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
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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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: Tough spot you’re in. As much as I dislike MySpace, I’d agree that your fan base (and potential market) is going to be there. As far as the spam, does MySpace seem to restrict how many comment emails you can send?
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!
Wow. When I wrote this entry over a year ago I never would have imagined that so many people would voice their opinion on the quality of MySpace. With a few exceptions, I’ve found it difficult to keep up with the comments. So ignoring a few flames and unintelligible comments, here’s a batch of responses to your comments. If you like or dislike what you read, share the URL with your friends or check out some of the more recent entries on the site… you might find something there worth responding to. Thanks again for visiting.
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.
I think myspace and facebook are completely different, coming from a person who has both.
myspace is a self-centered, attention-seeking website, whereas facebook, before the applications, was a clear, uncluttered way of networking.
my opinion of myspace is getting more negative by the day.
1) the errors are too much. every single day, and the server is incredibly slow sometimes!
2) the people. I’m a teenager myself, but I really don’t want people who give themselves ridiculous names like HelenHorror™ etc. get real.
also, jason, that’s a tad ridiculous. I read too much, but still have time for myspace, facebook, and work.
hi! i just want to say that no one smart does that and that myspace could use songs, but he agent prolly told them that and might have made a deal w/ myspace! who knows! MYSPACE ROX MY SOX!
Sup [mofos], yal b dissen my web sight. Hell no, al go up side all your heads mofos. Myspace is a place where anyone of any background can come and make friends, listen to music by bands they like and express them selves in a positive way now Wat’s wrong with that?
peace out yal
TOM =D
Chill out you losers. It’s only a website.
Talk about how retarded Myspaces users are, oh and how condescending also, fair enough theres plenty of people like interacting online that way, but theres always criticisms so please respect out opinions before name calling and telling us to ‘get a life’ and attacking us because we don’t like the website. We have our reasons and you do to so get over it.
Oh and to the “Ashlee” person, we do have lives, we don’t waste them on social networking websites talking to robots and people with social probleme. Probably just a naive kid who doesn’t know what she’s on about.
I HATE myspace.It’s for people who don’t have any friggn lives.They should ban the website anyways.Its BORING!
Preaching endlessly about how MySpace “sucks” will get you no where. The fact is, it’s here to stay, and your the only people lonely enough to lament on facts no one else cares about whilst blowing thyself.
Besides which, there’s a plus in your logic. You say that MySpace is the trash bin of society. Isn’t that a good thing? That way you have all the lowly peasants rounded up into one place, and you can ride your self-wanking high horse all the way around it.
If you don’t like something, then ignore it. It’s that simple. The internet isn’t set up so you have to go through specific sites.
Oh, and yes, I do realize that last statement is hypocritical, seeing as here I am, doing the exact opposite of what I said you should do. I have no life, and yeah, I’m a know nothing fourteen year old. But are you any different?
I’ve taken a few minutes to respond to the last batch of comments.
“me”: We have to do what we can to encourage intelligent discussion and debate.
Democritus: Running your own site has its advantages but it isn’t for everyone. There are lots of smart people with brilliant things to say that aren’t technically competent to run their own site/server. Providers that offer free blog services (think Blogger, for example) maintain a low barrier for entry. I think that making blogs available to anyone is important, even if the content of some falls off rapidly.
Mike: Not having a MySpace account I can’t attest to the reliability of the site. Based on comments here it seems they could be doing better at keeping it available.
Roxy: The “popularity” that people claim by having a large friend count isn’t all that important. It’s a number and very noncomittal. For bandmembers I could see how the count could be used to approximate how many people are interested in the band. In both cases it is more important how your friends act, not how many you have.
Ashlee: I’m concerned with standards for human interaction, specifically that they are falling off. As communication becomes more and more casual, we are losing the ability to express ourselves in a meaningful way. We write not because we have no lives, but because we are concerned.
Tom: Thanks for stopping by.
Laughable: Web sites come and web sites go. If I don’t like one, I am entitled to form and share my own opinions. I try to make a reasonably case for my views. Thanks for sharing yours.
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). I am still amazed at the response.
The comment policy on this entry has been changed. Please see the updates to the original post, specifically those on new comments.
- Alex
The role of social networking sites in disintegrating and bolstering human interaction can be argued just as convincingly from either side of the aisle. The cheapening of online friends really only goes as far as you allow it to. In my experience, most MySpace users treat the site as a toy or a journal or a bathroom wall and, well, there’s no getting around that.
As a musician and someone with a lot of friends and family scattered throughout the country, I find some of these sites useful–Facebook, in particular, is becoming more practical even as it is outgrowing itself. But MySpace is indeed a gaudy, unattractive, user-unfriendly and frustrating site with which to interface. Another, lesser known site, Virb.com, shows that it is possible to create a social networking site which is fully customizable, easy to use _and_ attractive for the casual viewer. From a musician’s standpoint, it is far more useful than MySpace in that mp3 files are not further compressed before they are posted (which MySpace does), and the interface allows you to upload seemingly as many songs as you wish–even letting you separate them by album and so on–which MySpace most certainly does not.
Plus, the music only starts when you press PLAY–a major plus for anyone who browses in several tabs or windows at once.
The only advantage that MySpace has is that it is so popular already that getting people to make the switch to a superior site is just as difficult as convincing them to show some restraint and taste in designing their page.
Myspace is vastly addictive and I must admit that I was suckered into it a long time ago. The scope of it is becoming so vast and broad that within a few years people won’t feel the need to visit other websites.
Over the past couple of weeks I have seriously considered just deleting my account. And it’s not necessarily because of all the “emo” kids or the countless bands with poor recordings. It’s not even Tom’s smug fucking face that gets plastered everywhere. The reality of it is, Myspace.com is a poorly run website. It’s design is shoddy and amateur (that’s before you come across the tacky profiles) and the server is constantly struggling to keep up with the millions of users online. Hence; slow connections and errors. (You’d think that a site that has been bought out for about $100 billion could afford very powerful and efficient servers).
So taking into account that one can avoid all the emo trends and vomit-inducing profile pages, Myspace just isn’t (to me anyway) worth the agro.
And for those who spend hours and hours a day on Myspace, checking messages, leaving comments, browsing and adding new friends, posting in groups, updating information and adding pictures etc. you should evaluate what you are doing and what you are actually getting out of it. I’m not saying everyone should delete their account (although that would be ideal :)) but, you know, Myspace is not the be all and end all of the Internet…
It’s nice to see that there are so many individuals that share my hatred for myspace.com. I heard over and over that I need to make a profile and how much fun it was. So I finally took that advice about two days ago. I am already so irritated that I deleted my unfinished profile. The people on there are ridiculous. 90 percent of the girls are ho’s. I suppose you would say the same about the guys. It’s one big cyber fest. Also, my brother created a profile for me last year which i never used and now that I want it deleted, myspace refuses to send me the password. They never answer any of my help questions that aren’t already posted in the faq section. There is absolutely no one to answer questions. I could go on and on. To some it up the site makes me sick to my stomach.
To those who oppose our dislike, I think your taking it the wrong way, as someone like me doesn’t generally “hate” it, sure I made some hypocritical statements before, but when you think about it, it’s not about “hating” the website, it’s having a broad view about it and picking it’s faults, which believe me has a lot of faults and in general because of what a monster Myspace has become, is almost unfixable.
However I’d like to say that the concept of social networking is not all bad, but in Myspace’s case abuses the concept, giving users too much control over “customizing” their pages, it’s almost like each profile is itself a website and of course lets mention the bloated, ugly, slow designs, yuk! Oh and lets mention the type of crowd it attracts, most of them are dumb, anti-social, illiterate, very young, immature people who have insecurities and find the time to chat to complete strangers, which I find quite sad, thats why I am more supportive of Facebook, which is generally more “classy” than Myspace in comparison.
But as I stated before, we have as much as you do every right to express our opinions, views and concerns about the website, we also have the right to bitch about Myspace, while we generally acknowledge our dislike, we also have a bit of fun bashing it,
Please also note, I do not “hate” Myspace users or even condemn them, if they like chatting online, fine with them, I just condemn the creator, the evil owners and the webmasters of the site, in creating a beast that needs to be put to sleep.
i have a myspace and i also have a life. i also have real friends.
i will admit the “emo scene trend” ppl r really annoying, they think theyre above everyone when theyre not, and they only dress that way for their camera in their bathroom, u never see them wearing that on the streets they just want u to think they do. i hate ppl who do those trains, they just want more friends and its pathetic. i dont like myspace that much, but i do have one, but just cuz i have one doesnt mean i dont have a life.
Like the last two entries, I don’ t think that a social networking site is bad. My main gripe is what kind of other people it attracts, and what it allows them to show on their pages. I mean, we have a culture of youths who actually think that “I.M.” is a language. You have the vast majority of users on that site posting themselves drinking, smoking, and doing other things that only degenerate the mentality of our youth and future. I don’t think that this should be a communication tool for our youths if we’re going to allow ignorant adults to show them that life is one big party that ends with you getting laid everynight of your life, and if you’re not doing this…then you are a beeeaatchh!!! That is the wrong way to promote interaction amongst the future of our country/world. Plus, I read an article a few weeks back in the paper that left a scary thought in my mind. In the article, it stated that 88% of Russian youths ages 12-19 years old believe that Joseph Stalin was an exceptional leader and a misunderstood idealist. Then the article asked, how many youths in the U.S. in that age range would know who Joseph Stalin is. I find that frightening because one day, those Russian youths will take the lead of Russia. While our hip, emo, “if it ain’t on Myspace, it ain’t important”, Paris Hilton generation takes the reigns of our great nation. That is frightening when you consider the mentality that Myspace is creating.
‘Me’, you said that
“I mean, we have a culture of youths who actually think that “I.M.” is a language”
Well, one day it will be.
You think the French were impressed when English started creeping back into the language in medi eval times? They thought it would be pure French forever.
Hieroglyphics were eventually replaced by letters. Egyptians would never of thought that.
A couple of hundred years ago, one would ‘parambulate’ along the ‘promenade’ whilst the weather is ‘clement’.
Now it’s a walk down the pavement when the weather’s nice.
The point is, language is organic, it’s a living breathing thing that changes everyday.
You’re gay!
As in happy.
One day I.M will become the language because it is shorter, easier, more accessible. We’re getting lazier…so is the language.
And myspace is not creating a mentality at all…
I’m sure no one actually thinks “if it aint on myspace it aint cool”
They may act like it…but no one is that naive.
Myspace is just a place where young people interact…
and it’s well grown out of by mid 20’s.
And no, “emo scene trend” people do not think they’re better than everyone else. That is a slicing prejudice comment that you know is not true Kristen F, and only saying it because you don’t like “emo scene trend” people.
I am “emo scene trend” and of course I like to dress nice for photos…doesn’t everyone?
At the end of the day, Myspace is just a bit of fun, where people, especially the younger generation, can interact and and, yes….get attention.
Everyone does stuff to get attention…nice car, nice clothes, gel in your hair…cool MySpace.
~My opinion is mixed of negative and positive~
I have a MySpace but i’m considering just deleting the whole thing all together. The way i see it, i never wanted one in the first place but i thought it might be a good way of keeping in touch with friends and others who enjoyed artwork and things i had been posting on other websites..so yes i gave in, but i agree with many of the negative things already mentioned.
I totally agree with how the whole system is more about scoring points with online “friends” and real “friends”, -it’s just stupid and for me it has just caused more trouble, hissy fits between people and tons of weirdos - when i didn’t intend for any trouble, but i’m sort of greatful for having met some people who are nice..or so i assume..50% of the time it’s not as if i can actually know what they are like, but thats not the point, from me expecting just to keep in contact with others, it has slowly slipped to blocking people and wishing i just hadn’t started the whole thing..but at the same time happy. - Ugh.
Your page is basically an advertisement for YOU. It’s like putting everything anyone could possibly want to know about you on a plate, and waiting for others to come and take a look, that is what i wasn’t to keen on. I like how you can meet people from all over the world but i don’t like how it’s great stalker/nutter territory.
Besides that, some things are best left to the imagination..the best looking people or most popular seem to have the most friends, some people don’t care what the person is like personality wise - they just want to look at their pictures..and i hate how people add others and don’t say a word..i end up saying “thanks for the request” because it’s usually down to me to make the first move - you wouldn’t do that in real life now would you? you wouldn’t go and tell someone your life story and walk off leaving them with a look of confusion on their face would you?..and what i find would be misleading for younger people is that you CAN’T block people in real life..and not to mention those damn “we are fixing something” messages..Blah. I’m probaly happier without although i understand how fun it can be..and i must kick this MySpace addiction before i go loopy.
~RANT OVER~
Spot on. –space looks as if it was coded by some 10-yr old in his spare time and then left that way. Now it’s been picked up by a troupe of chimpanzees who have rubbed their faeces on it for decoration.
Truth be told, my band has an account to let people know when shows are and do other promo stuff, but that’s the extent of my involvement. None of us in the band “drop by” and blog or share our thoughts. We see –space as a necessary evil. In addition to myspace we also use flyers, email, phone and the usual ways of plugging shows. For social networking, our actual friends get phone calls. Tom was the first “friend” to get kicked off the list. As soon as our real site is finished, all the myspace content will be be replace with our URL in big friendly letters and a picture of an elephant penis with Tom at the business end
I pay 10 bucks a month for my own site, which I update about every six months with new work. I don’t care if anyone visits it but I like to have my work available if people are curious. I’m not a designer and it’s a very spartan-looking site but I can guarantee it’s better than 99% of the myspace pages out there. I don’t self-promote but I like to have an online repository.
When we moved across the country, my best actual friend set up a private forum for all the crew to communicate with each other. It’s free software and a piece of cake to customise and we all use it regularly. Best part is: no spam, no fecking children, no phishers, scammers, no predators, no wankers I don’t know from a bar of soap trying to up their “friend” count.
This “myspace is the only way to keep in touch” thing is a crock: you already have a PC and the net so you automatically have access to email, IM and forums, so wtf do you need some gaudy piece of trash and a bunch of phony friends for?
Sure, to each his own, but don’t be wasting your time polishing a turd or defending a trend that’s outlived its shelf life by about 3 years.
H
Thank God I’m not alone! It’s nice to see that there are others like me who despise MySpace in its entirety. The worst part of this ‘place for friends’ is that nobody seems to know each other properly. My sister adores this shit stain on the underpants of the internet. I seem to be constantly reminding her that when she says ‘oh yeah, he’s this guy i know’ or ‘yeah she’s really nice, don’t be nasty about her’ that she has in fact never met the majority of these people more than once (if that!) and yet she seems to adorn them with the title ‘friend’. I dare say that the definition of the word ‘friend’ has changed dramatically since it’s introduction. Apparently a friend is now someone whom you have added to your list of contacts (which has to be bigger than everyone else’s, obviously) rather than a person that you would trust and know about. I’ve never bought into this garbage because it’s so bloody pointless, providing no contact with people except for quick one line comments that use all sorts of symbols like “+ & :))) 8″ and hundreds more stupidly applied characters that someone somewhere decided makes you cool. Another thing my sister likes to tell me is that she has more friends than me. No matter how many times I tell her that my friends are actually people I know and would trust, she doesn’t actually take this on board. It’s tragic.
Another particularly irritating part of this fad is the pictures. So many people who practically prepare themselves for their poses in numerous black and white photos, enhanced in Photoshop and the like so that one bit of it is a different colour. All the fake people on their who look like complete arse wipes posing for things and begging for comments or people to ‘own’ their photo’s is just pathetic. It’s worse when you see props in the pictures in th images as well, or the user looking at a flower or a butterfly or some graffiti that they clearly wouldn’t give a toss about if they were forced to look at. Just as long as they can have it in their profile picture making them look ‘innocent’ or ‘damaged’ and all the rest of these bloody adjectives. Some of the photo’s even show the user dressed like a whore. “Clearly, this enhances your status of cool. Looking like a prostitute is what makes you a nice person” I think to myself sarcastically. I despair for these people.
Thanks for creating this little article. It’s nice to blow off steam.
Tim.
I wholeheartedly agree MySpace Sux.
I have been unable to log in since March 17, 2007. I have emailed customer support dozens and dozens of times over the past six months and the problem still persists.
A website as popular as MySpace should have the problem fixed within a matter of days at the very most. Six months is absolutely outrageous. I can’t even effectively delete my account.
All they continue to tell me is:
Hello,
That issue is currently being resolved.
Please be patient.
Thank you,
MySpace.com
Well, I’m sorry but six months is well beyond the limit of my patience.
Myspace is bloody awful. Some of those layouts have about 50 pictures of boy bands slapped onto a glittering, aquamarine-and-fuchsia background with some sort of cutesy unicorn, or butterfly, or dolphin.
Eww.
Facebook, at least, has a nice layout, unobtrusive (no?) ads, and widget system (although I don’t have a FB myself. Yet.)
I’m so glad people agree. Myspace is the worst creation on the net. All your point are corrent.
Myspace includes over 100 scripting/css errors!!! And they are a multi-million dollar company? wtf
The only reason why I have (two) myspaces, is because 1) I’m doing an experiment for a class of mine and 2) To promote my band a bit more.
I agree with you totally; the layout is one of the most awful things to have ever stained this good internet (Well, except for goatse and the like
) I only go on to check my myspaces once every two weeks because the layout is horrendous, and it gets on my nerves a lot.
What I don’t get however, is when a young girl is molested by a guy she met… da dum, on myspace, is that he recieves all of the blame. My mind goes back to one case, where she actually sent him nude pictures of herself just because he asked. Of course, i’m not blaming the victim completely (it is a terrible crime, and he CHOSE to molest her), but those pictures most certainly played a part in it.
Those excuses of “Oh, I can’t communicate without a myspace!!!!1111″ are null and void because of a simple invention created quite a while ago: oh wow, the phone! Or you could e-mail, or Instant Message or, gasp! dare I say it?, actually meet up with your friend… in real life?!
Bah. I just don’t get why a lot of people like myspace so much.
Sister Creep.
I deleted my MySpace a few weeks ago and I feel so much better without it. I’d sooner look back on my life when I’m lying on my death bed and say, “Hell yeah, I had a great life, and y’know what? I spent little to no time on myspace like my friends did” or something like that..lol. I also deleted my FaceBook account, not because I hate that too, just because I’m sick of the whole “hey lets advertise ourselves to complete strangers ober the internet” phase thats so popular at the moment. *breathes* It’s like people forget who their ‘real’ friends are, their more interested in being this ‘other person’ for people they hardly know and just met on some chat room from somewhere. It’s boring and makes no sense..delete your myspace..you’ll thank yourself later in life. And your grand-kids will think you were cool for not getting sucked into the crowd and standing up for the fact that MySpace sucks. lol.
MySpace is a corporate owned site and exists solely to collect information for marketing.
How do I know? Let’s just say I’m good friends with one of it’s creators.
I also have ALWAYS felt it’s a very unorganized poorly maintained site.
Does this ring a bell “An unexpected error occurred…”
I’m post #106 unable to log in since 3-17-07. I have gone from emailing them to ask for help to emailing them asking they delete my account and they can’t even do that right.
They continue to respond to my requests with a macro form letter telling me the problem is being resolved and to be patient. MySpace customer support personnel are totally inept. I’m not asking for help logging in anymore. I’m way past that. All I am asking for now is that they delete my account. I provide all the details of my account and they still WON’T DELETE IT!
Good God this is annoying! I need the email address of a higher up person.
Dia, the best thing to do is ignore Myspace totally and change your e-mail address to avoid receiving any of their e-mails, it is fairly obvious that they cannot and will not do anything about deleting your account because they are fucking useless that they cannot delete peoples accounts upon request.
I like the way myspace is powered using Microsoft’s proprietary Asp.net server scripting, and as a web developer I know how slow, untrustworthy and clunky this piece of shit of technology is, thats why people mostly use open source and friendlier languages such as PHP.
Meanwhile I have looked at “VIRB” another social networking site and I am totally impressed at the elegance and beauty, almost every profile has a beautiful unique feel to it and best of all if you don’t want the customization of each profile you can switch the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) overlay off and have the default design with the click of a small button on the page, and best of all, there is no malicious code that can be dangerous to you and your computer! And best of all there is no darn automatic music playing or flashing ad banners in your face!
#106 and #112
Well finally after six months MySpace did something right. I got an email earlier stating:
So I checked my MySpace page and sure enough it had finally been deleted (I could visit the page without logging in I just couldn’t log in). It only took them since March 17th, 2007 to finally do something right. They never did fix the problem of not being able to log in but after four tries they finally managed to delete my account. Needless to say I will NEVER be back. Their customer service is among the worst I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with.
Checked back to the page to see what others have said about the hell hole that is Myspace. Thought I might advise you to take a look at “myconfinedspace” (google it, I can’t remember if its .co.uk or .com, sorry). It’s a funny site really, and not some kind of social scene like myspace pretends to be.
Also, I have to agree with others on here (I mean, there must be others with the same point of view about the friends thing). I’ve a good friend who’s really quite a social girl, and really is quite popular. But then I saw her myspace and thought “now come on, thats just not true” when i saw how many “friends” she has. There is no way she has met all 715 friends or however many it is. She probably doesn’t even know them all, or see them all. I know that she’s popular, but it seems like that’s pushing the boat out a bit too far. You’re supposed to meet about 2000 people in a life time, and there is no way that at 16 she’s met not far off half of them. I just hate the way people collect friends, and “friends” is a loose term in all honesty. These are acquaintances really. Not people you would trust your secrets with. And myspace seems to be a bitch fest anyway, where people always fall out if they don’t get picture comments etc. As a young person I’m expected to buy into myspace, but its just a garish piece of garbage thats way past its shelf life.
Long live real friends and meeting people! Down with myspace, a gimmick that too many people use to try an look popular and cool. It’s just so backwards it’s unreal.
Another reason it stinks is they don’t give a damn how long you have to study the site to figure what it is about or how it works.
You would think there was a video user guide, or some kind of guide that shows how to get started.
^Exactly. People do “collect” friends just for popularity, especially the bands. I quite often hear people say, “Yeah we don’t bother checking whos adding us, we just get as many friends as we can because it makes us look better” - y’know? c’mon now really. It’s not like 30% of the people on their friends list actually have any interest in the music they make, or who they are as people, it’s really sad.
Personally, i can only call someone my true friend if they can atleast tell me what my full name is, or some fact that would require them actually knowing me face to face for a longer space of time than just a split second mouse-click.
Why MySpace Sucks:
1. Waste of time: Time could be spent with your friends rather than on the computer. Volunteer, train a dog, start a business, go to school, visit your parents, play russian roulette, all are more productive than MySpace.
2. Anonymity: Your business becomes everyone’s business. Trust me, even if you don’t think it will, MySpace can do it.
3. Personal Security: Both e-security and physical security. Aside from hacking, viruses, spyware, and phising scams stalkers are very real. An intelligent person can find out anything they need to know from your page, even if you don’t reveal it directly; a little information goes a long way these days.
4. Dramatics: Like it or not, MySpace drama will find you too. Just give it time.
5. MySpace will be the downfall of mankind: Sure not directly (I hope), but the mentality of our ADHD society will. Governments love it! Everyone is too preoccupied with their MySpace page, or Nicole Kidman’s new hairstyle, or March Madness, or other amusing diversion to focus fully on the plights of the real world. Laws are passed, wars are waged, rights are stripped under the collective noses of society. Eventually, unless some miraculous intervention occurs, SOMEONE WILL PUSH THE BUTTON and we will barely bat an eye. Man has the ability to extinguish Homo Sapien Sapien through weapons alone and MySpace will help ensure this happens sooner rather than later.
I completely agree with your piece, MySpace sucks. There is one very important thing you left out. The terms and conditions section states: “You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member’s Account Settings page.” I have done exactly what they said five times, and they still haven’t deleted my account. They told me to write “Remove Profile” in the about me section and delete all my account info. I did what they said, but they still haven’t deleted it. Their membership numbers are so high because they don’t delete people’s accounts when it is requested. A search of “Remove Profile” as the user name yields over 200 people who want their account removed. Some of the last login dates are back in 2006, suggesting they are not keeping true to their promise of deleting your account after you put remove profile on your page. A search on the content of Myspace reveals 336,000 profiles with content that states Remove Profile. MySpace expects us to uphold our end of the terms and conditions, but they refuse to do so themselves. MySpace truly sucks, and I’m never going back. If you encounter this problem, I suggest you do what I did, and complain to the Better Business Bureau.
Wow, I’m not the only one who loathes myspace. Never expected this much people to hate it as much as I do.
Myspace sucks simply because people get too excited over it! At the college I go to it’s f***ing annoying to see every other person go to their myspace about every 5 minutes just to post a comment/post pics. And people who put up new pics of themselves beg their “friends” to comment on them. It’s annoying to see that 99% of the internet population has one, and goes on them frequently!
I think that MySpace is not a place for friends (as their logo suggests). Because it’s full of spammers, pedophiles, malware, drama, and the like. I’ve read some of the comments here and it’s really sad to see that myspace doesn’t live up to its name. Like people ending relationships/friendships because of myspace. One of my highschool friends criticizes me because I don’t go on myspace very often (yes I have one but I very rarely go on it). He says it’s a great way to get in touch, but hell, instant messaging, the phone, and email are better ways to get in touch.
And I totally agree with the HTML aspect of it; the way how myspace is layouted… is rather ridiculous. Most profiles I see are cluttered, messy, and so huge that it lags my browser.
I made some anti-myspace propaganda in my Photoshop class this semester. It’s rather ironic how people reacted to it, most people reacted well to it, but they are still myspace fanatics. Also, I’m designing an anti-myspace T-shirt for that same class, which will say on the front, “i haet myspace” and on the back, “proud 2 b anti myspace”. We have to wear it on the day of finals. I SO want to elicit reactions from those myspace fanatics.
Too many people hate myspace for wrong reasons. You all take myspace way too seriously. First off, myspace will never charge because firstly, they would lose AT LEAST half of their people. Charging would be a BAD MOVE on myspace’s part, therefore they have seen this error and have not made such a bad decision. Instead, the get paid by the ads they put on their site (which I have no problem with because frankly, I don’t care). You people need to stop taking myspace so fucking seriously, because it’s nothing more than another stupid online community. THAT’S IT.
You do have some points, yes, I won’t deny that. Nevertheless, this was not covered: Myspace is available for the people that want to use it and don’t mind/care on what comes with it. Sure, you are gonna run into some bad HTML usage for example (by all means, I took Web Design with Cisco and I know the official guidelines and such) but what do you expect? If everone can edit their profile how they want then it’s going to happen. No escaping it. Also another point I would like to comment on that I see here is yes, some people do take it too seriously. Me? I am on it simply for family and my friends at the high school I went too (a good way to keep in touch with them, and no, it’s not the only way I keep in touch either). This also relates to the fact that not everyone on Myspace has “fake friends” and that not everyone takes it too seriously. And if you don’t like the structure, then don’t go to it, same with the advertising. Lastly, from what I see these days, the Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com section is not bad at all. Check it out yourself. This is what it boils down to: If you like it, use it, if you don’t, then don’t use it.
Myspace has good points and bad. It can be used as a networking tool.
Staying in touch with friends or promoting your music/art/business is good and I understand it’s value in that regard.
But most people just seem to use myspace as an ego-booster.
I actually had people emailing me demanding to be placed in my “top 8″
Call me selfish, but I could not come to terms with the idea of placing my friends in an order of importance.
And let’s not forget the seizure-inducing layouts festooned with a cacophony of sounds and colors that almost seem like someone on LSD designed the page. Why are there three songs and two videos playing at the same time?
But my biggest problem with myspace was the people using the site to bash others or promote their drama.
Decorum, taste, tact and discretion seem to be dying sensibilities.
Why would anyone put their personal issues in public for anyone in the world to see? I have seen this a number of times on myspace.
Differences are to be settled face to face. Not from the safety of behind a computer screen. No one needs to know that you and your BF or GF are having a row. I had that done to me on myspace a while back and it was frustrating that the other person choose to write negative public blogs about our differences rather than respond to me privately.
That left a bad taste and did nothing but hasten my eventual decision to delete my account.
I don’t hate myspace, just the way some people use it.
Just check out comment #41. “All the god damned complaining!”
Um, yeah! There’s lots to complain about! MySpace is gaudy, trashy and absolutely shit. Barely anyone on there knows each other, they may have met once at a drunken rave or whatever, but that doesn’t make them friends at all. The “friends” section is the biggest piece of pretentious bullshit around. And I don’t think I’m entirely wrong saying it either! “Ooh look at me, I’ve got 700 friends and I’m better than you”. Yeah, friends I’m sure =/
Also, I couldn’t care less about your new profile pictures! I dont want to ‘own’ LJ Sov. (TM) (Insert any name of your choice there, but don’t forget to put a pointless TM sign on it, or stick a load of exclamation marks, + signs, and square jawed smileys after it) in any of her pictures.
You all know how crap MySpace is, particularly if you came on this page. It must’ve been one of those rare nights in, when you weren’t doing something with your real friends, a bit like for me tonight. The other’s were sat infront of the PC updating their MySpace pages no doubt. MySpace users just nedd to wake up and realise how many hours of their lives they’re wasting with an ugly and crappy website that slowly procures all your personal details for marketing.
No doubt someone else who uses MySpace will have a go at me for saying this. But just for them, DO YOU REALISE THE POINTLESSNESS OF MYSPACE?
Thanks fellow MySpace haters, I love reading the comments on this page.
Tim
i wonder if the people who run Myspace even bother to
(a) google the words, “MySpace+sucks”…
(b) find & read sites like this…
(c) make any attempt to address the issues posted here…
apparently not
“MySpace lacks structure” - yea, that’s putting it very mildly.
“MySpace is gaudy” - like a house painted pepto-bismol pink.
Wow. I am so relieved I am not the only one who hates and finds Myspace a waste of time. Since it first got VERY popular, I have declared myself anti-myspace. I totally enjoyed your points and agreed with all of them. It lacks structure, it is gaudy, AND a waste of time. If I want to talk to my friends or vise-versa, I use a phone and e-mail. Why is Myspace so useful?
PLUS, why do I want random people from distant countries knowing anything about me? Want to meet new people? Go to a party or even talk to people on the street. That way, you at least MEET them and aren’t surprised to see they could be some 45 year old man, like could happen when “meeting” people on Myspace.
Anyways, everyone I know asks, “Got a Myspace?”, and “No? Why not?” I usually respond with, “Why do you?” It is at that time where I hear the same things. “To talk to people….”, “Keep in touch with kids I know…”, (ever hear of a phone? E-mail? Regular Mail?!?) and my favorite, “Just cuz….” Wow, very convincing. To conclude….
Myspace Sucks
Theres nothing wrong with being anti-Myspace, I just hate the whole concept of it, I am too fucking busy to be wasting my time on these websites! Myspace from my perspective is a heaven for those pathetic “emo” kids venting their childhood angst to the world, I could hack those pages and tell them to shut up!
My usual responses when some twit asks me if I have MySpazz, I usually tell them “don’t have one, I hate it” or “don’t want/need one” or “I don’t waste my time on it” or some other similar combination, it seems everybody these days seems to ridicule you of you do not join the MySpazz fad. I could do better without it thankyou very much.
I hate the lame ass excuses when someone tries to bring up about “communicating” with other people, thats an easy answer why its easier on MySpazz, is because everybody has jumped the bandwagon! I can use Email, Telephone, Text messaging etc to communicate with anybody I wish, I don’t need MySpazz, and I DON’T need MORE FRIENDS.
The points raised above are very valid, I just hate other aspects of MySpazz, in which are too many to write here, but you get the gist of it.
End of rant!
Lololololololol…lol.
You’re such a phrasemonger Dave.
Furthermore, emo is a genre of music - depressed people have angst.
This is a great subject I really enjoyed reading everyone’s take on myspace and how it’s affected our world. Unfortunately lots of people have overlooked the idea that myspace stands for. Now I know this is going to sound like your 80 year old grandmother talking to you but I promise you that I am not. I am a 22 year old who just looked through the cracks. But myspace is a monster. A hungry one that despite it’s appeal is making the social structure worldwide in multiple age brackets break-down. The morbid sense of human emotion and social backstabbing is absolutely relentless. Children maybe even your own or being subjected to an alternate media that may very well lead to physical and emotional harm and possibly… death. But it’s the same as anything in a way. Too much of something can kill you. Driving a car, eating to much, etc. Everything has a risk. But this is a medium that is growing all to fast among the world. Most people aren’t even engaged with the fact that it’s a real threat. Most people see it as connecting with friends. But myspace has already been investigated, and retried for hundreds of problems with petrifies, rapist, and even murders looking for a way to get at people. Myspace is the same as every self promoting site out there. Have we really no self esteem. Are you low on friends and looking for answers. Or do you have so many you have to keep tabs on everyone. If your friends truly cared they would call you on the other abomination called the Iphone. Do we need to post pictures of parties we went to? Things that we have seen? Do we need to post all of this on our own personal websites for self-gratification? Is this the best we can do as humans. How about using the internet for something else? How about reading for a change. Studying a little harder. All young people need to listen to this. I have a message for you. How about you get the next leg up on someone who’s popular now in school? And maybe just maybe all the extra time you spent studying and not spending worrying about popularity u get a great career. And then see that girl or guy that was so popular in high school and he or she has nothing to show for it 10 years later. Now who has the last laugh. This is a message that should voice to some of you the way that I feel and the pressure that myspace puts on people. People need to wake up. History has no books for the weak. Because if you have nothing to build you have nothing to live for. Myspace is nothing….always has been always will be.
So many people claim on their profiles they are there to “meet new friends, “any questions, just ask.” Well, then when you send them a message, they either never respond or send you some rude ass response back. It’s like a popularity hoax gone bad. You could almost never befriend anyone off the site in person, all these people put profile pics of themselves barely dressed, then wonder why they get all these emails?? I guess they feel good about themselves every time they look at their profile view count. They sure aren’t on myspace to “MEET” anyone. What a farce.
It’s good to see other people who feel the same way I do about this Myspace crap. I feel MySpace is pretentious B.S. and is a direct reflection of our weak youth, society, and the direction it’s headed. Whatever happened to writing a letter. LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am glad to see that other people realize how terrible MySpace can be. I know that almost a quarter of the people that I know have a MySpace account. It is terrible. They post images of themselves, and they reveal so much personal information, I’m amazed that they aren’t just taken away by some perverted guy. MySpace is open for anyone, and that’s the real problem. Everything on MySpace is a jumbled mess of people who have no lives. And it is completely useless. Don’t parents monitor childrens’ accounts at all? Because I’m pretty sure that no parent would allow their fourteen-year-old kids to reveal their personal information and post pictures of themselves online. Any parent who does allow their kid on MySpace should be arrested… Or, at least, fined several hundred dollars. It puts kids in danger, and it makes them even more sucked up in bad pop culture, ex. Rap Music, which is terrible. People who use MySpace for good reasons, it’s OK. People who go to MySpace to meet new people and post pictures of themselves and cram their profile with irrelevant stuff… Thumbs down.
In my personal opinion, Myspace (and most other social networking sites), while they have generally positive motives, are misused and have become a barren wasteland of “gangstas”, “emos”, sluts and perverts who have nothing better to do than to sit on myspace, complain and moan about their horribly mistreated lives and ask everyone “not to judge them” in a very cliched and frankly laughable manner. It’s about putting your life on show, and to see how many people find it impressive enough to actually bother commenting on. People want attention, and myspace gives them (the people who should have it the LEAST) exactly that.
Instant messaging is all you really need, a real-life, one-to-one conversation with the person you’re talking to. Having too many friends that you never talk to on an Instant Messenger is annoying and feels cluttered, and if you’re constantly talking to someone, it’s harder to be tricked by an anonymous internet pervert.
The bands are the only thing myspace is useful for. If you’ve heard a band and want to know what they sound like before purchasing an album, Myspace is useful. The whole “social networking” side of it is a complete and utter waste of time, and it’s, in my personal opinion (apart from 4chan.org) the very bottom of the internet.
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