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MySpace Eats Brains for Breakfast

Yes, I’ve been busy and sick since my last post, but mostly I’ve been lazy. And busy. But also lazy. This is my problem. I lack long-term focus and am easily side-tracked. I was diagnosed with ADD ages ago, but I hate taking medication unless I absolutely need it to, say, keep me living or from ripping my own skull off.

Anyway, I’ve been trying to condense the multitude of reasons I hate MySpace so much (and yet use it anyway) and managed to limit it to four. This is amazing since I generally lack the ability to condense anything into under a 200 item list.

1. The shit that people do to their pages. If you think hot pink text on a sparkling green background is readable, you should be sent to aesthetics hell.

2. A lot of my offline friends are idiots on the internet. My friends can’t type, don’t understand about spam, and are emo on the internet. It’s embarrassing to be associated with these people.

Why do you care if you’re not in my Top 4?

Oh, yes. I do not have a Top 8. I don’t like my friends enough when they’re online to keep most of them on there. In fact, I have Barack Obama and Dexter Morgan in my Top 4 because MySpace wouldn’t allow me to have a Top 2.

3. MySpace is now a verb. The first time a friend said “I’ll MySpace you later”, I nearly wept. It sounds dirty, but not in a happy way. :(

4. Now I use MySpace as a verb with certain friends who need to contact me. It’s terrible, really.

And yet I have a MySpace purely to keep up with people I might not have otherwise. I’ve found people I’ve not talked to for five to twelve years. I’ve found a girl I went to high school with only to find out he’s not a girl anymore which was handy to know up front the next time I saw him.

Months ago I had a dream about a girl I knew in primary school. She was a cool kid so I figured she may have grown up to be awesome. And, as a sidenote, I was sure she was gay.

Oh, how gaydar and cool-kid-detector failed me.

I decided to look her up on MySpace only to find out she’s now stupid, skanky, greasy, blonde1, alcoholic, and the kind of straight girl that makes out with other girls just so she can post pictures on the internet.

What are other problems with MySpace? And are any other social networking sites necessarily better? Or are there other aspects that make them just as annoying?

  1. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ;) ↩

Posted by Donna on 14 February 2008 at 17:22
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11 Comments

  1. Britney says:
    14 February 2008 at 23:23

    Great post! I like myspace, but of course it has it flaws, as you have mentioned. And I literally LOL’ed at “I’ve found a girl I went to high school with only to find out he’s not a girl anymore”

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  2. Lene says:
    15 February 2008 at 11:32

    You did a great job summarizing mostly everything of what is wrong with Myspace. I agree with all of those points, and I can add a few that branch off from yours. For example, people that chat using bulletins as if it were some sort of private messenger. At the end you have 34573408967 bulletins of one part (or worse, both parts) of someone’s bulletin conversation.

    Myspace is also somehow to blame for my academic lows last year :(

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  3. Kaylee says:
    16 February 2008 at 13:59

    The first two points are what made me stop using myspace. Tiny all-caps text, flashy backgrounds, emo quotes – oh, the things it was cool to do to your page! Myspace also loaded very slowly. Thankfully, my social circle has transferred to Facebook (which is 100 x better than Myspace, even with the endless annoying applications).

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  4. Donna says:
    16 February 2008 at 14:17

    Not to be twelve, but have you ever accepted someone’s (whom you loathe) friend invite on Facebook just so you could, ahem, throw food at them with the Food Fight! application? Repeatedly?

    Not that I have. *cough*

    What I don’t understand is people who hated me in high school and who I clearly hated back due to them trying to make my life hell, now finding me on Facebook or MySpace. Sadly, on MySpace, I cannot annoy them. On Facebook, there are so many options provided to me. It’s like they know petty revenge makes me gleeful inside.

    That said, my favourite Facebook application is the zombie one as I now have a multitude of zombie underlings. :P

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  5. Aisling says:
    16 February 2008 at 17:41

    I signed into MySpace for the first time, after 8 or so months of avoiding it, two days ago. Just the welcome page alone (so cluttered!) made me close the browser, back away for a few seconds, re-think my actions, and open Facebook. Even though Facebook is also quite annoying. At least people use their real names, instead of “~~*** BABBEEE CHICKAA!!***~~~” Or something. Also, I am sorry for using asterisks and ~ (whatever those are called) on your page.

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  6. Kristina says:
    17 February 2008 at 04:20

    Finally someone agrees with me!
    But at my school everyone uses BEBO, which is, if anything, even worse.
    All my friends type like this ‘omg yeah i lurve yooh too bbz’.

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  7. Sarai says:
    18 February 2008 at 19:55

    God I agree with this post so hard. Aesthetics Hell sounds like SUCH a good place.

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  8. Nellie says:
    18 February 2008 at 20:21

    Dexter is also in my top four. I’m pretty sure that makes us awesome.

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  9. Jem says:
    19 February 2008 at 13:34

    Ick, not myspack :p

    My boss uses chat speak occasionally. For some reason I find that weird. He’s better paid and theoretically more intelligent than me, he should write structured sentences. :|

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  10. Donna says:
    21 February 2008 at 01:36

    Also, I am sorry for using asterisks and ~ (whatever those are called) on your page.

    They’re tildes. And no problem–you’re illustrating a point. Now, if like my friends, you were using them in all seriousness, then we’d have serious issues, clearly. ;)

    All my friends type like this ‘omg yeah i lurve yooh too bbz’.

    I cannot look anybody in the eye (without giggling to myself, at least) who has ever used ‘bb’ or ‘bbz’ non-ironically.

    God I agree with this post so hard. Aesthetics Hell sounds like SUCH a good place.

    Aesthetics hell is the place of my dreams. In said dreams, those who damage my retinas are destined to burn for all eternity. There is no limbo in aesthetics hell.

    Dexter is also in my top four. I’m pretty sure that makes us awesome.

    Clearly! Though sometimes I wonder what people think when they see they’ve been passed over as top four material for a fictional serial killer! :D

    My boss uses chat speak occasionally. For some reason I find that weird. He’s better paid and theoretically more intelligent than me, he should write structured sentences. :|

    I had a teacher who used chat speak in an email! It wasn’t nearly as bad as the time I explained to my grade 10 English teacher the difference between ‘then’ and ‘than’, but it was still pretty disturbing.

    I was supposed to respect this person and listen to what they were teaching me! But once you find out they can’t type out simple words like ‘you’, it’s difficult to take them seriously!

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  11. Rikka says:
    13 August 2008 at 19:47

    I agree with you V. Every time I visit some of these MySpace profiles you have no idea how much clutter and mess it is. All those decorations you could hardly understand. Not only does this ‘verb’ thing happen to MySpace, but also to alot of social networking sites — take Xanga for instance.

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