MySpace Sucks
Apr 2nd, 2006 by Alex
MySpace sucks. Without mentioning the maturity of the users or the continuing controversy, here are a few reasons why MySpace sucks.
MySpace lacks structure.
Because MySpace allows users to customize the appearance of their page, the result is a clusterfu… oops, I meant a browsing nightmare. For example, take something as simple as a profile photographs. There doesn’t appear to be any limitations on dimensions. Some people’s photos are mere head shots; others are full body shoots that you need to scroll to see all of. As a result, some profile pages (and especially those with few than a handful of comments) don’t flow too well. This is just one example of how quasi-free-form profiles can be a bad influence on page structure.
The brain needs structure. When we visit a structured site we expect structured content; when information isn’t where it is expected to be, frustration sets in. You would think that the comments on one profile would bear a resemblance to comments on another profile. When this isn’t the case, it distracts from the overall experience in a negative way.
MySpace is gaudy.
I am not a designer. I know this. I know that I have zero design skills. I don’t attempt to make up for this shortcoming by plastering animated imagery on my page. Nor do I embed loud and poorly sampled audio clips which blindside potential visitors. It is a shame that others — specifically at least half (if not more) of all MySpace users — find this sort of thing necessary.
It reminds me of Geocities, circa 1998. Or was it Tripod with its 9MB quota, circa 1999? Or was it Angelfire in 1997? Either way, it was quite the debacle. Hundreds of thousands of people who just discovered how to use HTML, coming together in order to create the most hideously colored and flashing web pages in the not-so-quickly maturing online world. Had none of the above-mentioned companies offered free (with advertising) web pages, none of this crap would have ever happened. It took years of insults and coordinated jeering to get rid of them. The guilty parties growing up probably helped too. Just as we thought that all the gaudy personal web pages were fading away, MySpace re-introduces them… then gains an obscene amount of popularity just to spite history.
MySpace uses distracting advertising.
Naturally you’ve got someone else’s advertising slapped up on your page, banner-ad style. In the case of Geocities, it was the annoying three-clicks-to-get-rid-of-it sidebar. For some Tripod accounts, it was a pop-up ad. MySpace uses the flashing, animated, and otherwise obnoxious banner ads to detract from the user’s profile.
I don’t have a problem with advertising, so long as it doesn’t detract from the experience; my choice is Google’s AdSense program. Not that you could run AdSense on a MySpace profile anyways. I’ve yet to read any MySpace profile that could yield intelligible text for Google to parse. I don’t even know what sort of ads could be contextually relevant to the gibberish that today’s teenagers type.
MySpace reserves the right to your content.
I know that no one reads the terms of use or privacy policy, but they are important documents if you contribute anything to site that you don’t own. The following is an excerpt — emphasis mine — of the MySpace.com Terms of Use and Agreement, as of March 17, 2006. This excerpt is from the section entitled “Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com.”
“By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services.”
There are a lot of bands on MySpace that post music files to play/share. It shocks me that any band’s agent would allow their clients to go anywhere near MySpace, considering the emphasized portion above. They could use a band’s music in TV ads without attribution or compensation, or further sublicense said content to another organization for the same purpose. A band would have no legal recourse for receiving royalties or other fees for their part.
Should MySpace ever be purchased by a major label or perhaps a large conglomerate with a label other its wing (Time-Warner, anyone?), the license would probably be transferred to the new owner. That could make getting a contract with another label problematic.
That used to be the end of it, but then the following was added:
“This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a back-up or residual copy of the Content posted by you may remain on the MySpace.com servers after you have removed the Content from the Services, and MySpace.com retains the rights to those copies.”
At first that sounds fine… except that they retain the rights to their “archival” copies. There’s no telling how long their backups are kept until they are disposed of permanently, if ever.
Update: The terms of service were updated, however MySpace still retains a limited license to posted works.
MySpace friends are cheap.
MySpace “friends” are a dime a dozen, cheap to add, maintain, or ignore. At some point, the word friend became a verb. People friend others that they don’t even know. People friend others solely to increase their friend count. Some actually friend people that they do know and have met in person.
Some people actually have used the service to keep up with old friends, continue to keep in touch, and meet up outside of the MySpace arena. Of the people I talk to, this isn’t too common. There’s usually a reason that people part ways in the beginning; most of the time the original reason isn’t circumvented by a trendy web site.
Of the friended people whom a user knew in the past, most will never make an attempt to catch up offline. The majority will be content to leave brief messages on each other’s profiles, as opposed to email which requires a bit more interaction and care. I think that the leave-a-quick-one messaging culture has caused quality conversations to decay, affecting the way we relate to others.
The End?
MySpace sucks, clearly. Know of any other reasons? Let me know.
Update: This post was originally just a mild critique of MySpace’s aesthetics, a concern about intellectual property ownership, and an observation about the social relationships that are formed (as compared to those offline). It appears that I struck a chord in many people. I am still amazed at the response. As has always been the case all comments to this post will continue to be moderated. If your prospective comment is a short one liner, contains flame material, or is written in unintelligible IM-style gibberish it will be discarded. Well written comments will be approved if they contribute something that I feel is new or valuable, regardless of their take on MySpace. — July 29, 2007
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I greatly enjoyed reading your blog about how terribly clustered and overall shitty myspace is. You covered the topics that you recognized very well, but there are a few areas that you neglected to cover:
myspace makes me sad for humans.
I was one of those rare people who actually used myspace to keep in touch with my friends since I am living in another city now. The unfortunate thing is that the majority of these friends use myspace to propogate their drama. One friend of mine, rather than speek face to face with his ex-fiance, left her a long and nasty message in reply to a blog she wrote saying she wanted to be friends again one day. Something she had problems saying to his face as well.
Myspace allows people a buffer so that they can say exactly what their think without the stress of saying it to a person’s face. It allows for miscommunication because the vast majority of communication is non-verbal. It’s in the tone and the body language. Also because of this buffer people feel they have the right to be more harsh with the people they supposedly care about because they don’t have to see them hurt. One of my favorite quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes says;
“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you allow for the double effect of miscommunication and the buffer from your friends emotions, things get incredibly screwed up, more than they’d ever need to be if people would just face their fears and try to talk out problems like adults. Rationally. And in person.
Hi there. I just want to say thanks for your “My Space Sucks” page. I’ve been having all kinds of problems with MySpace users leeching my pics and I got a lot of useful information from the page you wrote.
I don’t know if you’re interested, but here’s what I’ve been doing to get rid of the file leechers who are stealing my bandwidth:
http://www.planetmut.com/myspacesucks/index.html
Thanks again
Mut
I have something you can add to your things that suck about myspace. When you recieve a new comment on myspace they send you and email with the subject “you have a new comment”, with this you think the email is going to include the comment, but no. You have to click on a link to view your comment, to then have to sign in. Even after this you still have to click to look at your comments. It’s really annoying and is the reason I terminated my account. Other that it telling me “I have to be signed in to do that” when i click the sign in button >=|.
Regards.
I read your article about MySpace. I found to be informative however I disagree with it in general. I have an account and I use it to keep in touch with high school and college alumni. I am also in a band and it is a fantastic way for me to let my friends know where and when we are playing. CBS, NBC and ABC as well as many cable networks profile their programs on myspace. There are as many as 70 million members. 70% of the websites on the internet are”browser nightmares”. That is nothing new. Furthermore, there are immature people everywhere. You seem to elude to some utopian place where we are free of predators, imature people, jerks, morons etc. People use the telephone for malicious and immature purposes. Do phones suck too?
P.S. The irony of your article was the MySpace advertising links at the bottom of your page
The most important reason of all is missing: Every day, the site has new errors. Anything from pages refusing to open for no particular reason, certain features always being shut down for “maintenance”, blah blah blah….. why is it that none of these other websites in the world have as many errors as Myspace does?
MySpace also sucks because it’s owners appear to have no intention to keep up its development. There is no excuse for the most popular site on the internet to have outages every day. I imagine that if any other company thought MySpace had a profitable business model, they would have bought the site by now and revised its infrastructure to make it profitable and more easily scalable.
I am writing this letter and taking my time to thank you! I too REALLY HATE MYSPACE.COM. Reading your blog/post has to be one of the best I’ve ever read, I am glad to see another one like yourself, dislike or hate myspace. My opinion on myspace is, “Has to be the stupidest and gayest thing i’ve ever seen. especially the people who use myspace are really… i don’t really have no words for it, but everytime i see the word, myspace, it really makes me want to go to the myspace company, go in their main office and kill everyone who works there..” that is how much I HATE myspace.. again.. I loved reading your blog on how clearly it “sucks”.
Thank you for having some sanity and the right mind..
Yes, myspace does suck. However, in regards to:
I think they set this right in the June 15, 2006 terms and conditions:
and
What about astrological signs in the profile that you can’t turn off? Sheesh, they may as well also assign everyone a Karma color and deal everyone tarot cards.
You asked for more reasons, I wonder if I’m the only one with this problem. I was stupid and had a profile at one time. I eventually came to my senses and deleted it, but the retards that run myspace don’t know how to fully delete an account. I am still receiving e-mail alerts when a blog entry is posted by some one who was listed as a friend. I’ve been trying to contact them to fix this problem no no avail. All they’ve been able to manage is send a standardized form letter explaining what a blog is and how to use it. I have sent a message explaining that my next step will be to hire an attorney; a bluff that I hope they fall for…
I would never put my band on MySpace. MySpace is way overrated. And I am sad to see virtually no improvement of their look and services since they have become wealthy corp.
“Universal sues MySpace for copyright infringement”
http://cnet.com.au/software/internet/0,239029524,339272299,00.htm
Only 12?
My space sux so much a55 it’s unreal. This Greg guy above must be a moron too. Phones and Myspace are not the same. It’s like comparing paper and pencil to a phone or 50 year old compass to a digital global posititioning system. N’ga please, get a life and a real web page. C’mon dude how hard is it to call your crew and tell em where you are playing. My my friends use flyers, phones, email, website and instant messenger to get the word out.
I seen a news report where a investigator or journalist crawled myspace into a database and then searched the profiles for sexual predators - found some 744 matches only half way into the data. Myspace’s comments reflected they did not have the ability to screen these sexual predators. Laugh, but some barely technical reporter was able to do it in his spare time by himself.
A quick Google
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,71948-0.html
MySpace blows goats!
-jerk
Just one point… Kevin Poulsen isn’t exactly non-technical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen
myspace sucks.
Just wanted to say I agree that myspace sucks. The only reason I’m on it is because everyone know doesn’t use the other social networking sites so I’m stuck with it till something better comes along. I also wonder what uproar would occur if you got to a big website like googe and it has a message from some google tech saying “We’re working as fast as we can to get search up and running again. Check back at 9am”. For a website as large as myspace it’s quite pathetic that they even have tech errors.
I do have a myspace profile and I like it to keep in touch with some friends who moved after high school. I still think over all that mypace sucks, I thought it would be a cool way to make new friends and that I would meet people to start a band with. The problem is that I think my myspace friends are phonies. I talk about starting a band and other people who are an my friends say they would like to start a band with me, but when I want to hang out and meet in person no one wants to. there is only 1 person that I didn’t already know that I have actually seen in real life face to face and to me that is sad, there are so many people who clamee to be looking for friends, but then never want to do anything or say they don’t have time, but they are always on myspace complaining that they have nothing to do.
Doesn’t anyone else know that the creators of MySpace are known for back door software, including spyware? They are KNOWN for it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/23/business/yourmoney/23myspace.html?ex=1303444800&en=68144371c2be06ac&ei=5088
I disagree with the vast majority of your rant.
I am on myspace. I personally know EVERYONE on my friend’s list (I do NOT add people that I don’t know unless they are artists…and then I usually delete them sooner or later). We did not stop speaking because we don’t like each other. High school ended. People grew up and did things like join the military, go to college, or simply move away. We keep in touch (both online and by telephone) and every now and then have “get-togethers”.
However, I did find a small bit of your blog enlightening. I (like most everyone else) did not read the “terms of use” agreement. I find it disturbing that Myspace believes that it can use any of my content just because it wants to without compensating me or getting my expressed consent. It’s too late now, as I have already uploaded too much stuff on there as it is. Also, I hate when people overload their pages with so much crap that it takes an hour to scroll down. I try to keep my page as simple as possible.
I agree with what was said about MySpace. I look at it from a web-developer’s perspective. A friend of mine and I create websites for people and have come to gain an understanding of the art it truely is to create a webpage. A lot goes into it. And, a lot of it is never even seen by most users. We make sure even the code working behind the scenes is a clean as possible.
We have, as some might call it, a talent at making websites. We aren’t great at it yet, but we have the ability to do it. Not everyone does. And, most people who use MySpace or the internet in general do not have the ability. MySpace is atrocious in its design. Even on a clean, freshly created page, it is impossible to locate what everything does. There is a blog feature that is not incorporated directly onto the main page, but there is a comment system that is. Pages tend to be so wide they require scrolling, not matter your screen size, and pages can grow so long that it would take several minutes to get to the bottom of them.
The colors are painful many times and having music play the instant the site comes up is horrible. As far as my thoughts go, everyone who wants to communicate with friends online should go through an online course that gives a basic understanding of html, and then they could get a blog and use that html information to create tables to place pictures in that they could scale to size. This is asking far too much for many though, I’m sure, who don’t want to learn anything. This is apparent when you check out MySpace pages. As far as giving personal information away is concerned, you don’t have to. People choose to do it. I don’t understand why you would. The only MySpace I’ve ever owned is a fake person that I used just to see how many friends I could get. It… is sickening.
All in all, MySpace is fairly worthless. If you want to keep up with friends, do something that requires effort. Using MySpace creates the illusion that you are communicating with a computer, not another person. Message boards tend to have the same effect as well. Talk face to face, on the phone, or at least in an email. Or, learn how to build a webpage (which is not difficult), and create one at a freeweb site.
An interesting rant, but one thing to bear in mind is that there are probably hundreds and thousands of musicians who have songs on there, making for an even smaller than a one-in-a-hundred-thousand-or-so chance that MySpace would happen to pick one of YOUR songs to use for a commercial (or whatever else). Not to step on any toes (I agree with nearly everything you posted), but I own a MySpace with some of my self-produced music on it, and I would be thrilled if I were watching a commercial one night, and my music suddenly popped on in the background.
Sure, it could make getting a record deal tricky for that particular track, but you have to bear in mind that MySpace is NOT a music label, and therefore is not entitled touch any music that you have not uploaded onto their servers. Some people just want exposure any way they can get it, and feel MySpace is the easiest way to go about doing such.
That’s not to say MySpace isn’t slimy for putting something like that into their terms of use without at least being decent enough to place it at the very top or put it in bold. I know a lot could say ‘just read the terms, dude’, but this day and age, nobody has the attention span to sit and stare a massive wall of text for an hour. That’s because if people were actually able to read and understand the terms of use in a minute or so, they most likely wouldn’t want to join.
Clearly, MySpace is just a tool to get a few people rich while exploiting the habits of a bunch of confused teenagers, who feel a need to validate themselves online instead of in person. Why not just gold off on being a greedy prick and let people post their music and thoughts without worry, Tomboy? ;P
Good article.
taking myspace too seriously sucks.
LOL Myspace
one more thing no one has mentioned…
myspace is owned by the news corporation, hence FOX, the current personal US presidential news channel.
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thanks…
This is a great article, and I quite agree with everything that you have stated. The amount of basic crap that myspace is is ridiculous. I also agree with Joshua’s view that myspace is designed by people that don’t know how to create a website. myspace users are stupid. They are just going to get into trouble. Remember how in the 1990s and early 2000s what AOL was? The ISP for people who didn’t know any better… And the 120+ million users of myspace don’t seem to either.
I find that this parody/joke puts it sort of the right way:
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/824.html
(btw, i only used my aol email address because it is my least used one.)
Myspace is just another example of technology creating more superficial, complacent, phony human behavior and demeaning the value of true friendship. Such a shallow and fast paced out today in tommorow society. Cell phones were bad enough…Sometimes you just want NOT be able to be reached. Sometimes you wan to carry on a real conversation. Harder things to come by these days it seems.
THIS IS PISS ME THE FUCK OFF, MYSPACE IS SUCH A PEACE OF SHIT , THAT MY PC TELLS ME THAT THE PAGE CANT BE ENTERD OR THAT IT DOSENT EXIST , HAHA
It’s good for breaking up relationships too. When my girlfriend saw 30 women on my friends list she had a fit. I had to take off to keep her from snooping and getting herself worked up for no reason.
I agree with you as well. Myspace is nothing more than a large high school. It breeds such a self absorbed, immature culture, that you would almost have to believe the myth of the “Dumbing Down of America”. There are basically three types of people I’ve seen on Myspace…
1.) Shallow guys looking for sex.
2.) Fat girl models.
3.) Cliquey suburbanites who add 200 “friends” a day.
It’s so stupid.
myspace is just a sucker for heards. omg some of that shit i’ve seen on there wow…a bunch of idiots, they spend like hours, and hours of their lifes hoping to “make friends” and get hundred of bulletins wishing them a happy birthday! wow.!
I am so glad im not the only one who’s read that ‘terms and use’ policy. Forwarned, and half scorned i was appauled to even think myspace had those rights. Therefore i will never be a part of the myspace life that so many people have become accostumed. I cant wait for it to die down like anglefire did, or like Geocities…. Its only a matter of time before people start sewing people over myspace and its idiological ways. But i do have to say, Tom **if thats even his real name** will probably take over the world.
I agree, Myspace sucks! I liked tthe groups but there were a lot of 15-17 yr olds on there asking advice on how to get pregnant… I have a hard time with this being 24 years old and still childless unlike everyone else around me. There was too much drama on there, too many sluts looking for money for sex or too many pervs looking for children to prey. Myspace has caused a rift with the relationship between my brother and the mother of his twin girls so now nobody in my family can see them, it’s rediculous.
I am a YA author who has used myspace extensively for the past two and a half years. I accumulated over 71,000 friends and probably hold the largest author profile on myspace.
I use myspace, primarily, as a means to contact readers of fantasy and to spread word about a novel I’ve written called Luthiel’s Song.
For one thing, I am fanatical about responding to fan mail. Unfortunately, as myspace has a hair trigger policy on spam, due my high daily usage, I was flagged and as of this writing no longer have use of my profile.
I do not use bots. I am not a porn site.
I promote literacy to students aged 11-17 and I write books.
In order to save all my hard work and prevent my profile from becoming deleted, I contacted myspace directly. Not only did it take them three days to reply to my first email, the original message I received stated my profile would be usable again immediately with all changes having set within 24 hours.
24 hours has come and gone but I still do not have access to my profile’s ability to email, request friends, and send comments.
I contacted myspace once more.
Their answer to me — ‘wait another 24 hours.’
All for something I never did in the first place — spam.
I am of two minds about myspace. On one hand, it is a fantastic platform for networking and gives artists like me an amazing opportunity (or so it seems). On the other, profile deletion occurs very often and the reasons tend to be nothing short of arbitrary. In all, I’d say the relationship between myspace and its clientel is adversarial at best.
Despite all of this, I happen to need myspace. I sincerely wish there was another site on the internet that provided what myspace does but without the prospect of an axe hanging over my head if I send replies out to my fanmail.
Thoughts??
Fantasy Scribbler, you could try using AOL’s Kids service and REDZone to get kids to read your books, because on myspace you wont really get 11-13 year olds since they require people to be 14 or older to access it.
I’m just a random person who showed up and read this blog– I’ll admit it.
I abolutely despise MySpace.
Perhaps for more personal reasons, though.
It’s a place to let the drama bombs drop. I’ve read hurtful, mean things from people– I don’t even dare to speak to them anymore.
I’ve watched it change people, inside and out.
It’s amazing how one website can do so much social damage.
I totally agree with this blog, MySpace. In fact PC World rated this website as the Number 1 worst website. I might only be 14 years old but I see through MySpace like glass and what it is all about. Anybody that tries to defend MySpace is totally fucked in the head. MySpace has become a burden on the internet and I don’t see anytime soon of this junk website ever been destroyed. Not to mention the evil SOB that owns it.
Thanks to Piece of shit MySpace I have cought spyware on my computer that it has caused me to put full on security apps and a decent firewall. And can you believe I’ve only visited Myspace a few times! I don’t and will never have an account with Myspace. And by the way 14 years old is too young to be talking to strangers online.
Why doesn’t myspace just stop pretending and change its name to whorespace already? They’re not fooling anyone.
It’s the attention whore capital of the internet.
Well, 13 years old is the legally COPPA compliant law to talk to complete strangers. Myspace is a whole 365 days compliant ahead with the COPPA rules.
Whilst myspace still is nothing but a website for pr0n, literally. I can easily go there now and find a hundred pages with full size images of girls 100% exposed, with no censorship.
Myspace SUCKS.
Get The Fuck over it! People Like You Are Really Annoying,With All The God Damned Complaining!.
No you get over it. You must be one of the morons out there. And by the way everyone is entitled to their opinions and this is not a compliant.
Hey i like myspace, it’s pretty cool.
Yes, I had a MySpace account for about a month and deleted it. All you’re really doing is advertising their big gawdy banners to everyone you invite. What a ZOO.. I prefer to stay in touch with my ‘REAL’ friends by simple email
AOL and MySpace should get married and call it “a place for idiots!”
I agree with most all of these points in here. I find it interesting how in the last 10 years communication has changed for the worst in dramatic ways. Most of communication is non-verbal so with text messaging, email, myspace etc. we learn to take, not only the vowels out of our language but the tone, eye contact, and body language.
Each day it scares me how inhuman we are becoming and how out of touch with reality mankind is becoming
Aaron, you hit it right on the head. It’s crazy how impersonal people have become.
I understand the general concept of Myspace and I can see how it can be used in positive ways. Unfortunately like any form of communication it can be abused. I find that in general it is a forum for sad, lonely and insecure people to have daily validation of themselves as human beings from other people of the same caliber. It makes them feel important, wanted, popular, etc. Problem is once you get most of these people in public; they have the intellect and social skills of a jelly fish. I think probably because they spend their time creating a webpage of an image of themselves, rather than spending time in activities that enhance them as actual human beings.
In closing….I guess people need to do what they do to get the through there lives..but keep my life off of it thanks!!!
This is all very stupid. Sounds like a bunch of people finding ANY reason to nag about Myspace. The arguments you’re coming up with are garbage. Honestly, who cares if Myspace is owned by Fox? All of what the baggers are complaining about can be simply avoided.
First of all the idiot who decided Myspace was too much because he would get a comment notification in his e-mail and it would be too much for him to sign in and check it. You could actually stop the notifications, therefore reducing time wasted. Also, you could just click the comment link on the Myspace homepage to view comments.
Some one also stated something about immature people. People it’s America! On top of that it’s the internet.
It ruins relationships. That’s retarded I have actually been in a relationship for about 4 years and I have a Myspace. My fiance, since day 1, has not found my page unacceptable and I feel I have an average Myspace page.
Also, Some one said the layou or something along those lines makes no sense. That’s exactly why you could customize it. Everyday Myspace is becoming more and more versatile in it’s design. The account holder has more options.
Basically,if you don’t like Myspace don’t use it.
If you don’t use it you won’t have to worry about the immature children, bad friends, ads, and Tom.
Myspace sucks. I tried it for all of a hot minute. Was immediately bored. I realized that so many out there used this site because they don’t have real friends and this is the way to interact. However, this type of interaction leads to no intimacy. My ex was one like this. His site had so many losers on it. It made him feel special. What really threw me was his adding people that were under 17 and he was over 26. Sad. All in all, he never got anything out of it. He lost me, he has few friends he hangs with, and his social life includes put up dumb comments that he thinks are witty. From what I’ve been told, he’s still on there, trying to recapture his teen years. Sad.
Myspace is a loser website with full of losers and morons and sluts. I salute anybody who thinks theres more to the world than Myspace. As a said before we don’t need online Junk.
I must agree with you all. Myspace is evil. those are looking for something better then that abomination of evil could try tagworld.com (i believe that’s the name). I learn of that places existence during my travels of the internet. I have actually noticed that alot of the Myspace users are Emo kids.
I’ve always thought that Myspace sucks — I can’t stand it. No, I don’t give a rat’s ass what your favorite color is, or what the hell you did today, or how many “friends” you have. One of the most pretentious and obnoxious website trends to date.
“Myspace is for 13-year-old girls and pedophiles.”
- my ex-boyfriend
I’ve tried a few social networking sites, and Myspace was the worst. It seems to be rank with stupid slutty teenage girls who post half-naked pictures of themselves, the pedophiles who hunt them, and don’t even get me started on the emo/hipster crowd that takes ultimate pride in “friending” obscure bands and spouting terrible poetry about their pain and the meaning of life. If I ever see another bio about a girl who thinks of herself as “special and rare like a unicorn,” I think I’ll go deaf, blind, and dumb.
The interface was so messy and unintuitive that I never did a single thing with my page - it is still untouched to this day. The only reason why I still have it is that I can’t be bothered to go back and delete it. The search function is totally useless.
In short, I agree with everything you’ve said. Myspace is total garbage. I’m devoted to facebook now, and happily so. People who say they’re the same thing should give facebook a try before they make up their minds (I did!).
Thanks for the article!
Myspace needs a 12 step program to get rid of it.. fu**ing addicting man i swear!!!
I have had MySpace for a long time. It is a wasteful & addicting. People sit at home & rot away on MySpace. Artists are pathetic as well. Cluddering up MySpace. Half the music in 2007 sucks. Garbage. Anyways it is a temperary moment of happiness.
“Slutspace”
I totally agree Steve. it is a slutspace- female AND male. My ex gave up on finding someone on myspace. They were all too young, too stupid and didn’t want him. (They were smarter than me in that respect.) So, now he’s dating his pals (he didn’t want them before) from high school and being rejected sexually. I guess myspace is as close to sex as he’ll ever get from now on. (I’m doing well WITHOUT using myspace to hook up.)
Also, antares~ it’s amazing how many “rare and special” people, like unicorns, are on myspace. Do they realize that unicorns aren’t real? Oh, wait…if you believe it then it’s will become a reality. I’m a gorgeous super model. Yes, I’ll put my pic on myspace and become famous. Yes, I’m Heidi Klum’s very distant cousin via marriage.
amen…i have had a myspace for awhile and i finally took it down after it had been hacked by phishing scammers. I changed my password 6 times in 2 days….WTF kind of crappy security is that?
WARNING!!!! For all of those young people out there… Girls, don’t post a picture of yourself naked on MySpace before you have a crazy old man stalking you, because you do know your information is out there wright? And for those of you that love to throw pictures of yourself drinking out there, you probably think it’s the coolest thing in the world… Well it’s not, I guess I’m supposed to admire that you’re a drunk?. Our actions make an impact on people, if you do something I’m pretty sure some 14 year old kid will follow. For those of you that have a MySpace- learn to identify what’s good and what’s not before you go public with it. If you do have a MySpace and read this pleas have this in mind I’M NOT PERFECT AND YOU AREN’T EITHER… Please don’t ruin society by having your unstable life posted on MySpace for someone to follow.
MySpace sucks no one gives a flying shit about you you being the greatest human, because we all know you’re not. Why don’t you talk to your real friends in person, maybe they can help you feel better about yourself unless they have a MySpace too… in that case then you are all F–KED.
We all know what the myspace community needs…
A nice big cup of shut the f*** up.
Myspace sucks! For so long i thought that i was the only freaking person surfing the web who thought myspace.com blew. Have you noticed that any emo kid who picks up a camera suddenly becomes an artist, just cause they know how to work a camera. I would just like to thank everyone of you guys who agrees with me. I’ll say it one more time MYSPACE SUCKS!!!!!!
I for one have a myspace, but I have to agree with this blog entry. The only reasons I even keep the site anymore is to find any new bands I otherwise wouldn’t hear, to find out about new horror writers/movies, and to help promote my own work (being an aspiring horror novelist/director). I mean, I’m guilty of having over 500 friend, but a majority of my friends are metal bands, horror writers, horror movies, pro wrestlers etc. I only talk to less than twenty of my friends that much, and I met them all elsewhere. I normally talk to them over the phone, in person, or through IM, so truthfully I don’t need the site to make friends.
And also, the main thing I can stick up for my space with is that those 14 yo girls that got attacked by 30 something men brought it on themselves. They were the ones that sent naked pictures to older men just because the older guy asked. It’s all about being accepted.
I guess being raped and murdered is a small price to pay for having someone like you huh?
But truthfully My Space sucks. And on another note, it’s not even worth complaining either. All you’re doing is giving the site even more publicity, which is not a good thing. Speaking of which, it’s not even worth responding, I just felt the need to give my own two cents worth.
Myspace is a way for kids to keep in touch. Our cousins live in Southern California and that’s the only way that we are in touch with them. Myspace let’s you show your personality, if you choose to show it. Some people choose to be immature and tell people where they live or put images of them that aren’t acceptable, but we are not like that. Your website is immature and you make it out that others are like that too. We’re not trying to put you down, but your website should not only show the negatives but show the positives also.
Sincerely, kayla and melanie
p.s. There’s no need for bashing Myspace. If you choose not to like it or use it, that’s your choice but don’t put other people down.
The forever used excuse “It’s the only way we can stay in touch” is absurb…
unless you/they don’t know how to use email, a telephone or a mail box…
and it saves you having to say anything to anyone without the world being able to see it.
As for young girls sending pictures of themselves to strangers… desperate or stupid, take your pick.
Also, regarding myspace terms & conditions…
They may have (been forced into) changed these preventing them from copying, distributing, using, etc any material posted on myspace, by it’s users. But this only applies to use whom agreed to the terms & conditions after June 2006. All those whom signed previous to this are still eligible for “theft” from myspace.
MySpace has become the replacement for life.
I had an account for about 4 yrs. I woke up one morning after having many of the thoughts mentioned above, and deleted it.
NO ONE NOTICED. And does that tell anyone what kind of friends I have? No, it tells me I actually did the right thing. Because if people I know can’t find the time to dial a telephone number and see if I’m alive, but they do have the time to turn on a computer, start a browser, sign on to MySpace, and then go through their “friends list” and have trouble trying to find out why they are a friend or two short, these people have become social invalids.
I never took the time to customize my page because I saw no need. But I soon discovered the need in the worst way possible: If your Myspace page is boring, YOU in turn, are boring. Ironically, it is the people who take the time to constantly renovate their pages to make sure they keep getting page visits that are the most boring, because instead of going out and being social, they rather sit on their asses and make sure their page appeals to an audience of more lazy asses who rather sit at home and make sure their MySpace page appeals to more lazy asses.
Do you not see the cycle? If you do not, perhaps you need to get out more. Like me. I would not sign on Myspace for days at a time, because I was actually going out and living a REAL LIFE. Dancing with REAL PEOPLE. Drinking with REAL PEOPLE. BEING SOCIAL, WITH REAL PEOPLE!
And then I would come home and log on to MySpace, and I’d have messages reading: “Where ya been stranger?” and “Why dont you talk to me no more?”. The best was: “Hey are you back from the dead yet?”
Sorry, I’ve actually been living. If you’d like to join me, I’ll be out at a place with my friends. But if you don’t want to, I understand. You can always go to MySpace, a place for friends…..
To do nothing.
Ever.
I recently put up a myspace page essentially so I could read blogs and get content on pages put up by 08 Presidential candidates, and bands I like…just an information tool for me. First I start getting emails, that I have emails I have to log in and look at. All of them are spam. Then I get friend requests, and I think “I haven’t customized my page yet, someone else must just like the favorites I put down or the bands/politicians I put down as friends.” No, just someone who after you accept the request sends you emails, “check out my webcam, my friend Suzie and I are going to put on quite a show…”. And if I have my speakers on, every 5 minutes an animated emoticon screams at me from the banner ad at the top of the page. I read profile comments on other pages and 80% of them sound like they’re written by retarded monkeys. It seems to me that the internet itself is the ultimate information tool, and if you know how to use it effectively, you can filter out the crap and find what you’re looking for, but on myspace, I try to use this as a targeted information tool and I just drown in crap.
In reply to Kayla and melanie, the excuse that “It’d the only way to keep in tough” I will not buy it, uh hello isn’t there e-mail? E-mail will keep in you touch and private. Believe me nothing is worse than other knowing who you talk to and who you make friends with. But anyway Myspace s simply a place for bludgers who want to sit at their computer all day and write useless message to one another, perhaps we should wait another five years before this “Myspace Fad” will die down. I do browse certain myspace pages for people I want to know more info on, but I generally stay away from Myspace altogether. But simply Myspace is simply teaching people to be anti-social and it’s time for people to leave their computers and have a breath of fresh air and a friendly chat to a “Real Person”
Danny you can always turn the email option off.
andrew the site has new errors because it is constantly expanding as has new features. with millions of users, yeah, its gonna take a little work to get it right. but once they sort something out, its there to stay, and it works. you couldn’t do it.
asmadeous your thought and intelligence is worse then most of the crap i see on myspace.
you can put your karma colour and tarot cards up if you wish - myspace is about individual expression.
Shelia turn off your email alerts, or mark it as spam.
Jerkface leet never was cool. greg wasn’t implying they are the same, he was comparing the methods of spreading malicious and immature content.
james smith you’ve hit the nail on the head. everyone uses myspace which makes it perfect for networking, which is why its so popular.
chris its spelt “claim”. maybe no one wants to meet you coz you suck.
Pat their good at computers.
Deric yeah someone did mention that, and in much better, clearer detail
GRUBBS DONT BLAME MYSPACE FOR YOUR ERRORS WHEN YOU CAN’T EVEN TURN OFF CAPSLOCK
John your relationship problems arn’t at the fault of myspace but of the maturity of you partners.
Courtney its spelt sueing.
Jessica you cant get hacked if you dont give out your password. Learn what sites to trust.
Lucy your wisdom not to post naked pictures in invaluable
Jared you were definatly wasting your time, its good you deleted it.
Because myspace is a platform for thousands of young people worldwide, there is often drama and love, hate and all sorts of relationships emerging. But its nothing that doesn’t happen in the real world. It’s all about socializing, and its up to you how you go about it.
Myspace isn’t beautiful, but if Myspace controlled the music, colour and style of everyone’s profile, it wouldn’t be very fun for everyone who likes their individualism, or simply enjoys having a “nice” design. You may not agree with their layout, but its only a matter of opinion.
90% of communication is non verbal anyway.
I really do enjoy using myspace to meet new people.
I’m surely not the *only* person who can add a friend and meet them within a month? It’s a great way to get to know people!
Greg: That television markets are utilizing MySpace speaks nothing to its quality, merely to that fact that its got a lot of impressionable visitors. There’s no utopia, however I am alluding to the fact that there’s more riff raff on MySpace than visible on other sites. You and I can thank Google for the relevant ads; both for their irony and the income they provide.
Andrew: Most large sites have growing pains, especially when they start pushing the limits of the technology they’re using, hardware that the site runs on, the code running the site, etc. Code that runs fine for small sites suffers under heavy load. Most sites never considered that they’d grow to be so large and the developers never envisioned having to deal with so many people. Slashdot, LiveJournal, Digg… just a few examples, but all have experienced growing pains that had to be dealt with… MySpace is no different in this regard.
Robin: See above comments to Greg. I’m sure that both the code and the monstrous amount of user data has become unmanageable for a few people to handle. The nightmare of rewriting it to enterprise-level loads, especially while the site is running, is a task that few would choose to undertake.
Sheila: I haven’t heard of other people having the same problem. Hopefully they’ll abide and stop sending the updates. Worst case, you could just filter all mail from MySpace into the trash.
Jerkface: Although its frightening to see convicted sex offenders trolling MySpace (and other social networking sites), I have mixed thoughts about their decision to identify their users. When is it going to stop?
Aaaron & Rosie: I believe that technology enables. It enables some to sit at their desks. It enables others to meet new people and develop new relationships. Those who are glued to the PC and spouting gibberish are probably the same who would still be sitting on the couch in front of the TV. I think every individual is accountable.
Adrian: My reasons for disliking MySpace are limited but thought out. Who cares about ownership? I do. I care if a social networking site is owned by Fox. Having mass media companies advertising on sites is one thing, but it irks me when the mass media companies are running the sites; based on previous comments it appears that I’m not the only one.
Sean: I dount that my little blog compares to the media attention being given to MySpace, especially with the recent sex offender headlines (see above). My goal was the same as yours, to give my own two cents.
Jared: Lots of folks feel the need to create something pleasing for the masses to see. I think you’ve got the idea though, that these folks could be out in personal with the masses instead of swapping online comments with their neighbors down the street.
Dale: I hadn’t realized that it had degraded so much. Good luck with the filtering.
Courtnay: You beat me to it on a few of ‘em and were my inspiration for taking some time this afternoon. Thanks.
Whew! I couldn’t get to everyone. To all of those who agreed in some fashion, it’s good to know that I’m not the only one. Thanks for your comments. For those who don’t agree but were well spoken and respectful of my opinions, thanks for your comments. To those who couldn’t handle the concept of rational articulation and felt the need to bitch about my opinions, I probably approved your comments out of amusement. If you hone those writing skills and make a valid argument next time I’ll take a minute to reply.
Until next time!
- Alex
Alex: I too forgot about this rant until I seen a link in my email to it. When I found it, it must have hit high on the search list for “myspace sucks” and now there is so much in that same search that I can’t sift through all of it. I have to believe most people made it here by the same method so much of the same mentality was here before reaching this destination.
Courtnay: Eat a dick!, it wasn’t leet it was a mere diversification to avoid any potential profanity filter that worked just fine. Now that I see there isn’t a filter I say to you “reach in your bag o’ dicks and eat one!”
Myspace still sucks, I love the fact I was able to catch some back episodes of 24 on an official myspace page but then I recalled who owed the joint and I recognized I was lured in and caught off guard to almost think to myself “gee this place is only half as sucky as I thought”. I came to my senses and say again with conviction now “Myspace still blows goats and anyone who uses it productively could do so on a real communication platform elsewhere and appear to have twice the intelligence doing so” By using Myspace you are in fact saying “this is the best I can do and I am OK with demeaning myself by putting up with the suck”.
My two-bits,
jerkface
I see alot of interesting thoughts and opinions. I totally agree with all above. I never caught on to THAT myspace TREND! Im not a sheep. I prefer the ol’ fashioned way of social interaction face to face. Fuck myspace.com I HATE IT! need I say more i’d just be repeating what all the above intellegent people had to say.
I built this page for my brother, who is a guitarist in a Boston based metal band. I think its clean; and I think it looks & sounds good. I welcome any and all feedback.
http://www.myspace.com/divebomb33
I could not agree more, I mean I get frustrated every time i see a myspace webpage, it’s like the internet nigtmare, i dont see any future in that thing, just a waste of time.
I was brought on to myspace by a friend of mine. He told me you will find people you haven’t seen in years and people you graduated with. He was right. Nearly half of my graduating class has a myspace. But the only good myspace has to “Trying” to keep in touch with friends. Out of the 40+ friends I have I only message 5 a day. Cuase they are the only ones that stay in touch wiht me. Most of thtem send me one message and that’s it. But other then that myspace is a place for girls under 13 to place pics of them being raunchy, and saying they are older then they really are. My 9 year old niece has one and it really angers me. And Tom states he put an age blocker on to website. And the only reason these pre teen girls post thses raunchy pics is to get attention. Myspace is a sexual peadetors dream. And it makes me sick. There is some good, but the negative reasons out weigh the positives.That is my two cents.
My opinion of myspace is growing more and more negative by the day. I mean, I can’t believe that I thought I could actually use that site to keep up with old friends. The only good that the website has done was show me just how shallow people can be. Of all the “friends” that I’ve made over the course of 7 to 10 years, only 2 of them actually write me daily. The others just “friended” me to add me to their “friend” count. That was a real eye opener, as it hurt to see people that I’ve helped out of many jams play me as if I were just a stranger. I mean, when I was around them, I was the best friend that I could possibly be, and now I’m just a photo on your friends list. It sickened me. I’ve long since gotten rid of my profile, and now I don’t even try to contact those individuals. I meet new “actual” people, have real conversation, and have moved on to better, brighter, and ACTUAL things. I agree with everyone on this site. Myspace just breeds superficiality and anti-socialism. If this is what is supposed to teach kids how to communicate, I feel sorry for our future…as intelligent conversation will slowly die off.
I’ve been trying to erase my myspace.com/robaux page for almost a year now to no avail. I’ve stripped out what little content there was, as I was actually there trying to maintain contact with friends. But, the older myspace got, the less useful it was.
More ads, more flash, more bullshit, but also more restrictive, more crashing, and more stupid. I grew from a wary tolerance of it to outright hatred, and I openly mock people who use it.
Your points about Geoshitties and Cry-pod are very apt. I attempted an Angelfryer page once, and immediately called up and ordered my own domain name back in 1995. I’ve hosted my own websites ever since. Hell it hardly costs anything to run your own site at all, even then, and now there are hosts for ten dollars a year with free domains.
If you haven’t got ten bucks to run your own blog, that says two things: One isn’t intelligent enough to do it, or one is too poor to even own a computer.
Myspace started out with potential, but that potential shifted from social network, to spam bucket. Good riddance.
180 million users? I highly doubt it. There are barely 300 million Americans, and I find that most people outside of America aren’t as stupid.
Oh, wait, most “users” are actually commercial spam… that explains it.
Well said and I agree 100%. The only thing that I’d like to add is how often the site does not load properly or is not working. I find this to be the case especially with bands - the embedded players often give an error message, and if you cannot hear the music or access the site…. well - what’s the point?
Here’s why I think MySpace sucks:
http://chanweiyee.blogspot.com/2007/06/myspace-sucks.html
I definitely agree with the person who posted this blog. People just add people to increase their friend count. I have friends - scratch that - people who I thought were my friends on my list. They RARELY talk to me, unless I write first. Oh and whenever someone comments a pic, they’re like “Looking good…..Comment my pix.” I think that is utterly stupid. It makes me want to punch myself in the face 25 times! Then I realize Myspace isn’t that important after all. That’s why I don’t go on Myspace as often as I used to. I used to literally beg for comments, messages, etc. I realized how pathetic it is. Nowadays. people use Myspace to gain popularity. (”Oh, well I have 3,646 friends”) I just hate how people write on myspace, too. It’s so annoying. (Y0 WUTSz G00D, H0Mii3 G?”) Or maybe it’s just that I’m a grammar freak. Myspace sucks!
*Well, I’m far too tired to write anything else. I plan to read the rest of your blogs!”
[...] Prima di iniziare a scrivere questo articolo ho fatto un piccolo google-test: ho inserito il termine “myspace sucks” e… wow sono in buona compagnia, c’è parecchia gente che condivide le mie opinioni. In particolare questi due articoli valgono la pena di essere letti: Ted Wallingford trova ben 10 motifi per cui MySpace fa schifo. Uno di questi (l’età di chi lo usa) potrebbe anche essere un motivo del suo successo. L’età media è molto vicina ai 15-18 anni… beh forse un 15enne non chiede molto di più di un sistema dove ficcare tutte le fesserie che gli vengono in mente. Un altra serie di buini motivi per odiare MySpace ce li da Alex su Technology & MSG …. [...]
MySpace really is a bad website, look at all the people who get so addicted to it, shows you how many stupid people there are. Any smart person would know to stay as far as they can away from it, anyone else just flocks over and becomes obsessed with it, because they think it’s “cool”. Worst part is, there is no need for this website at all! If you want to talk to people use instant messaging programs, the phone, or e-mail! I’ve never had an account and I can talk to whoever I want whenever I want.
Another thing, if you actually have an account on there and look at it daily, don’t try to say that you think MySpace sucks or you hate it, because if you really thought that then you wouldn’t use it in the first place. Jeez.
@Roxy - Punching is the right idea, go punch the MySpace users.
There are better things out there to be addicted to than MySpace.
That’s all I have to say about it ^^
ok the ppl against myspace r talking about how they have “REAL LIVES”
if u have “real lives” then why r u on a website bashing on another website?
if u ask me that doesnt sound like u have a life.
if u did have a life, u wouldnt be here taking ur time to write shit about a website that YOU DONT EVEN USE.
ppl who like it, go on it. u cant stop them.
ppl who dont like it, dont go on it. simple as that.
so why r u trying to make such a big deal out of a website? oh wait i know why BECAUSE U HAVE NO LIFE ^.^
-Ashlee
[Myspace and Facebook] both are for [people] who like being their own paparazi and think they are popular if they have 500 friends. Too bad you don’t talk to any of them in real life. get a life and read a book. just think how much more this country could accomplish if every kid spent half the time on his myspace as they did reading a book and actually learning something!
Jason that is a ridiculous generalization. I can see it’s not a personal attack or anything, but I can say I read quiet a lot, and still have time for my 500+ friends. I would also safely assume the thousands of people on myspace are not all illiterate prats that can’t spell “paparazzi”.
MYSPACE SUCKS ASS I HATE MYSPACE I HOPE IT BLOWS UP
It doens’t matter if bands do host on MySpace, these bnds suck and will never become anythying anyhow, hence MySpace is a site for chavs, emo’s and wannabe’s wo are nothing but failures in real-life.
I don’t see Ghandi or Queen having MySpace pages for example.