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- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+87I'm 15 and and so damn tired of my friends going "Omg Dan! You Need To Make A Myspace! Its so Cool!".. All myspace is, is a crappy blog with 12 year old sluts and 52 year old 14 year olds...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+61At least facebook keeps the 12 year olds out.
- queefer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+46Who needs myspace, just learn to code and make your own webpage.
- applextrent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36There are other reasons to quit MySpace as well, http://www.trentl.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50. For example, did you know the company that owned half of MySpace was the spyware supplier in Kazaa? Or, that the CEO of MySpace was in an investment group who's CEO was in jail for investment fraud? The truth is much more compelling than this article.
- cpthorfe, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36Social networking is for people who are looking for a social life, ie young people.
Most of us are already more "social" than we ever wanted to be... - commongiga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30I think a lot of you missed the point of the story. His point in the end was that we have these internet legacies, but what happens if we die? It's really a sad thing when a personal page gets turned into a shrine of sorts. Do you really want people reading your facebook page after you die?
Very thought provoking and well written article. - alphatally, on 10/12/2007, -6/+31Who knows for how long though. I heard they are already adding high schools.
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Don't forget a pedophile's paradise ;)
- lonelycanuck, on 10/12/2007, -19/+43Facebook all the way!
http://www.facebook.com - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I am 16 and i reguallary tell everyone that myspace sucks, and they usally agree but use it all the time.
as a potintial webdesiger im not sure which i hate more myspace or frontpage. - retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I bet that 52 year old guy can't complain either. He probably enjoyed it even more than you did! =P
- MrTranscendence, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"Don't forget a pedophile's paradise ;)"
"'m 15 ..."
So, uh, wanna grab a bite to eat later? - titaniumdecoy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+27MySpace is gay.
- eod_punk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16For me to committe myspacecide I would first have to join it. I can't stand the thought of it, so I choose not to be born.
- ErrandboyOfDoom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14If mySpace is so customizable, why is it I've yet to see a mySpace page that doesn't look like *****?
Can we just get a clean looking, open, machine-readable FOAF architecture without ads? Is anyone working on that? - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I like you, a lot.
Same issues, but I'm a year older.
Digg is about as 'social' website as I'll get. IM is enough for me, thank you. - stou, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Yea except for the fact that the facebook was started by money from a venture capital firm with ties to the CIA.
http://digg.com/security/Facebook_s_CIA_ties - coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I think just about anyone registered on any site is googleable. Heck, putting in your name I found your blogspot, your buzznet, and some old post on a forum. :D
Hell no i'm not a stalker, just had to take the challenge.
Also, on subject, I think the large amount of people on myspace is it's downfall as well as it's only plus. There are plenty of idiot kids out there fouling up the internet, they just happen to collect at myspace. The format of the site is admittedly ugly, but if one really wants to put some effort into it, their myspace page is totally configurable.
Basically what i'm saying is steer clear of the emo-kids and myspace is a decent place to get in touch with people you haven't talked to in a while. - nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19Getting tail from a Myspacette is nothing to brag about. Honestly. Ew.
- Rmplstltskn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Amen to that. I never quite understood myspace in that respect. "It's like this...community, and it's...online. And everything is all...connected, like, linked together." Ummm, kind of like the Internet?
- slugicide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"52 year old 14 year olds" Nice.
- StickWST, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Myspace blows, and mainly because of how generic it is, as a graphic designer, the look of peoples profiles sickens me, and all those pre-made sparkly text images, YUCK! And my friends just got himself and possibly me in an ass-load of trouble by releasing information about us, then his parents decided to look through his profile....yeah.
- Xevallah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Digg is populated by 15/16 year olds? Jesus.
- slugicide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is funny. When I read that article this afternoon it was the little push I needed to do what I'd wanted to do for a while. I went to MySpace.com and deleted my account. Then, I went to my blog and stated what I'd done, tagging it with "myspacecide" in the hopes of contributing to a mass exodus. I would list all the reasons why MySpace sucks, but, you know, no one really cares.
- SeveredDigit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7myspace = the downfall of creativity...the sad part is a whole new gerneration of kids is gonna grow up thinking this is what the internet is and what it should look like . No I Don't wanna be your friend and your band sucks sh@t
- LordVoldemort, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Interesting how people assume those leaving comments are of the same age; I would venture to say that most people on the internet are young people anyway. "No Mom. Single click internet links, double click files/folders."
- Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"If mySpace is so customizable, why is it I've yet to see a mySpace page that doesn't look like *****?"
Here here!
What I don't understand about MySpace, at all, is the fact that it's not customisable! MySpace has NOTHING on there for customising your own profile - you have to go to a third party site (of varying degrees of crappyness) to get some CSS that you put in your about box.
Clunky as *****!
I only have a MySpace account because the majority of my friends do, my profile looks bland but at least people can read the text - why they'd want to is another matter.
Wrote up a massive entry on the MySpace blog too about how crap it is. Not gonna link it though... - pmcall221, on 10/12/2007, -12/+19Is it just me or is every singe Wired news story making the digg front page. If I want to read Wired, I'll go to wired.com. Next people will be submitting every CNN story. I digg for the news that isn't found elsewhere.
- compuguy1088, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If you want a real blog, using something professional like Blogger, or Wordpress, those are real blogging software, myspace isn't that at all.
- Unicyclelarry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7[rant]
I wholeheartedly agree. I too am 16 and my cousin convinced me to make a MySpace. He said it would be an easy way to keep in contact with my family after I move out of state this summer. Having little to no experience with MySpace beforehand I agreed to make one. I realize now, though, that the way one keeps in contact on MySpace is through comments and messages. If you are just going to send me a message send me an e-mail! If you want to post a comment, post a comment on my blog or something. If I feel compelled to post pictures I'll set up a flickr account. About the only thing that MySpace provides is a means of searching for a particular person. I could probably find the MySpace for just about everyone I have ever known. But, you know what? I was able to track down just about everyone I know using Google and quotation marks.
[/rant] - SeveredDigit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Delete Yourself, You have no chance to win !!
- bothunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5My age in Myspace is set to 23, and yet I get ads for joining AARP... I think that's a little more than disturbing There must be large demographic of retired men who join Myspace and say they're in their early 20s.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Another sex perv caught crawling myspace for young girls, only this time he found a catch. This will be another headliner "MySpace Ate my Brains!"
http://www.komotv.com/stories/43115.htm - karel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm basically ungooglable. I don't have a myspace account, and every other community website I belong to doesn't' have my full name (sometimes not even my first name). Anywhere. Mainly because I'm paranoid. I don't mind being a part of online communities, but I don't want some random nut-job showing up at my front door. And the idea of existing as a digital page only gives me the heebie jeebies. I'm sure it would give some solace to my friends and family however.
- Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Same situation man myspace ruins lives my freind got all emo becuase his ''girlfreind'' took him off her top eight.....
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There are lots of reasons to hate MySpace, or at least see it as irrelevant.
I deleted my account when 16-year-old girls, knowing full well from my profile that I am 30, messaged me about "hooking up."
Scary stuff. - Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@daRoach:
Oh yes. They were so impressed that I could drive a car, too.
That's why I... deleted my account.
*****. - robert3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It was kind of weird seeing people posting comments on the person's profile that was deceased. I'll have it in my will that any accounts I have online be closed by my family. I'm not interested in being a "digital ghost."
- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8So did you hook up?
- SeveredDigit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7the single best self-promotion tool for independent artists is the Internet...not some crap interface that limits you to the amount of music you can put up and as well limits yer creativity as far as how you can set it up....nevermind having to put up with the shameless spam-whores who sit on there all day thinking the more they spam they're crap band the sooner they will be rock stars... Secondly any independent musician out there will tell you that the real way to promote yourself it to play shows and tour and not suck :)
- ehmjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow! I didn't realize Momus was into such big things as Wired magazine. I'm going to have to agree with him though, Myspace is a little piece of hell.
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am just happy to know that samy is my hero and myspace sucks.
- makey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sometimes duplicates happen, when I posted this story, however, I did not see any.
- zachg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think the patent paranoia that is rife in the article is a great reason why people like this should be ignored. This guys' opinion is not informed outside of his existence as a nominal social figurine with some inconsequential amount of celebrity. What is inherently bad about an internet social network? Bashing myspace, without sufficient theory to back it up, is like people who were afraid of telephones. This is yet another example of human beings' fear of a materialising future.
It's easy to label things as stupid, or trendy because they're used by people that one has an adverse disposition towards. It is difficult to honor the worth of that which is "corrupted" by those whom you despise. It boils down to the human condition, and it's pervasiveness in all things, and whether or not a person can make a genuine assessment of something before reacting.
If you're dead you have no concerns--you're not even human--it's not like you go to heaven and look down on your myspace page. - crazyclones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4what about *****.com?
- Henge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I recently joined myspace.com, although after much hesitation. I'd seen myspace.com pages before and they're rather ugly, unintuitive, and often hard to read. I think myspace is a cool idea, but for apparently for me it's a no-go. I'm still a member, but have come very very close to deleting my account (we're talking like, a half-hour after signing up.) Therefore, I totally hear where this guy is coming from. I have no desire to interact with anyone else on myspace; it's too much time and work i could be spending on other, more entertaining, though equally unproductive projects. Anyways, good story.
- mistercharlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that mydeathspace is just friggin creepy.
for all the myspace flames i see in here, i am surprised they are doing 1.5 billion views daily. evidently not too much of a cross section between digg and myspace users. - d3bruts1d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Best post I have ever seen on Digg.
Mod up! - kflasch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I don't really see why people slag MySpace. Sure, there are lots of younger people (so?) and immature people (a matter of perspective), but are you forced to contact them? I sure am not.
I like the site. I can remain in contact with people and find people I have lost contact with. I agree the aesthetics of the profiles are atrocious, but so what? I don't have to look at peoples' profiles. There is zero hassle and zero effort involved in using it for what I think are its main strengths. I guess I have absolutely no problem using the same service that people wildly outside my age bracket and interests use as well, since I have no need to interact with them if I don't want to. -
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