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- falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -2/+127...or you can just not use Myspace and avoid the troubles all together.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+94Why do you blame this on perverts? What MySpace users are increasingly upset about is the "stealth marketing" corporations are doing on the site. They pose as individuals and then send spam to their "friends." That's in addition to the regular ads and overt marketing going on there.
Kids don't like this corporate crap, they're going to leave and only the spammers are going to be left, spamming each other back and forth. - endtwist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75"If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL."
You mean it will slowly crash and burn, eventually (and invariably) leading to its death? Oh my, how terrible that would be!
;) - blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58I think Tom could care less about the site now, he already made out with over half a billion dollars.
- nwshc, on 10/12/2007, -12/+64***** Myspace
- falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53Tom (or whoever is running the show) seriously needs to clean up their act... and fast. First of all, I say they re-write the entire code. This will eliminate many of the exploits these marketers use to advertise their spam. Also, Myspace won't look like crap anymore!
- stormchickx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47So what else is new? This bs is happening pretty much everywhere.
- wicked9, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47this of course doesn't apply to digg....
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Myspace has already gone the way of AOL: Things I don't let near my computer.
- JimV, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39Two words for MySpace:
Good riddance.
Two words for Tom:
"Cut" and "Run" - platypotamus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42and yet it is still the ugliest damn website on the entire internet.
- VSKBadCRC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36"it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL."
Is that really such a bad thing? - SueprSheepdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37no more was needed
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36And then release the search records of its user.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Here's the problem:
The site was made on crappy coding, grew too fast, and now is not worth the cost to re-program it into something that wont have new vulnerabilities found by 10 year olds every week. - Dakana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29You can't re-code Myspace using semantic and efficient CSS. The millions of Myspace profiles that people have hacked and tweaked (and added 7,293 embedded flash and video objects to) exist because they call on the literally hundreds of inefficient existing CSS classes Myspace uses. If you change those and make a site that DOESN'T have six nested tables (yes, six, I counted in the comment space), almost everyone's layout will be completely altered, and the outcry of the millions will echo off of the moon, bounce back towards the earth, and send us hurtling towards the sun.
- fatalfury, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I much prefer facebook
- cozinator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24No, News Corp did.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23A pedophile?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23you mean there will be a quitting fee?
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Every site has it's time in fame, it's finally time for this one's to end.
- NOFXY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22What if you just stick to your "circle of trust"? Myspace users have a group of family/friends they know and trust. If you don't add anyone else you don't know and just ignore the ads (adblock or simply overlooking them) aren't you relatively safe? Same thing is happening with email and spam but i don't see it going anywhere fast (thanks to spam filters).
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Lol, if the Spyware detection in AOL really worked, it would remove itself!!
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL" quick... DON'T DO ANYTHING!
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26Digg is rapidly approaching the point where a significant number of the frontpage articles are simply spam.
If they don't change the frontpage algorithm soon, they'll become as useful for social bookmarking as vanilla Google for search: worse than useless. (And don't give me that personalized search *****, i don't have to sacrifice my privacy to get accurate results on the other search engines). - cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20MySpace is going to start mailing out cds?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"***** Myspace" Eww, who would want to?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21News Corp (read Fox) bought Myspace, not AOL (read Time-Warner)
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Darn I still haven't gottent to 150,000 friends.
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Think about it too long and your head starts to hurt.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"I think Tom could care less about the site now, he already made out with over half a billion dollars." -- blapierre
I'm pretty sure Tom sold it to some company for just under $12 million and then that company later sold it for $580 million to News Corp. - chadu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13is the rest of you straight?
- darkmotion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16:) doesn't change anything for me. Myspace is still the scum of the internet. Poorly designed profiles of people with uninteresting generic lives... hahah :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17"I think Tom could care less about the site now, he already made out with over half a billion dollars."
Why make billions when you can make...millions? - ScottDaMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I use MySpace as a free classmates.com and it has been awesome for that. Other than that, I'm never on it.
- maxplanar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I'm sorry, but MySpace is now, and has always been, total bollocks. There's just something so terribly....nooby about it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Waitaminute! You mean you're not my friend!? What happened to all of the great Carls, Jr. burger offers you sent me?... and, and... the fantastic 'Treasure Trooper' comraderie? Snif.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Sweet. Here's hoping to end of a stupid, brain-rottening service.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Yes, but kids and teens don't know that (some adults aren't too bright either). They're easy to fool. They see a celeb name or a hot chic and lose their mind. Next they're giving out credit card numbers and nude photos of themselves to some fat bald guy in Romania.
- el_jefe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Myspace is to the net as Jerry springer is to TV.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I don't see it on digg, but when Kevin and the gang designed digg they probably thought of spammers before the site was even launched.
- bonus45, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Why do My Space articles keep appearing in tech ? There's nothing tech about it. Keep this garbage in Entertainment where it belongs.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's a little known fact, but when you click the title of the post, this thing called an article comes up. It often goes into deeper detail about the claims made in the description. Didn't you always wonder why it was called a description, yet you couldn't find what it was describing?
- hawk27, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16MYSPACE IS GAY.
- animecrazy9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14It's not really "stealth marketing". Its pretty obvious when some spam/scam/ad/***** wants to be your friend. Just look at their page before accepting, or only accept people you know. Just don't be an idiot.
Alas, that seems to be the entire problem with MySpace :( - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You really don't mind people knowinghow sad your life is?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Good. That site is garbage anyway. It's a surprise it ever became popular in the first place.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@zblackeagle
No, no, they're frisbees! And they double as sibling repellent devices when in large enough supply to threaten. - everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And nothing of value was lost...
- alexgreggs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10ZThe half billion was for the parent company, after all was said and done Tom made out with 75 Mill.....Still not bad!!
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