amacgenius.com — Now, you use the internet, and I?m sure [most of you] go to a public school. Then you should know of or have heard of something called MySpace. In that case, I?m going to bet my 5? that you have an account there (before you flip on me for having one let me continue)...
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stephndolencNov 12, 2005
I like the enthusiasm, but somebody needs to right a refined, well written article discussing the true problems of myspace.+digg because this is a start in destroying myspace and getting the word out that it truely sucks
Closed AccountNov 12, 2005
What the hell is MySpace? I never figured this out. Best I can tell, it's a list of people you know who also have an account on MySpace. What the f**k is the point of this service?
stjoeNov 12, 2005
I know what MySpace is. It's a collaboration of websites with absolutely no content or point. There, that was easy.
finnianDec 5, 2005
Thank god. I thought I was crazy. My entire school has a myspace. I think I'm going to crack soon. Help me. Please.
chriscaudwellOct 27, 2006
The problems with MySpace are:1. It is owned by Rupert Murdoch who is responsible for bringing us Bill O'Reilly and everyone we hate over at FoxNews. Murdoch understands that the MySpace folks are his next generation of targets for advertising money so MySpace won't stay MySpace for long. It is going to morph into something else, something with more BS on it because this generation is his future cash cow. Thus, it has to morph into something more corporate. It simply has to. That is how he (and all the rest of the corporate gang) makes his money.2. MySpace makes you stupid. Like every other sensational aspect of our drive thru society, MySpace makes you pay intellectually (if, that is, you have anything to give to begin with). For every piece of information worth something on MySpace, you have to see a hundred stupidly ridiculous pages and watch 10,000 even more ridiculous (not to mention annoying) advertisement banners.3. Kids are being targeted in an unprecedented manner. MySpace makes it easy for, older folks to target naive youngsters. Paying them compliments, using the pics kids put up to share with friends, adults target them for exploitation.And please, don't pretend #3 doesn't happen a lot. It does.So there are a few arguments against MySpace (just off the top of my head) which is obviously a bad idea. Oh. I guess I should add a 4th, which should be obvious but might not be.4. MySpace isn't really that great just like McDonald's hamburgers aren't as good as the one I can make at home. The only reason MySpace has caught on to the degree that it has is because it is constantly appearing in the paper and in television ads and tv news stories and internet news stories. The problem with this is that it isn't getting favorable press because of its merit. It's getting good press because a media billionaire owns it and is giving it good press. The hype generated around MySpace is just that, being artificially generated. This may come across like bulls**t for those of you that like MySpace. But a few people actually like the McDonald's hamburger, too. But everyone knows that the real appeal of McDonald's isn't that it's good food but that it's everywhere. Increasingly the same situation with MySpace. It's not the product, it's the image.And finally, I predict that in the future, MySpace will become a conservative news portal aimed at selling corporate products and corporate values to the millions of currently teenagers and early 20somethings that populate it. If you want another 20 million of the next generation transformed into corporate drones that praise whoever becomes the next George Bush just like the FoxNews generation of Americans do now, keep using MySpace because that is exactly what it is going to try and create.
that1fatguyFeb 12, 2007
Myspace is a cancerous tumor upon society that make all jock cheerleaders emos goths and nerds into the exact same thing. it is a tool used by the government to turn us all into the same people so they can control us.
xzanabarxFeb 14, 2007
Yeah I know what you mean. All my friends told me to make one because they wanted to keep in touch and I thought "Whatever happened to email?" If one of my friends were to move they could still email me, you know?. I made one but got bored of it really fast, all there is to do on there is comment or message and since I have a dial up connection I can't listen to music on there (not like its great anyway). But yeah there really seems to be no point, because as long as you have an email, its all good, you know?
xzanabarxFeb 14, 2007
Its something to do with "popular" once the jocks and cheerleaders make one, the whole school follows to keep up with the trend. -.-