I always defended the core principle of myspace, that is when you strip away all the pollution it has gone through from being used by every idiot everywhere, there is an honest good idea behind it. That being the idea of connecting with people you know easily and instantly. Now, to completely disprove this is the fact that in this day in age, there are hundreds of communication mediums we can choose to use. Simple telephone calls, instant messaging, e-mail, the other million types of messaging services. We really just count on so many types of instant communication all the time. And sure, it is kinda nice to be able to put pictures of yourself up so that others can see, along with some neat information about yourself, blah blah blah.
But,
Somewhere along the way this message was severely damaged. There's nothing quite like that feeling (and you alllllll know the feeling,) of checking out someone's myspace page only to find it fucking DESTROYED with dozens of YouTube videos (half of which don't play properly while embedded in the page,) and those fucking annoying little icons that people seem to post in colonies of several hundred. Then add in how this person doesn't know how to deny friends requests from any random asshole in myspace, so then their comment section turns into a free-for-all marketplace for shitty band ads, girls that only have a myspace to link "my nude picks lol," and so many of those fucking little glittery phrases about how bitches are hoes, bitches ain't shit and what have you.
So, I guess you could say I can't stand that shit anymore. The reason I had defended it for a while is because I was personally able to get back in touch with friends I hadn't seen in so many years. Now, when you move from Pittsburgh PA when you are 10 years old, and all you ever used were phones for primary communication, it's kind of impossible to find someone the conventional way. I found my friend Dave from Pittsburgh, who I hadn't seen in 10 years (at that point,) and started talking to him again and got to see pictures of him, and it was crazy. This also happened for me for a few other people, but none nearly as significant as that. But now that I have used it for so long, and have gotten these good things out of it, I guess I'm just done.
There is one other thing that still bothers me about it. The stupidity of everyone involved. You see, I don't know how many people NEVER read news AT ALL, but I am going to make a reasonable guess and say, 60 percent of people my age don't really have any idea of the world outside of their own. (This, I believe, is a full explanation of how my roommate - just a few months ago - had no idea who Tony Blair was.) The relevance to myspace is that over a year ago, myspace was sold to (I believe it was,) Fox for several million dollars. And the creator, our first friend Tom, as well as other collaborators collected the payment. This was a hugely prolific news topic at the time, people feared that it would no longer cater to teenagers in the "grassroots" way that the original creators had intended. Ha. I even read it Time magazine's 100 people of the year. Tom from myspace was in there, and it detailed the purchase. So then, can we explain this screen capture taken from myspace this morning?
Yeah. Kids, it's hard to break it to you, but Tom isn't in control of myspace anymore. (An honest admission: I guess signing Tom's name for a technical problem will always be better than Rupert Murdoch.) Not a huge deal, I just thought it was ridiculous. Plus I am making my stance on myspace. Another feature that should be forbidden: allowing people to make "video replies" on YouTube. Any assface with a camera in on YouTube. (BUT JEFF TAHTS TEH POIBNT OF UTUBE LOL.) Well that's of no consequence to me. Stick with PornoTube kids, seriously.
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