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Supposing ... I'm too old for MySpace

guardian.co.uk — Great article describing the confused state and older geek falls into......

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  • coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -5/+57I feel too old for MS, but mainly because i'm 36 and all the pretty girls are wayyy too young.
    • 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
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -4/+146I'm 34 and I think you all need to GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

      /Digg neighborhood watch
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • numptydumpty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Yeah, or just actual parties...

      Leave the computers at home fcs
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • Tiabin, on 10/12/2007, -24/+5@Darth: If you're too old then you're probably just not looking to meet anyone. Otherwise... I don't believe there is such a thing as too old for myspace or ALMOST any social forum. (Almost excludes the obvious)

      Though I'm in my early 20s right now... When I'm 45 I'll probably be just as likely to date 20 year olds and not feel in the least bit ackward about it.
    • Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42This person is A) Not Female
      and B) Not a pedophile

      Therefore, myspace cannot be for him.
    • 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.
    • texpundit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm 34 and the only reason I signed up for MySpace is so that I can keep up with friends from back home.
    • billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@nuvem: Oh, how the tables have turned...

      Now WE are the cool ones! Take that high school!
    • 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.
    • 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...
    • 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)
    • striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://youtube.com/results?search=girlfriend+dancing&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

      Who buys these ***** kids these cameras? I think that all camera phone data should be uploaded to a t-mobile like account and accessable by parents.
    • Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@raid517
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=mOVae0anqtw
      Just do a search for "my humps", the black eyed peas song. Isn't that just, terrible?
    • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Texpundit - I'm in the same boat as you. I have a MySpace account because at 35, all the friends I've had over the years tend to be spread out around the country (and the world) now. It's nice to have people back "in my life" (as it were) who I otherwise would have lost track of years ago. Some of them I hadn't seen since 1990, and now they're right on my page.

      I don't have any friends on my list that aren't friends from my "real" life, and I keep my account blocked from random friend requests.

      It's not the best site by a long shot, but it's where most people are now, so it's the one I use. You don't have to use MySpace the way them dang kids do if you don't want to.
    • 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.
    • jzimmerman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3| DarthTurducken posted:
      | I'm 34 and I think you all need to GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
      | /Digg neighborhood watch

      I think that is the greatest comment posted regarding myspace
    • 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.
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@jzimmerman

      I couldn't agree more!
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Go check out all the videos of barely clad teenage girls dancing it up on YouTube."

      And you know this how?
    • billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uhhh...by watching them?
    • OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"/Digg neighborhood watch"

      Great, now Fark is invading. Leave your slashies at home, mister.
    • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're never too old for the lovely young ladies of MySpace. Just bring plenty of liquor (marijuana, meth, crack optional) and you're guaranteed a home run on the first date.

      Watch out for the ones carrying guns though, very bad, very bad...
    • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[quote]I'm 34 and the only reason I signed up for MySpace is so that I can keep up with friends from back home.[/quote]

      Yes, but people enjoy bashing MySpace for no particularly good reason. The pedophilia incidents on there are greatly exaggerated. There's far more pedophilia going on at MSN than MySpace; there are entire private groups on there dedicated to it. I'm surprised MS lets this kind of stuff go on.
    • templest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Don't worry about the age thing. I'm 18 and don't have a MySpace account.
      You don't have to be 30 to realize something's an eye-gouging waste of time.
      MySpace is just AngelFire with a blog-like way of linking one page to another.
      Nothing new, and frankly, the only kinds of people to socialize on there are like
      the flamers on this site.

      Useless waste of my time.

      I'd rather just stick to my Messengers.
    • thefinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am amoral.

      I don't care about anything anymore except *****.

      Can someone help out?... I am too lazy to type the url for myspace. I need to know in advance if there are any good titty flashes there. I know I know!! myspace is supposed to be about intellectual content and meaningful relationships, but I just want blonde women with huge boobs and no brains.

      LOL
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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?
    • newevilmind, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5that's why you disable the comment feature.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -24/+102 comments. First, just because YOU aren't a part of it, doesn't mean that it isn't a community or that it sucks.

      Second, I have a Myspace account simply to reconnect with people that I've long-since lost touch with. Just yesterday I found my best friend who moved away 12 years ago. Maybe you should give it a try before slamming it so badly.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • spectrox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'd like to see Scott Baio as the spokesperson for MySpace.
    • dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"I don't know man....I may be too old for dig 3.0 - I don't think I like the new sections much."

      Damn, and I thought it was just me. Something's rotten in the state of Digg.com.
    • twollamalove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@omatsei

      you speak like we've never tried myspace. dude, we're posting comments on digg. that means we have way too much interaction with the computer. of course we've tried that *****.
    • rhsjr7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2'omatsei':
      I don't mean to be rude or hurtful, that person is hardly your best friend if you lost touch 12 years ago.

      Myspace is; in my opinion what IM's were when they first hit.

      I've said my PiecePeace
      Richard H. Smith Jr.
      rhsjr7
    • AshyRaccoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5About the "Geocities" comments: That's pretty much what MySpace makes *me* think of. Some of the profiles I have seen have just the right (or wrong) mix of bad color choices, huge ego, and autoplaying music.. and all the other qualities (or lack thereof) that shout out "Bad and hasty page design".

      Then again, I have seen some profiles that are not bad, yet I still have this avoidance of MySpace because of the badly designed profiles that exist.

      I've considered getting a MySpace page in the past, to connect with a few friends that have MySpace pages, but.. to me, it just has this cheap feel to it. Too pop-culture, too "something".. The same kind of feeling I have about AOL, and all these ads/commercials for daily jokes, screensavers, and such things on cell phones.

      I guess I mean to say I just don't get it. (And I'm 22.)
    • KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"I don't know man....I may be too old for dig 3.0 - I don't think I like the new sections much."

      Digg is going down the ***** hole. I used to come for Tech, but ever since then more crap has been making it to the front... it's ridiculous.
    • Urthwhyte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MySpace should make any geek cringe, I've never seen so much abuse of flashing text in my life. Being in 8th grade, all of the kids who are on MySpace are like "OMGz im a 1337 hax0rs becuz i have a website1111" I've never found a Knoppix CD so handy as being able to slap it in and watch them be like "Oh noes, my computer has been teh broken!"
    • stable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agree! MySpace is the result of pop culture hitting the web. I'm 24, my friends consider me a geek, and I don't care the least about MySpace. Anyway in my personal case I think it has more to do with the fact that I disregard blogs altogether. I feel that bloggers talk too much and do too little.
  • b7illsmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24Supposing...I'm too old for Digg :(
    • igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29you are NEVER too old for digg! :D
    • DigliriumTremen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6But at 38 with a wife, 4 kids and a mortage, I *feel* too old for digg.
    • form3hide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6*****, i'm 23 -- no kids, however i do have a mortgage... i feel too old for digg.
    • OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We could use more older users on here!
  • 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.
  • 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
    • spooq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20It needs less, not more...
    • 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
    • jeshjohn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25more cowbell
  • Maku, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2lol @ coldfusion!!! It's a stupid site that should be shutdown IMO though in all seriousness
    • banjk, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Maku....I don't even know what you just said? ENUNCIATION!!!!!
  • 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!
    • Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Screw the jesus Gif man its all about http://www.hampsterdance.com/
    • 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.
    • bndocksnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ohhhh, no, I just can't stop laughing at the hamsters!!! Why would you do this to me, they're just way too hilarious!!! Aggh! {sfx: head exploding}
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Jesus the hampsters have come a long way - I'd totally forgotten about them.
  • Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1It's great that they have separated parents away from their kids on MySpace cause man the Parents were always reading the kids comments! Geez! Oh wait, that's a good thing right? I love how dumb people really are and naive also, do you really think this will stop anything? Seriously? I mean people aren't that freaking dumb are they? God I hope not, what a sad sad view on society! A lot of parents are WAY to overprotective to when its really not necessary, then their kid grows up all ***** up and they blame it on society. Its not societies fault its your fault because you listened to them, you listened to all the people that told you to be so freaking protective that you didn't let them experience anything on their own and now look at what he did, he just killed someone! Boo ***** hoo, stupid ***** people!
    • Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1LOL zits? I wish I was still that young, doesnt mean I cant use my young brain to argue on digg though, thats how I blend in!
  • igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1bury
  • 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.
    • igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14agreed...

      i also hate the "MySpace angles" and emo kids
    • 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!!!!
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@greyghost487

      Ahhh memories - I remember my first Geocities page., and al those 88x31 modified Netscape Now! buttons and a MIDI of "Sweet Dreams (are made of these)" by Marilyn Manson.

      Those were the days.
    • billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1My buddy and I ran a geocities page. We used it to post pics we scanned in from house parties and other high school social 'events of the year'. We realise now if we had stuck with it we could have been Flickr.

      I could have been bought by yahoo! Damn. Missed that train.
  • Maku, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6@banjk MySpace sucks, thats it.
  • 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.
    • 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!
    • 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.
    • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • SoldierPrime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Seriously it's like Tom said "LOL where did geocities go? I'm going to make something like it with a module that holds links tied to pictures and you can post comments which is like signing my vistor book or whatever the hell it was."
    • Flooq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think that's part of it, most of us forget the stupid crap we use and created in our youth to learn how the web worked. I'm only in my early 20s and yet I can sympathise with this article. Being too old is only part of it, a good chunk of MySpace is ran by teenagers but that's only the beginning of the issue, I know people my age who who myspace but there's no coincidence that the ones who do understand computing and the web only use it to communicate with people who don't quite get it yet.

      If I want to share music I use last.fm and show what I'm really listening to without annoying people with embedded mp3s, if I want a blog I create a blog of my own and I want to share pictures I'll use flickr. This is how the web works, the sites and pages interact with act other either directly through APIs or indirectly by links which make them all part of the same thing to the user.

      MySpace is just condensing this into one site and making it easy for people and attractive to those who like shiny, flashy things. Like wikipedia it's just a website which tries to do something the web was already good at doing, it just does it an a much less useful way.

      (Damn that was a big post, maybe I should look into making that blog.)
    • halicon5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Myspace is to Webdesign as Scriptkiddies are to Hackers.
  • 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
    • 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."
    • Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That is unfathomably awesome. I can't believe I hadn't heard of this site.
    • Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very useful - and amusing. Thx
    • GooBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*****. I stopped reading this article and just spent an hour lmao on articles at this site.
      And if you are offended by my use of vulgarity in this comment, do not go to that site!
    • jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aww... the myspace pwning tool on that page is dead.. anyone got a mirror?
  • essauter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I love this article I'm only 2. Every time I go to MySpace I think "that's it?" as well. So don't worry, it's not an age thing, it's an intelligence thing :)
    • igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1you mean 20?
    • lil_isie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Same here man, I'm 19 and I just don't get it. Again I don't want to know. I'll be happy with my goDaddy account, thank you very much.
    • heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Incredibly well spoken for a 2 year old.
    • daurkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2GoDaddy is the devil also. Read the contract and look at how GoDaddy owns you.
    • SoldierPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As you can see even a 2 year old genius who can post on Digg can decipherer between a pos site and a real site.

      btw I like godaddy, they called me to thank me for buying a domain, good customer service.
  • 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.
    • jedi0utkast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I do feel your pain, I just can't stand to look at those pages in MySpace, Nothing makes sense you have a dancing hamster next to guy jumping on a bike, then pictures of his half naked friend on the beach, well I should not continue, everybody knows what I am talking about.. It just play sucks.

      The only reason MySpace is popular is that even an Idiot can build something and tell the other Idiots to go check it out.
    • spectrox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It is generally true that the majority of the population likes stupid things. How else do you explain aerosol cheese, NASCAR and Lee Presson Nails? If you are familiar with the Pareto Principle, in this case 80% of the general population makes up 20% of the aggregate intelligece of our country.
      w00t!

      In other countries are sites like Orkut seen as the cesspool of mental depravity that is MySpace in North America?
    • dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Simple. I get it. It's an easy way for me to keep up with: Sister-in-law in Africa, cousin-in-law in India, friends in Florida and Texas, etc. It's also a place to find indie bands that can use Myspace's space and bandwidth to post their songs. It's also a place where I can read actor's from The Office's blogs.

      It's useful to me. Simple.
  • rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I'm 41 (or, will be on Monday), and have been a geek since the Timex Sinclair 1000. I've got a website where I post the music I write and record. Spent loads of time on it. Yet, when people want to hear my music online, they ask what my MySpace URL is. So, I made one and posted a couple of songs there with links back to my REAL site. MySpace is a pathetic excuse for a web site... but, what else could I do? I'm frankly embarassed to have one.
    • Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You tell them 'Myspace is for kids' and then give them the URl to your own hobby domain.
    • beanfeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+440 and use Myspace to keep track of music that I like coming through. Embarrassed to be there, but, as it seems to be the only game in town for that sort of thing, I deal with it. Plus, I can surrepticiously keep track of my teenaged son that way... (I can't believe that he hasn't caught on yet...)

      That said, it hurts my eyes and pisses me off w/ the automated videos and harsh music. Get off my lawn.

    • rekrapt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ACK! Hobby? Shhhh! How am I supposed to convince my wife to keep letting me spend money on my studio if she finds out it is just a hobby? :-)
  • BTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have an account on a Blog-type site and I have the same reaction as the writer in regards to Myspace. The only reason I can think of that it gets ALL the press is that Myspace is ultimately owned by Rupert Murdock. I like the new slogan for Myspace "Is that it?"
    • 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"
  • purplerabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still feel like MySpace pretty much sucks but I think that's because I don't create anything. I would put it down to age but at 39 I still don't feel too old for LiveJournal...
  • Ziff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hey says "I just dont get it" Thats because there is nothing to get. He cant find anything worthwhile on myspace because there is nothing. When you visit a myspace page full of stupid backgrounds, flashing animations, and obnoxious scrolling text that went out of style years ago, there is really nothing more. What you see is what you get. All it is now is a bunch of kids who want to be cool with 5000 friends they have never met and more animated GIFs than the next person.
  • JMellissa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, I'm 48 and still remember how to use edlin.com, so you're not too old for anything unless YOU say so.
    My band has a presence on MySpace (in addition to our official site). I think it's important (and challenging) to remain open to new ideas. I also have come to the conclusion that time spent "not comparing-in" is time spent "comparing-out".
  • Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Myspace = nub fest
    • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wookin' pa nub?

      /REALLY showing my age now
  • SayAnything, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm 20 years old and feel exactly like this guy, so I don't think it's an age thing. I just don't understand what's so amazing about it. Every Myspace page just looks the same to me, with the same old comments about how drunk they got at a party or how they should "hang out some time". If these people truly are friends why aren't they hanging out together in person and talking about there super awesome teenage drinking parties in private instead of on the Internet where their mommy and daddy can see it? Is it to show everyone how cool they are or how "popular" they are? Now I know there might be some pages that aren't all that ridiculous but I really think the ridiculous out-weights the decent ones. I think it's more of a maturity thing than an age thing.
  • jeshjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I started out on geocities, before they had a WYSIWYG editor, my mother bought me an html book and I started playing around with it on geocities.
  • samury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm 23, I don't think I'm that old, though I am at a point that I love to reminisce about my childhood, and I do hate MySpace. I have the same issue as the author, I really just don't care. Quite a few of my friends have it, but some of them share the same view as me. I love to embrace new technologies and trends, but I really rather keep track of my friends the conventional and more meaningful way than some Internet site.
  • bw10009, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For bands it's an essential marketing tool. People of all ages are pretty conditioned to look for a band at myspace.com/ xxxxxx before they look for a web site. But as a social network? to actually find real connections? no way.
    • aembleton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Absolutely! I joined myspace, just so that I could stay in contact with bands and DJs that I have heard on the radio, most new bands have a myspace account in lieu of a real domain website. Since then I have found two of my friends are on myspace, so I've added them. I don't really use it for social networking tho.

      Using myspace I was able to listen to 4 tracks from St. Elsewhere, the Gnarls Barkley album. After hearing those tracks, especially Smiley Faces I realised that they weren't just some one-hit-wonder and bought their album. In the past I'd have waited till more tracks were played on the radio or maybe downloaded it.
  • PrionHunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought most techies in general don't like Myspace. I mean, its a pure social network with a lot of comprehensive features you can pick up on just by looking at the front page and from a technical standpoint "Is that it?" is a fair question. For people who enjoy People-Networking of differing forms, MySpace is probably for them though.

    It will be an interesting thing to see how a large group that is so interconnected handles old age.
  • tdave365, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1To me the reason MySpace is so aggravating is because it's so redundant to what the internet web's space was or is supposed to be in the first place. Doesn't anyone there get that they can do the same thing with notepad and a simple FTP client, yet have much more creative control? Want links to friends? -- they're called hyperlinks! So it's not, as an older guy, that I find the concept unappealing. In fact it's the exact opposite. I just wish more folks would have figured out how to set up simple web pages.
  • Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wouldn't feel bad about not liking MySpace... and he's not too old. These days, WasteofSpace is filled with old men with the opinion "If she's old enough to pee, she's old enough for me"
    Maybe he's just not emo enough.
  • BaylorDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I agree with some comments above. MS seems like a place where non-geeks can get together. Back 5-10 years ago, you had to be more of a geek to social network. MS mainstreamed this idea for non-geeks, making us geeks bitter.
  • DoubtingThomas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I recently talked with a buddy of mine (he's 29 and I just dinged 31). He has a MySpace page which, from what I gather from his stories, is basically a way to pick up women. I told him MS was primarily a bunch of middle/high school aged kids, to which he replied "No man!!! There are plenty of mid-20/30 year old chicks on it. You NEED a MySpace page!!!"

    The other day he was talking of his hooking-up exploits related to MS. Come to find out he had to pull strings at the club they went to get these girls in the bar because all of the them where 18! Now, I have nothing against dating younger women. I just thought it was funny how he went on about the number mid-20/30 year-olds he met on MS but ended up hooking up with a bunch, for the lack of a better term, kids.
    • spectrox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have several friends in the late 20's/early 30's age group that have had the same experience. Young girls (read as over 18) are looking to meet guys that have stable jobs, own homes, and can treat them nice. Since there isn't really a physical meeting place that would connect these dissimilar social groups, myspace serves as connection point for consentual no strings attached intimacy. In some ways it is just as bad as CraigsList's casual encounters, but less creepy.
  • nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Bottom line: If you're over the age in 18 and have a Myspace page you are ***** lame. I think I have more respect for people who made Geocities/Anglefire pages back in the day than I do for any Myspacers.
  • altopablo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm 31, and a musician, and have a few friends my age that utilize MySpace to market their music. I think the music side suffers from the same isolated clique aspect that dominates the site in general. The poster that said MySpace is comprised of lots of AOL users hit the nail on the head in my opinion. Whereas before, having a large buddy list was the badge of honor amongst the "youngsters", now it's all about getting "adds" to your page.

    So your average page has hundreds, if not thousands of "friends", but the postings amount to nothing more than self-indulgent blather. I'm my brief foray into friend's music pages, I came upon post after post basically saying "Thanks for the add, you should check out my page".

    That being said, I'd be on it if I was 15, doing the same damn thing.
  • scottauth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think people look too far into this.

    I read a handful of comments of people stating they're 'embarrased to be on myspace' -- who cares? Are you dropping yourself down to high school age and caring what people think of you?

    I have a myspace page. It is what it is. I stay in touch w/ my friends, my favorite musicians and for that it is just fine. I never go looking for random people to talk to so I don't have to put up w/ all the annoying pages that so many complain about.

    Speaking of which, a lot of people over 30 are complaining about teenagers pages...why are you looking at them to begin with?

    Mind your own business and realize Myspace is here and will be here for awhile. If you don't like it simply don't use it or ignore it. The majority of the people who complain about Myspace are more childish than the website's target market.
    • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Speaking of which, a lot of people over 30 are complaining about teenagers pages...why are you looking at them to begin with?"

      Can't speak for anyone else, but when I hear a lot about a particular site, I want to see it for myself. Had a look, checked a few pages, decided it wasn't my thing.

      "Mind your own business"

      No :-)

      "and realize Myspace is here and will be here for awhile."

      Maybe it will; maybe it's just a fad. Who knows?

      "If you don't like it simply don't use it or ignore it."

      I don't and I generally do...
      OTOH, the phenomenon and the hype are worthy of discussion, and I make no apologies for having an opinion on it. That's not the same as complaining....
  • rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We're all too old for walled gardens.
  • shefftim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A market waiting to be tapped guys. I believe the web 2 thingy is just starting. My-Space/Face-Book etc have attracted lots of teens & early 20's. There's a huge market for similar social sites targeting niche groups. By age, profession, pastime & interests etc.
    Also on the age thing; Yahoo's social search seems to be inhabited by 16 yr olds. That's why I'd never trust an answer to a question on there.
  • FBMGriever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great article!

    "Last week, in the US, I saw an advert for a handheld gizmo using the slogan "It's not a cellphone: it's MySpace on the go." It's a terrifying first - a new gadget I know I'll never want to buy. I've never felt so lost."

    Haha, you just cant beat his logic there...
  • justice7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Things i'd much rather do than visit myspace

    Stick hot needles in my eyes
    Pull my scrotum over my head
    Drink a bottle of liquid laundry detergent
    Eat someone elses vomit
    Be on a plane that is about to crash
    Hold firecrackers with my ass hole
    Date that fat chick in high school
  • terrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My issues with myspace (yes, I have one, I kind of have to for reasons I'll explain below), besides the horrid design, ads of models trying to sell me stuff and insulting my intelligence, and trashy profile pages you can't read half the time, is really the friends thing, thats what its about, they can list their friends. The other problem is 40% of the friends in someone's profile is someone they've never met, the other 40% is a bunch of bands. WHY the heck are bands in someone's friends list, should they not be in the music section of the profile page? You don't know the band, liking more bands does not mean you have more friends? Why on the customized bands page are people listed as friends instead of fans? The other 20% usually are people they've at least met once in real life. Now my profile I actually keep it down to only people I've met in real life, including bands, every other band gets a link to their myspace profile

    I also despise myspace and have my own personal website, if only someone would come out with a service that allowed you to post a friends list on your own website, handled the friends requests, and it didn't matter if you had a LJ, myspace, xanga, facebook, blogger, friendster or whatever, it just listed your friends, their pic and when you clicked on them it redirected you to their site after looking at an ad or something. I don't want a myspace profile, I'm just forced to because thats what all my friends have, and they'd never find my website, or some old friends would lose contact with me without it.
    • dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Every person on my webpage, I've met (several times) except for the few bands I have listed. Why are bands listed as my friends? Because they can send "blasts" of upcoming albums, tours, etc and I can see them on my homepage.
    • terrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well yeah, but they could fix it so if you like a band you can add them to the Music section and still get the updates and bulletins, and bands could just get a fans list. I'm just sick of seeing friendslist with 150 bands in it, and 20 actual people, and then those same bands in their music list that doesn't even link automatically to their profiles.
  • G33k0ft3chz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm 25 and I have a myspace page,But I just talk to my family members and friends that I used to go to school with.And yea I feel too old for myspace, It is over crowded with teens with flashing backgrounds and the layout is very web 1.0.I would think if they are so popular they would change it.

    And in a reply to scottauth, many people like to see who their friends and family's friends are and so heor she might stumble abound to one of those pages.





  • yttrx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The simple answer is:

    When you're too old for myspace, you grow up, get a domain, shell out a few bucks a month for hosting, and manage your own damn blog.
    • SoldierPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bingo. What is it, $9 for a domain for a year and about 4 or 5 dollars for decent hosting, so appox $55 a year you get all you need. And even with minumum wage that's just about 1-8 hour work day.
  • WDot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The question I have is this: Several years from now, when everyone on Myspace outgrows Myspace, what will the next generation of children think? Will they say "Geez, Myspace was the stupidest thing ever, how could you old hags do that?" Or will they find a new generation of Myspace to become addicted to, thus continuing the horrible trend that Geocities started?
  • SerenityX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You're kidding - I'm 15 years younger than that guy and I feel like I'm too old for MySpace, and the phrase blogosphere grates on me too. The answer isn't to get out and 'drink ale' - I have life aplenty while managing to study animatronics at university. It just seems so utterly pointless to me. Everyone wants to be on it just because it's 'cool'. Like neopets was 'cool' and hobbo hotel was, apparently, once 'cool'. I just do not get this phenomenon either.
  • antlerboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why rag on myspace? because of its popularity among teenagers and poor site design? thats not a solid argument. you dont HAVE TO add a bunch of stupid teenagers to your friends list and you can make a pretty darn decent page because the html is editable. of course the majority has poor pages. the majority of any social group(digital or in real life) has absolutely no design sense.

    im 25 and an illustrator. my roommate is 37 professional photographer. we both use myspace to keep our connections organized. it works, end of story.

    but yeah... saying "are you on myspace?" out loud still feels horribly lame and embarrising...

    but did anyone notice that the writer of this article did mention that he was a "misanthrope"(n.
    one who hates or mistrusts humankind.) in the first place?
  • Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think this guy is too old for MySpace, he just doesn't have any friends using it.

    I'm 27, and I hate the site, but it's quite handy for keeping in touch with people who have little to know technical ability. Mostly I just wait for a "You've got a new message" email, read it, and email them back.

    But I get that "And now what?" feeling anywhere else, like Orkut.

    And just to complain a bit:
    "the same sort of fusty grumbliness that made greying musos boycott CDs in favour of vinyl in the 80s because they JUST DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW about this new-fangled whatchamathing."

    ..OR those people can actually tell the difference between a good analog recording and a digital one. I don't even own a record player, so I'm no vinyl nazi, but I've never heard anything sound better than a good quality vinyl pressing of Led Zep II played through a hi-fi tube amplifier. It's the closest to actually sounding "live" that I've ever heard. Deep Purple's Machine Head is similarly amazing. I've heard it has to do with different harmonic artifacts created by the amplifiers/sources.

    EDIT: Oh, and my 66 year old parents use MySpace to talk to grand kids and great grand kids.
    • SerenityX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"I don't think this guy is too old for MySpace, he just doesn't have any friends using it. "

      I have a lot of friends using MySpace but I refuse to venture on there. It's a sad day for all of us if the only way to communicate with friends is a poorly designed, overly used website like MySpace. Perhaps the guy has friends who use it, but prefers to communicate with them in what he would term 'better' ways.
    • heinousjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah, yes, the vinyl fallacy. Nothing makes me happier than people claiming the additional noise makes it 'warm.'
  • mlvassallo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I only joined up with myspace so I my non-geek friends could tell me when their gigs are."

    Word. I use MySpace because my friends who are in bands think it is an easy way to advertise their local shows. I wouldn't know (unless I asked) who was playing where if I didn't have a MySpace account.

    Other than that I use it to take pictures of me cutting myself and write poetry about death.

    http://myspace.com/stalfros
    • Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You look like Andy Milonakis.
    • Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can tell MySpace is perfect for you - its something about the way you use 'Word.'
  • ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Na, it's because Myspace is for n00bs.
    And some of us would never venture into an "AOL" type arrena.

    Don't worry, your not allone. There are still wise geeks out here.
    :)

  • pinga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MySpace sucks, regardless of your age. However, it is ok as a mindless distraction - that's all it should be. You are a moron, however, if you sit there trying to add 500 friends to your list, while trying your darndest to make your page absolutely unreadable.
  • meggani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My first reaction to myspace was "Ok, cool. I'll get one, I can keep in touch with people!" Once I had one, though, I realized the true horror that was myspace. Ugh. I'm 18 and want to kill any myspace page I see. I don't...get..it... How can people stay on sites that have some horribly high chance of crashing your browser and making you blind!?
    • noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What is more likely to make teenagers blind, masturbating 14 times a day or looking at MySpace pages? ;-)
  • Kbennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Add me to the list of the others in the mid-to-late 20s who get it, but just don't care about MySpace.
  • SoldierPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not that I am one of those that hates myspace, I just dislike it. Overall, what can I do with myspace that I can't do with something like email/IM/or my own site; it also is to flashy, can't read 70% of the text on peoples sites(lol 20/20 vision), and their lame ass music. And I don't know how Murdoch is going to use this for marketing, but if you're stupid enough to be on myspace 5 hours a day, you're stupid enough to buy into whatever he wants.

    I do say that I like myspace for its bands pages, people post links to a lot of good artist that I would have never known of.
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