moneydick.com— Using the power of Google searches, it's possible to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity and swamp of degenerate youth. A depressing study of a hilarious problem.
Apr 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
myspace deserves my contempt, but i have to agree with those who commented above on the unforgivably unscientific and myopic nature of this analysis (that's prolly why this story was buried). nonetheless, there is significance to it, but i feel it was more the result of someone who is sick of not being able to really explain why myspace is such a "horrible" place to someone else. i'm sure everyone who dislikes myspace have had that experience to varying degree (usually depending on well that person knows u). what better and easier way than to compile a bunch of numbers for that purpose!now i would like to get my own opinion in here:for a moment, let's put aside important and even relevant things like "simply expressing oneself", "a waste of life", "blowing off steam", "social catalyst", "the role of parents", etc... a debate based on those views will get nowhere, because there is truth in all of them. but we don't need any more relative truths.i feel the problem is that myspace has no "role models" (in quotes because i don't mean only ppl are role models), nothing higher for users to aspire to than who they are themselves. truth to tell, growing up is tough, and it's important to gain, retain, and continually refine that "higher" perspective relative to where u are (something that hopefully each person defines for themselves). myspace, unfortunately, offers an environment in which users are typically surrounded by mirror reflections of themselves; an environment that vindicates who each user is relative to others like him/her.that is, if you have "high standards", myspace can theoretically be a very stimulating place (e.g. for the bands.. well, at least some of them). however, if you have "low standards", myspace turns into the swamps, a concentration of a type of confusion in which questions answer themselves.in all fairness, i think that's the challenge we are going to have to face in any social medium, whether in myspace or at the office. it just so happens it's easier for myspace to be in the dumps.
i agree with you here forkburn01. And it is very sad that there are very few role models left anywhere in society. I am glad that i had my father to look up to when i was younger. I think that myspace probably is also a bit of a backlash from the abscence of rolemodels. If i can't look up to someone i'll look side to side.
I've found Myspace to be useful in a number of ways. It is a great promotional tool an even better [business] networking tool. Not to mention, it provides a simplified means for getting in touch with old friends. Myspace is like all other Internet technology. It's all in how you use it.
Even though the article states all over the place it's scientific and "highly scientific" (whatever that means) I fail to see the science in it. Doing bunch of Google searches with site constrained to my space is far from scientific. Get a life and move on, it's long known that myspace is what Geocities was in late 90's
starmanjonesApr 23, 2006
OMG... its religion.
sembetuApr 23, 2006
In Soviet Russia Humanity is a waste of My Space.
forkburn01Apr 23, 2006
myspace deserves my contempt, but i have to agree with those who commented above on the unforgivably unscientific and myopic nature of this analysis (that's prolly why this story was buried). nonetheless, there is significance to it, but i feel it was more the result of someone who is sick of not being able to really explain why myspace is such a "horrible" place to someone else. i'm sure everyone who dislikes myspace have had that experience to varying degree (usually depending on well that person knows u). what better and easier way than to compile a bunch of numbers for that purpose!now i would like to get my own opinion in here:for a moment, let's put aside important and even relevant things like "simply expressing oneself", "a waste of life", "blowing off steam", "social catalyst", "the role of parents", etc... a debate based on those views will get nowhere, because there is truth in all of them. but we don't need any more relative truths.i feel the problem is that myspace has no "role models" (in quotes because i don't mean only ppl are role models), nothing higher for users to aspire to than who they are themselves. truth to tell, growing up is tough, and it's important to gain, retain, and continually refine that "higher" perspective relative to where u are (something that hopefully each person defines for themselves). myspace, unfortunately, offers an environment in which users are typically surrounded by mirror reflections of themselves; an environment that vindicates who each user is relative to others like him/her.that is, if you have "high standards", myspace can theoretically be a very stimulating place (e.g. for the bands.. well, at least some of them). however, if you have "low standards", myspace turns into the swamps, a concentration of a type of confusion in which questions answer themselves.in all fairness, i think that's the challenge we are going to have to face in any social medium, whether in myspace or at the office. it just so happens it's easier for myspace to be in the dumps.
Closed AccountApr 23, 2006
i agree with you here forkburn01. And it is very sad that there are very few role models left anywhere in society. I am glad that i had my father to look up to when i was younger. I think that myspace probably is also a bit of a backlash from the abscence of rolemodels. If i can't look up to someone i'll look side to side.
Closed AccountApr 23, 2006
There are 85 instances of "I am Hitler" on MySpace, but only one on Digg.Let's see if we can change that!
soulsizzleApr 23, 2006
I've found Myspace to be useful in a number of ways. It is a great promotional tool an even better [business] networking tool. Not to mention, it provides a simplified means for getting in touch with old friends. Myspace is like all other Internet technology. It's all in how you use it.
oyamApr 24, 2006
Even though the article states all over the place it's scientific and "highly scientific" (whatever that means) I fail to see the science in it. Doing bunch of Google searches with site constrained to my space is far from scientific. Get a life and move on, it's long known that myspace is what Geocities was in late 90's