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MySpace users to get their own cell phones

msnbc.msn.com — The social networking site MySpace, hugely successful among teenagers and twenty-somethings, is about to become more ubiquitous with the launch of a cellular service that will let users read and post to the site for free.

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14i wonder if it will have the lol and omfg buttons?
  • trenchcoatjedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This may just prove to be the downfall of western civilization. Amusing ourselves to death.
  • UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that phone isn't emo enough!
  • br0ken1128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
    Myspace is slow and buggy enough as is, it gets better when kids are off to school and the load drops down.. but noooo, now they'll be able to sneak on to myspace at all hours of he day, crippling the service and making it suckier than it already is.

    Seriously, I think myspace is a cool idea, but I hate the fact that it's written in coldfusion and dog slow most of the time.

    Also, I found that if you're in certain zipcodes, the notifications don't work .. my notifications stopped working months ago, I changed my zipcode to 90210 and viola, email notifications now work.
  • System84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just say no to Myspace
  • lazyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Myspace phone...

    I guess if I was in my 50s and wanted 12 year old girls, I would find this very useful.
  • dhoefler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"My phone is more emo than your phone".
  • firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, Myspace giving out cellphones? I thought I could get a few and blow them up. Too bad they're not free (point? Nice misleading title).

    Yeah, we all hate it when people talk on their phones in public. Now this is going to get even worse. OMFG!!! DID YOU SEE PINK FLOYD'S MYSPACE!!?!?!?!? IT'S SO COOL!!!! I JUST HAD TO SAY THAT!!! AND LOOK! I CAN DO MYSPACE ON MY CELLPHONE!!!! I AM SOOOO COOL!!!!!

    Yeah, the decline of humanity is continuing to go down...
  • _skin_, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3DIE MYSPACE!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1god damn emo kids....
  • MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
    What a festering pile of ***** MySpace is.

    @Zivilyn

    I will have to agree. The internet used to be a nice escape from the ***** mindless cows representing the majority of humanity. At least they are spending most of their pathetic lives at MySpace and sites like it. I also agree that MySpace is the new "AOL". It's one big Cyb3r fest were 23 year old guys post sexual inuendo to pages owned by 13 year old girls who act like dirty sluts.



  • SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1awesome...now I can show everyone how many friends I have!!!!!! Sweet!!!!
  • spectrum21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1god help us all...
  • popltree2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@fredw
    My guess is "canned-emo". Whenever they are getting to happy or not depressed about something, they drink a can of it and they become instantly depressed and start listening to Dashboard.
  • simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a horrible age to live in. All the girls are sluts and all the guys are jerks, where are the normal people? :

    I seriously blame myspace.
  • serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah, after the comment above me, I instantly pictured the old perverted guy from Family Guy.
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  • runawayhorses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and they will probably include a complimentary condom....
  • retawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Right now some reeeeeeeeeeeeeally creepy old guy is buying up a bunch of cell phones to give out to the little kiddies on Halloween.
  • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why is this site so controversial? I find it irrelevent.
  • hordak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Already possible with Opera Mini!
  • serra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great, make it so that ***** idiots are more readily available to each other. I wonder how many more murders there will be because of these phones.
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  • willlangford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think MySpace wants to dominate the word! This is kind of scary. But honestly I don't think the site is that cool. It just is a huge popularity contest with people to see how many friends they can get. Then people who I know but never talk to try to be all nice and stuff..F them anyway check out my article on MySpace vs. MSN of 5 years ago..

    http://willlangford.com/2006/02/01/myspace-the-msn-of-20056/
  • thewhitefedora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Somebody hurry up and destroy myspace!!!
  • McZiggz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cyworld is a lot bigger than myspace comparatively.
  • aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what ever happened to like... you know...


    face2face?

    hanging out?
  • mp94564, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0myspace is GAY!
  • mrm52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My space is complete garbage.
  • slackor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Myspace should spend some time working on fixing their ***** servers.

    Also most profiles are so overloaded the videos and crazy css code that that are unreadable.
  • AnimeRules15421, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that is a lame idea. Event though I use my space.
  • sWeEtReVeNgE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crap, just another thing that you have to have to be "kool".


    Myspace suks!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • mp817, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Myspace phone: The teeny bopper and scenester's dream come true.
  • cdcarter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"myspace is GAY!"

    Please do not use offensive language like that in a public forum. Using gay as a derogatory term just makes you seem extremely immature and is extremely offensive. There are GLBTQ members of the digg community who are tired of hearing that term used everyday like that, and in a public place where both children and adults alike frequent, it should not be used.
  • Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh Jesus, why?
  • shadowsurfr1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** we're doomed. People who were addicted to myspace before, spending hours upon hours on it, will now live, breathe, eat, and sleep myspace, regardless of the time of day. Good money though, it's a genius idea! Won't get any of my money though.
  • c0deblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why get a new phone to myspace? as long as you can get online with opera mini your set! i check my xanga, myspace, facebook, aim, all the time and i have an old sprint samsung a680. oh yeah, google local is a great free download as well.
  • ninjathis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now I can take my myspace pictures and not move at all
    my life is complete
  • LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so does this mean everytime you try to make a phone call you get:

    "Error. A copy of this error has been sent to MySpace's technical group."
  • crash2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0More info on the Phone Creaters Site : http://www.helio.com/content.aspx?section=media_press
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@MindTrigger
    LOL...so true

    I still think it would be really funny if myspace all of a sudden disappeared because there would be a mass, global suicide.
  • kbunsie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why do people still use the term "cell phone"? Providers of "mobile phones" do not use cell towers anymore. Let's get it straight people.
  • tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It would be cool if they would release SmartPhone apps to let you fly through MySpace and manage your account and stuff. Both Windows and PalmOS Versions would be exelent!

    I already have a kick butt cell plan that includes unlimited internet access and TXT messages. So I do not care about getting a cell that has "Free" My Space access.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sigh.... I really hope people start using TAGWORD.com it owns myspace in everyway....except users :(
  • RBasil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While I am FAR from a fan of myspace, this is sure to be a big hit with it's members.
  • jr0515, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To sum up all the comments:
    "Kids these days and their newfangled ways...Back in my day I would walk 10 miles in freezing snow just to get to school." Now they want to socialize away from school? On the internet????....Dadgummit!
  • Pogue_Mahone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cell phones and myspace are two of my least favorite technologies.
  • ownedbytheman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"MySpace users to get cel-phones, continue to hope self-respect and social acceptance are next"
  • xLiKx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0holy jeez, can't people stay away from that lame site even when they're not at the computer?? i guess your kids can now meet more pedophiles on the cell phone too.
  • cpawl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can already do this with good blogging apps like Wordpress, Expression Engine...

    Maybe MySpace finally decided to upgrade that craphole.

  • harrisbradley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MySpace is the new AOL of 2000. People think they're experiencing the internet at it's fullest, when things are just passing them by at an important time.
  • aegreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@MindTrigger

    There is no use in arguing with a person who labels half of humankind "***** mindless cows".
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