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- Evoguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Myspace is such a poorly coded POS, I sure hope Tom wrote it on his own, cause if there's a whole team of professional web developers behind it... shame shame.
- Motocompo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+41Tip of my hat.... Wag of my Finger!
- surgen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Not surprising, but an interesting read none the less.
- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+28"You might like to try this new social networking website called Nigeria Space!"
-Brought to you by the same people who send you those annoying wire transfer e-mails. - MobbyG, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25The one positive thing about MySpace though, you only need one line in your iptables to to make it go away. :)
- vegasmacguy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16That's it... Tom, You're Off My Friends List!
- Portside, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Agreed, the idea that such a massive site is the child of one man just wanting to make a cool webpage is just stupid. Myspace is exactly what it claims to be: A networking site. A site where people sell things, whether that is music, products, or themselves.
- MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Guaranteed to make absolutely no difference to MySpace's core users.
- rtoo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16myspace is fukn weak. i'll digg any article that slams it or exposes it for what it is... garbage.
- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10One thing the article should have mentioned is that when users delete their account or if myspace deletes their account the accounts are still stored and never removed. That is one reason they have more than 100 million users they just play with the numbers. Not to mention all the fake celebrity profiles and multiple accounts users create.
- exsst, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10It is sh*t I admit, but the amount of people on it has made it cool.. Yes, the coding is diabolical and I don't LIKE using it.. I like contacting my old friends.
- exsst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I found out from the article that Tom did not create it, and that it's a direct competitor to freindstar (primarily for its purpouse).
Oh and, if you use ad-block for firefox, you can litrally remove every single ad.. It's fcuking great to be honest.. I browse myspace without all the sh*t! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+19I cannot believe that people STILL think they are being clever when they post "People still use XXXXX" for every article posted about things like MySpace, Internet Explorer, etc.
EVERY ***** time. It wasn't funny the first time, The 682,453rd time it is just pathetic.
Yes, people use MySpace. Far more people use MySpace in an hour than use Digg in a MONTH. Far more people use it than ANYTHING you will ever create in your worthless life. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There are ads on myspace? [turns off adblock] [eyes open wide]
- Giever, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8If anything, his life has more worth because he _didn't_ create myspace.
- zumpiez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Did anybody using Myspace NOT know that it is basically the world's largest advertising delivery vehicle? And why is he presenting this like it's some kind of dark and terrible secret? Oh my GOD, people are making MONEY!
- typo180, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I think the lies were more the focus than the ads
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm sure we're all very glad to hear this.
- chainsawd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Somewhere in the darkest depths of the Internet, an obsessive-compulsive nerd has read this article and is now outraged. His fantasies about Tom and Myspace have been shattered and, for that, News Corp will pay.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16"Oh n0es teh newscorp!"
Okay, News Corp. flunky, nobody really talks like that, so you're not fooling anybody in your quest to geurilla market digg, nor are you swaying any of us. Go away. - typo180, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The author is Trent Lapinski.
- artofwar420, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7MYSPACE is bad for your health.
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow I think almost every comment here has several thumbs down. Including mine I'm sure
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@anysublime123
Based on your spelling and writing skills, I think most people here would be surprised to learn that you are older than 10. It doesn't help you reinforce your point. - cuzican, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4As my younger self use to say.. "you hate them because you ain't them"... they have and will set more traffic and subscriber records then all other online sites... sure they make a lot of mistakes but they have the major core piece to the puzzle..
- lsdeath, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14I have to agree. Who cares. No ***** its all about the ads. Isn't that the whole web 2.0 business model?
- Noah0504, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I think something needs to be created to kill off MySpace. I love the idea of being able to stay in touch with friends, but I'm really getting sick of the HORRIBLE design of MySpace (layout and coding included) and the advertising. Diggers unite!
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2People still uselessly rant about other peoples comments?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ahem - we're at Web 2.0 currently. I already claimed 3.0 for my site 4.0+ is still up for grabsies.
- exsst, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yeah, defintley some annoying trends people do, especially their god-aweful profile pages with atleast 5 videos going at once, they must be brain-dead. But anyway, I use myspace because of the users on it.. not the website.
- tdave365, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5It's not how many users delete their account -- who deletes an account anymore? The better and more incriminating number would be that of those who abandon their accounts.
All in all the article was disappointing to me. I thought it had some dirt like maybe News Corp deliberately and covertly planted "MySpace is Dangerous to Kids" stories in order to raise its overall profile and scrape in all the traffic cream that results.
In general MySpace is completely redundant to the inherent features of the web itself. Why someone sees god in setting up a MySpace profile and linking to friends, but not in setting up a common home page where the freedom and reach to do that and more are much greater, is beyond me.
I've seen this before - take something free about the Internet, repackage it as an exclusive service (e.g., require folks to log in to some control panel), and people go nuts for it. - scorwitz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm hoping he's holding onto to some piece of information that any 8 year old can't figure out for themselves.
Also, as for the horrible design, I agree. I refuse to even look at people's pages where I can't read the text. How can otherwise intelligent people think that their new MySpace layout looks good when you can't even tell that there's a profile without highlighting the text? - elastikos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@exsst
Even with adblock on, any browsing on that site and you're wading though *****. - ff3j, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Sanity
Do you really think people like this: http://www.myspace.com/zack2085 care about anything on either Digg or Slashdot?
Seriously... - jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6MySpace sucks. seriously, i dont see any point in it, other than for people who love posting thousands of annoying animated gifs, writing up lists of "favorite x" and sharing their music (which is highly annoying...)
- apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks for contributing. [/sarcasm]
- dbug, on 10/12/2007, -19/+19People still use myspace?
- haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@Arthursucks "I thought all of the information was total public knowledge."
According to that logic, since most (not all) information about everything is "total public knowledge", we should all pretty much know everything then, right? Which means you can name the 11th president, the capitol of Oregon, the longest river in Kentucky, and the president of Nigeria just off the top of your very well informed head. Right? - lydgate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Interesting article, though not particularly surprising... my friends and I have a joke that if Dante wrote the Inferno today, MySpace would be one of the circles of hell. Good info.
- royalwcheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I imagine this nerd to look and sound exactly like the Simpson's comic book guy.
- Khaos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1at least this has hit digg so people will know the truth, now even if the big corps try and stop his story from getting printed it won't matter
- vcleniuk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I had a case of marketroids once... painful...
- dustedotnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ditto. :)
- PanteroBlanco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3The "bfd" wasn't what he was exposing; it's the fact that they tried to get him to shut up through legal threats. If they'd ignored him, I wouldn't really consider this newsworthy, as it wouldn't be saying anything that I haven't read on SlashDiggChan plenty of times.
For example, if a company tried to coerce a comedian from making fun of cars with oversized spoilers, I would consider it a big deal, even though I didn't care much about the subject matter. - inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Nothing about this article is surprising. However, it's good news that people are starting to realize what a complete disaster the site it. I mean, the degree to which this site is awful extends into people's own social lives, potentially wrecking them. There are a lot of girls out there who sit by the computer all day, hawking their "friends" myspace accounts, only actually contacting these people to talk to them about changes their myspace account.
These are not girls you'd like to be friends with, trust me. - SanityInAnarchy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Except MySpace is certainly not the only way to get a free personal web page. It is, however, one of the few that can make your personal web page suck so much.
Tripod, Angelfire, Geocities, and Freewebs, congratulations, you are no longer the ghetto of the Internet. MySpace has taken your place as the absolute worst. - exsst, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3there are other better sites. bebo for example
- timelf123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hmm. "Stupidest" site run by "oncool buisness men". While they may be "uncool" they are also making a killing in advertising. Speaking of ads, just use adblock for firefox if you don't like the myspace ads.
#1 How the hell do kids that are 15 and under have so much money?
#2 Why the hell does myspace care if you have money? It makes money off of ads, there is no subscribtion fee or anything
Why is myspace "dumb *****"?
Although the coding may suck ass, and the server management isn't the best, it still is one of the most used websites on the web. It may suck in appearance, but even profiles can be radically modified. I'm not talking about simply adding a background and changing table color, I mean like a whole site from scratch, that includes myspace functionality. For an example, check out my page http://myspace.com/timelf
To see how I did it, check out the link in the top of the screen corner - beanoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0There is nothing wrong with the idea of myspace but the business behind it will always be corrupt, billions of dollars and morality dont mix.
And these days schools have cottened on to the idea of myspace and are blocking it so you need sites like http://www.proxieslist.net and there about money in the end too. - breakspirit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The guy in the trucker hat is Tom, not the guy writing the article. Also, if you don't like google, what company DO you like?
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