bulletins that everyone sends everyone else. Not that I read them.
The thing that bothers me the most, I think, is that no one actually reads my page. I have stated quite plainly that I won’t add people as friends unless I know them in real-life. And yet, I get “Friend Requests” from my sister’s friends, from random people who live near me, from the loser pub down the street (and, why does a pub need a MySpace page?), and generally random people.
I might possibly have the smallest friend’s list on MySpace, with only 9 friends, none of which I requested myself. Which is funny, since I don’t talk to any of them except my sister and Matt-Matt. I just don’t understand why people spend so much time on one page, and why they would limit their internet to just this one site.
Oh, and the shitty blogs! Don’t get me started on them…. But then again, I’m loyal to WordPress like nothing else.
So, please, for the love of god, don’t use MySpace. Get yourself a free BlogSpot account or something else. But I just can’t stand to look at bad 1992 HTML on the MySpace pages anymore. I thought we got rid of that crap ages ago, but it just keeps making a comeback.
And please, don’t leave me a comment, send me a message, or send a friend request to me through MySpace. Leave comments on my blog. Email me messages. And, if you have to request to be someone’s friend, maybe you should think about what that means. I know I’m not asking to be anyone’s friend, and you shouldn’t have to either.
- “Worried Eyes,” Desireless: Eagle Eye Cherry
I have a myspace too and wrote about how I hate Myspace vehemently on my blog here. Pretty good conversation going on on that post too. We’re not the only ones who hate Myspace. I redesigned mine because I coudn’t stand the way the default style is. But I firmly believe that it’s that crappy design that attracts many teens to the site. Also, there’s some sort of weird social hierarchy there. The more friends you have the “cooler” you’re perceived as being. That’s probably why you get so many friend requests.
Until I read your post, I had never been to My Space. I checked it out (briefly) and don’t see what all the fuss is about, either.
I forgot to mention that last semester MySpace was banned from campus computers because it sucked too much of the college-district’s bandwidth (So they said… I can’t find an online copy of the article from the school’s paper.) Whatever the real reason was, I’m not surprised. Whenever I went into the library, nearly everyone on a computer was surfing MySpace. Didn’t anyone have any real work to do?
I have myspace, and i don’t use it. The only reason I have it is to keep in touch with people from back in Olean, and all they do is make stupid, vulgar comments on my page. And these are people I know!
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