I’m on MySpace
Why? I signed up a few weeks ago for the very first time as an experiment to see if it really worked. I’ve always heard that if you got onto MySpace, setup your profile a little, and just waited - that people would find you. And I can tell you that it is completely true.
But why did I wait so long? Because almost every user of MySpace seems to be a self-indulged teenager (or a 40-year old pervert pretending to be the same) that sits on MySpace all day and edits their profile to include audio from the top 40, flash animations of butterfly tattoos, and graphics that literally crash your computer when you load the page. It seemed completely and utterly valueless to spend any amount of time on MySpace.
But once you force yourself to get beyond that, there is a “valuable” service underlying in there somewhere. In amongst the error-ridden web site is a service that actually helps you to connect with people you wouldn’t have otherwise. Popularity wins in this case because finding the people I went to High School with is pretty much impossible without MySpace. In fact, 90% of them don’t even put their real names on MySpace so unless they provided a photo I still wouldn’t have found them.
So, I now have a profile. You can add me as a friend but I’m only accepting friends whom I’ve actually met in real life.
This will probably be the first, and last, post I do about MySpace. Similar to the first, and last, post that I wrote on my MySpace blog. Now if I could just find the latest Britney Spears song to add to my profile…
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January 16th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Don’t forget to add the annoying tiled background animated .gif that seems to make it on everyone’s profile. I left my MySpace page a while ago, and it was because I _didn’t_ want to find the people I went with to high school. Good luck.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:35 am
@ work everyone uses myspace as sortof the “off the record” communication rather than MSN messenger (which everyone uses to talk to each other about work).
other than that, there’s really no point.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Myspace was very problematic here, someone in the plant had listed what we did, and within 2 hours of the posting the Secret Service was here. I use AIM and YAHOO IM without issue, and there are others in the plant that use it too. With the hours I work 4P to 4A M-Th it’s one of the best ways to keep in touch with family and friends…….Liam
January 17th, 2007 at 4:22 am
You need facebook! Its like myspace, but better, less annoying teenagers, possibly less old men
January 18th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Not familiar with facebook, what is it?
January 18th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Think Myspace, with all the useful stuff and less of the “features”.
http://www.facebook.com
Its more closed off than myspace and more useful for actually communicating with people
January 18th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I will check it out, my son lives in Scotland, is it availble in the UK?
December 6th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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