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- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -4/+146I'm 34 and I think you all need to GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
/Digg neighborhood watch - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+67Yes! You ARE too old for MySpace. In fact, everyone over the age of negative one is too old for MySpace. We should all just stop using it.
- heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65Myspace isn't for geeks. It's for the masses. Computers may have become cool, but that doesn't mean that people have any idea how to use them. Myspace bridges that gap by providing idiot pages for people who think HTML is some sort of difficult programming.
I'm always amazed at how excited people get over their incredibly ugly profiles filled with asinine comments and overbearing cookie cutter music, but then again, those people would probably be amazed that I don't care if Brad and Jen get back together or whatever the hell is going on these days. - coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -5/+56I feel too old for MS, but mainly because i'm 36 and all the pretty girls are wayyy too young.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49"You think MySpace is bad? Go check out all the videos of barely clad teenage girls dancing it up on YouTube. Scandalous."
I may be older, but I'm not dead. Exactly which videos are you referring to?
I simply want to join you in your outrage of course. - Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42This person is A) Not Female
and B) Not a pedophile
Therefore, myspace cannot be for him. - banjk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+43I don't know man....I may be too old for dig 3.0 - I don't think I like the new sections much.
- Pootle4rthur, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I only joined up with myspace so I my non-geek friends could tell me when their gigs are.
to be honest I'd prefer if they just phoned me up, rather than forcing me to deal with the horribly designed myspack interface - tdk2fe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33What, you mean the "Luv ya babe! Had an awesome time at Gabe's fab party... kisses!" and "Dude, you were soooo drunk it was great!" has become tired?
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34One time I went to this place called holo-dek witch is kind of like a LAN party but they provide the computers for you and all the people who worked there had their girl friends. It was so damn scary because they were all haveing a myspace party, they were like "lol u just commented on my page teehee." Ill stick to real LAN partys for now on.
- nuvem, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36Oh the irony... A bunch of geeks (who are supposed to be social shut-ins who spend all day on the computer), are giving the "cool" teenagers ***** for spending all their time on MySpace instead of walking across the street to their friend's house.
- bebop717, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Dude no worries I'm in my early 20's and I dropped myspace because it served no purpose for me what so ever. Ok these people like me because we have the same taste in music, other than drop a quick like that says you rule or whatever I will never really get to know them to forget it.
Makes people feel like they have so many friends when it's not true you will never meet these people.
You are always bombarded with ads.
You have to keep hearing everyone's ***** music as soon as you get to their site.
You have to endure their site design of black background white text and spacrly icons while listening to crappy music.
You get to see people whine about their hard day at the taco hut.
Or hear about how some girl got dumped by some jerk then 50 guys respond back to that post saying he is a jerk, let's go out.
After seeing 100,000 drunk photos they all start to look alike.
It feeds a virtual lifestyle, much like playing a videogame, after you shut off the computer you life is no better, you have no more friends then before you went to myspace. You have a sence of community and belonging that does not exist, everyone is willing to be your friend because they won't judge you expect by the tiny ass profile that you have, which of course you can lie about. You could have 100 friends because you all like death metal and you are in the death metal groups and they except you because they think you are like them and vice versa, but they don't really know you and if those 100 friends also knew you enough that you also like my little pony, and interior design, they would start dropping you as a friend. This reminds of how television was viewed in cyberpunk back in the 80's. Novel's like William's Gibsons Neuromancer was all about how society was filled with people who were addicted to the wired world. It was a utopian society they wish they could live there all the time. One character in the novel was a very rich and famous individual who was very popular among the ladies, but in the real world he was on the streets in a cardboard box.
Go out there and really meet people, don't live a lie on myspace.
(really sorry started to sound like a rant halfway through) - banjk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I'm all for improving the My Space experience. Let's start with the BLINK tag and some dancing Jesus animated gifs.
Yeah...that would be tight! - igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29you are NEVER too old for digg! :D
- jeshjohn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25more cowbell
- b7illsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Supposing...I'm too old for Digg :(
- WinterSolstice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23My issue with myspace isn't that I'm too old (I don't think I am), it's that it is the absolute web ghetto.
The page designs are straight out of HTML 1.0 (scrolling backgrounds? blink? marquee? animated GIFs?), the general users are completely retarded, and the whole thing just reminds me of GeoCities, Fortune City, etc. Come on people, it's not 1998 any more. CSS, clean sites, readable text... these things are GOOD.
-WS - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@nuvem: Oh, how the tables have turned...
Now WE are the cool ones! Take that high school! - bobothn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23yeah it has nothing to do with age. it is the fact that my space sux. the people that are on it for the most part are not geeks they are aol users that found a page out side of aol. i (just being out of high school) have seen large groups of them. they sit in front of computers talking to people posting comments when the people they talk to live next door.
It is not a communinty in the geek sence. a community to us is people that have same intrest talking to each other and such it dosent matter were you are from.
the myspace comunity is realy just freinds people already know. - moted, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25"Because I don't "get" it. I mean, I know what MySpace is and what it's supposed to do and how influential it is. It's just that whenever I've visited a MySpace page I've thought "is that it?" and wandered around the perimeter looking confused, like a blind man patting the walls for an exit he can't find."
Everything you need to get can be found here:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Myspace - spectrox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23It is all the stuff that people wrote in high school year books, but real time.
OMG!
KIT!
Stay Sweet!
But then again, I wasn't stalked by nefarious pedophiles with pedo-smiles through an online system with 70 million clients. - numptydumpty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yeah, or just actual parties...
Leave the computers at home fcs - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22There's nothing drastically different about it; that's what surprises me most. 15-year-olds' web pages circa 1999 (think Geocities) were extraordinarily tasteless, and they still are.... plus ca change. MySpace looks so.... old school, Web 1.0, Geocities (again) 1999. I'd actually have expected things to have changed more than they have.
And disregarding the appearance, not wanting to use MySpace doesn't necessarily make you out of touch; not understanding *why* a 15-year old might want to use it... maybe that's different. I can understand that, I just don't want to use it myself. Why? Because I'm twice the age of that 15-year old, and it's not aimed at me.
Perhaps I'm missing something fundamentally different about MySpace because I'm being blinded by its superficial hideousness, but I don't think so. - ldhotsoup, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I think this just reflects a larger issue. My generation (the 20-somethings) and the generation before us (the 30-somethings) are finally having to relinquish some of our precious internet to the next generation (the teens) because they're now capable of putting it to use in ways we never will.
My generation did the same thing in high school with the dial-up BBS, but I don't wanna talk about it - in this tech age it makes me feel like a dinosaur. - spooq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20It needs less, not more...
- DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I blame the camwhores. They're the ones out there adding every guy they see. If some strange girls tries to add me and her friends list looks like a sausage fest, I clidk Deny.
I just use it to communicate with people I already know. - twollamalove, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21The guy isn't too old, myspace is just pretty chach-ish. The most painful part is the clever little comments. They're all the same, which completely takes any witty element of a clever little comment.
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21"I simply want to join you in your outrage of course."
Well, the outrage is in my pants... - zydeco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I agree with the web ghetto perspective. It's not that we're old, it's just that we've SEEN THIS ALL BEFORE and know that there are *better* ways to communicate and publish on the internet. MySpace looks like GeoCities circa 1999, except they're using it as a website, picture publisher, AND email.
When I heard two kids using "myspace" as a substitute for "email", as in "I myspaced Jill last night and the bitch never replied", I knew I never needed to visit the place. - Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16May be, may be. But I'm in my 40s, and MySpace is just about the first truly popular internet phenomenon I've come across which makes me want to start wagging my fingers at the young 'uns. I suppose its appeal is the ability to have a little customisable space on the Web that you can do something with without having to to get get in touch with your inner geek. Which is fair enough.
I'm still waiting for the first technology to come along which my kids use as second nature, but which leaves me baffled. It WILL happen, just not yet. - carolinaws, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16A very well written article. I feel much like the author. Maybe it's just the garish pages on there or the "is that it?" feeling I get. I much prefer to make things like MS and get paid lots of money for doing so. They're fun to play with – while I'm debugging them.
- carolinaws, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15idhotsoup - you just made me wish it was 1988 again and my Commodore 128 was serving up Color64 or Supra 128 -- whichever disk wasn't corrupt! ha!
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15that "wtf? is this it?" feeling he has is the same feeling i get whenever i go to myspace
it needs more, i dont know what, but more
which is why i do not have one :D - angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I find the popularity of MySpace to be absolutely astounding. Looking at any random page on there makes me want to cry with the garish design, loud music, and fifty thousand pics on one page. What scares me are the adults at my company who have pages...people with spouses and children!
I'm a married 30 year old female and I don't get it....and hope to never get it. - justice7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15@noGoodNamesLeft
1999? Are you kidding? ***** is more like '95 or '96 ...... i remmeber having a 14.4 modem and connecting to *****.
Anyone remember Angelfire? aka ***** part 2. - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14You think MySpace is bad? Go check out all the videos of barely clad teenage girls dancing it up on YouTube. Scandalous.
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14agreed...
i also hate the "MySpace angles" and emo kids - Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Screw the jesus Gif man its all about http://www.hampsterdance.com/
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@zydeco; You got it there. If those of us in our mid-20s onwards are "old", it's because we've seen this before and know it's not new, not because it *is* new.
I remember liking some music in my late teens, and people saying "it's just a copy of so-and-so" (who were famous 15-20 years previously); and now I know they were right, to some extent. Same here. - oldwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Teens need experiences like the "tee hee messages" and personal pages because their lives up to this point have been MEANINGLESS. Now they feel part of something greater than one node on the org chart in their household. But years later, thirty(forty, fifty) somethings have had loads of opportunities to "be somebody" and have gotten over it. Actually it will dawn on the kids that their pages and comments and blogs like this are also rather meaningless. Go out and help someone do something in the real world and these things seem silly in comparison.
- durmer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I agree. I'll be 30 in a couple of months, and I've connected with people I haven't seen since high school. Last night in fact, I met up with a friend I hadn't seen since graduation twelve years ago. I have found it to be a pretty useful tool to reconnect with old friends.
- greyghost487, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Me too, accept the problem is im 24. I guess it is very much like geocities in the 90's i had a geocities page back then, around 16 or 17 years old cluttered with picutres and links to other geocities pages, Midi music in the background. What i find disturbing is the # of peopl my age 21 that use myspace today!!. I DONT GET IT!!!!
- snownskate, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I have to agree w/ you and am hesitant to admit I have a page of my own. If you filter out all the hideousness that is MS, it's amazing how many old friends you can find on there (that is if you are in your 20's to 30's). I come across at least 1 new person a month that I have lost contact with. It's not like you can just call around your friend circle until you find a contact for these people...there's something about the internet that takes the creepiness out of this.
You can actually create a decent looking page with a tremendous amount of workarounds.....not to say that they come close to any real hosted site...and again not to say that 99% of the pages make my eyes and brain hurt. - igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7im saying, to be actually somewhat MAYBE worth MY time, it would need more...
but i get what you're saying; it blows, so tear it down.
and in some respects i agree - Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You tell them 'Myspace is for kids' and then give them the URl to your own hobby domain.
- PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"I feel too old for MS, but mainly because i'm 36 and all the pretty girls are wayyy too young."
Hence R. Kelly's profile. - ldhotsoup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Don't you guys get it? That's what makes you old! It's like kids listening to vinyl, or wearing bellbottoms. Things that were cool back then, but went out of style because stuff got modern, and now the retro look is being grappled by the next generation.
I agree completely that MySpace is ghetto. Music playing on pages, reminds me of the old midi music on Geocities sites. Flaming skull tiled backgrounds with sparkly stars around them... it's all buried and gone for us. But this new gen has decided to embrace the old crappy and make it theirs. And while it sucks for us, and we hang our heads in shame, it's still a sign of the times. - Criterion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Gads. I don't know why your being modded down, but that's exactly what it is :).
Lol!! "Many users (usually dateless females) will list seemingly impossible qualities they are looking for in a humanoid life form, such as the body of Brad Pitt, with eyeliner, and the soul of Truman Capote, but they also have to be a shirtless drummer in a band with no gag reflex." - igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8i also have some good slogan ideas
"a place for *****"
"wtf? theres nothing else?"
"a place for camwhores!"
"look at all the emo kids!"
"just kill yourself now! :D" - L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Creepy. I hate MySpace just like I hated the last bastion of the animated mailbox gif and mouse trails... *****, RIP.
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