publications.mediapost.com — MySpace is no longer a social site, corporate spam-peddlers have taken over. Fake celebrity profiles, corporations posing as 13 yr-old girls to sell products, and a growing flood of ads is too much even for undemanding, noobish MySpace users. If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL.
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chaduSep 2, 2006
is the rest of you straight?
nightowl313Sep 2, 2006
Wait! Did you just say what I think you said? "MySpace just happens to be this generation's forum."Let it be said, right here and now, that myspace has never, and will never be the forum of ANY generation—least of all mine.Please god, PLEASE don't let future generations think of mine as the myspace generation. If this is going to happen, just kill me now.
tetsuwanSep 2, 2006
MySpace has a big problem with spam, and I regularly get friend requests from fake profiles too. But that would happen on any site as popular as MySpace, I think.I use the site mostly for music, it works great for finding and keeping track of new and interesting artists.
llanSep 2, 2006
I only check MySpace-sites if they are band homepages, because you can easily listen to 3 or 4 full-length tracks, often of new material and it is easy to find and to play. But I hate the whole social bulls**t around it, with six hundred giant user pictures loading and what not.Does anyone know of a service that takes the media players from band homepages and nothing else? That would be great, I really want a service that allows that kind of listening but nothing else, especially not videos.
randal2kSep 2, 2006
ugh... so sick of hearing about pedophiles, bad parenting, social blah blah and idiots that post pictures with guns/boobs/whatever!The truth of it is, that Myspace became a large gathering of Data-mine-able information, It fosters all the right people for malware/spyware and ad campaigns through, add me tactics. we all know this and it should come as no surprise. It was a successful experiment, and made the creators some good money. It is impossible for me to you Myspace, the bad color schemes, the insane animated gifs, the stupid Music and videos, it's like walking back into Geocities circa 1992.So, am i glad that it's going this way? Sure am. The sooner MySpace dives the better.Funniest thing, my wifes younger cousins came over, and now i have Myspace IM on the "for firiends PC" LOL... and thanks to there browsing habits and Myspace use, Adaware cleaned 148 items.
blanktargetSep 2, 2006
What a dumb story. I don't know what you use your myspace for but I keep in touch with friends from High School since we scattered across the country years ago. I also am able to post bulletins for when I'm having a party or something. Honestly what's up with so many digg stories lately just being overdramatic sensational bullcrap.
aaronmtSep 2, 2006
Regardless, there are a handful of MySpace clones and once one is dropped another five spawn.Social websites are here to stay.
link12Apr 16, 2007
Yeah myspace was like awesome in the beginning, but like everything the news got a hold of it and destroyed it...everyone joined made it slow. spammers spamed. moms and dads joined. government joined i mean....its sad...how something so awesome is now slow and crappy