MySpace is like a heroin addiction without the upside
MySpace is like a heroin addiction without the upside. If you visit Gorilla Mask’s meaning for each type of MySpace photo you’ll see the first part of the problem. No one knows how to take a picture anymore. Essentially there are four types of pictures found on My Space. The trendy “I can take pictures off myself in the mirror” photo, the “I’m way too ugly or trying to be too hip to use my real photo” image, the “I’m hideously deformed and want to use a picture of me from far away” photo, and the “look at my dog / booze / make up / left over crack” shot.…
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— go to most recent comments26 - Andrew
I love this article it is so true!
27 - ashley
dude. i totally agree with you. i laughed so hard. we should talk sometime. EMAIL me dont add me on myspace and well talk through email
28 - george
myspace lacks democracy... they delete user accounts & info, forum threads without notice. people's account could be deleted for speaking truth.
take look my friend's thread:
link
29 - naomi
i like myspace, i have myspace
no one i know from real life has myspace.
myspace has put aided me in finding a great deal of awesome music,
no one really likes or posts on my myspace account though
:(
<3 Nem
30 - steve
I love myspace!! Ive had it for almost a year now. I have finally put my digicam to good use! I have met a lot of awesome. Im on almost every day! Nem, ill post on your myspace =)
31 - The Goat
the worst part about myspace is that people think they are outgoing and more down to earth than everyone because they meet people on the internet. How could you think you are more outgoing than another person because you meeet people online, thats like saying you are good at pool because you play virtual billiards
32 - katt
awesome article, very funny.
i myself have a myspace account because i like keeping up with my friends but i think people who take this site seriously are quite sad indeed. For instance people who meet a guy/girl on myspace and ask them out [on myspace] then claim they have a girlfriend/boyfriend, what the hell is that? can't you just meet someone you can actually have face to face conversations with? what is so wrong with you that you have to resort to the internet for relationships? and another thing what is all this emo photo crap? you take a picture with your head down and all of a sudden your emo and people actually bother doing this garbage? why take a photo of your head if your not showing your face?? just shut up and go find some other pathetic followers to slit your wrists with.
anyways good article i hope some myspace freaks read it and feel like idiots. i can see some already do^^
33 - Nnb
Livejournal > Myspace.
34 - boy watch
Horny losers + Internet Connection + semi-attractive girls = trouble
incorrect...
revision:
bored middle-aged critics + nearly nude teenagers + excess time = poorly written essay, not influencing a single soul, yet targeting an entire audience not paying attention. congratulations, you have yet again wasted seven and a half minutes of my life, where i could have kept my hands busy doing something else. like masturbating... get it? ooh, clever pun, right? i must say i agree fully with everything you said, but it is a waste of time to put it here, or anywhere else for that matter. myspacers DO NOT READ, not by choice, but because they are genetically unable to do so. i love you sir, please direct your causes toward something worthwhile.
35 - myspace lover
i love myspace i love myspace i love myspace
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i love myspace i love myspace i love myspace
i love myspace myspace rocks!
and if you dont like it then your ghey.
36 - Robert Terry
My space, sadly it is what my generations 'alternitive kids are going to be viewed by, and sadly its so far from the truth, these kids arnt alternitive, there just coporate whores who copy every other my space kid. Just pathertic
37 - laura
my bandmate told tom off for spamming us about his record label, and then proceeded to tell him that his compilatiob sucked. tom deleted our band's profile.
38 - anonymous
MY SPACE SUCKS BIG TIME .....YOU spent worthless time creating your space and they end up deleting it anyways if not myspace then a hacker will end up deleting you...Most people add you as a number and won't even talk to you just freaken keep sending bulletins and beg you to add their friends
39 - ryan
Nice post
try this:
Top Ten Worst MySpace Personalities
40 - boba
myspace is good and bad. it all depends on how you use it and who you want to be networked with and how private you want your settings to be. myspace can be use to find unheard music, to be creative with colors, images, songs on your profile, to express ideas, experiences, feelings, see if your poems are any good, to find events and things to do, to ask people how they like their college and question them about info you can't get from the college site, so many usefull things. a lot of things that people complain about are things under their control. you can practically anything that's unwanted (comments, messages, friends). you don't have to be fake and you don't have to be friends with fake people. you can even block the bands if you want. if the pictures disturb you don't go out of your way to look at them. a lot of people are just trying to be evocative, artsy, photographer photos. i don't see anything wrong with that only if the bad intentions and the fakedom and followerness shows through the picture. but yeah. myspace is only as good or bad as you allow it to be.
41 - Milly
Myspace is an embarrassment. I'm ashamed to have an account. I only use it to talked to my "IRL" friends and to keep me updated on local shows.
It's disgusting, everyone on there is all "I'm more scene than you" or "Look @ this sw8 pic of my left eye."
It's sad kids whoring themselves out.
Admit it.
42 - tory
finally -
somebody who's not a fuckin retard.
43 - haley dooley
gay
44 - Lawrence Lim
All I see is a lot of hypocrisy and petty generalizations in this your opinion.
Sorry, but you get out of it what you put into it. Realistically, it's great for networking online and and in many instances offline as well. If you use it expecting it to fulfill some preconceived stereotype you've already developed, then that's what it will be.
I use MySpace, but I actually do meet many of the people I've met on there.
Perhaps you've had different experiences, but all I've drawn from your stated opinions is that:
a) You have a lot of time on your hands
b) You have no use for MySpace
c) Yeah.
Take this criticism with the best of my intentions.
45 - luisa
i somehow got to this page. i took the time to read it... and i thought it was pretty amusing.
fact: myspace has over a million users.
fact: there are over a millions idiots on this earth.
46 - Nic
I completely agree, I deleted my account as a healthy step to being well rounded x
47 - Chal
frickin lush post, totally agree, i used to have an account but it is no more and it is deffinatly for the better
48 - Jade
well some of the stuff you said is true but myspace rocks, its just a bit of fun no need to go on a mega rant bout it. You have your own view on iot which is fair enough and your article was amusing but liek i said ita bit of fun and your always going to get people which take it too far but then there are sonme of us who use it responsibly and enjoy it, i also have to agree i find it addictive!!
49 - Jen
This made me laugh- it's great writing, and so true. I got a myspace because I was graduating soon, wanted to keep in touch with people. Little did I know....now I'm addicted. Completely. I found this by googling "myspace addictions". I have become the typical myspace addict, minus the whoring myself through bad pictures and "add me/comment me" spam. And I have actually met, in real life a good 95% of the people on my friends list. But still.....logging into the stupid site 2-4 times daily can't be healthy.
50 - jus_me
i love mypsace! i've met a lot of great people on there. every single person i have on my list i know personally with the exception of a few bands i've added. i can understand how pointless it may seem to you if you come across people that live in some state and have friends from every other state out there ya know. thas jus dumb, those are people they will prolly never meet. i use myspace soley as a way to keep up with my friends. we're seniors in high school n have busy schedules between work, school, family things, and boyfriends/girlfriends. myspace is a great way to keep people informed of what's goin on.
51 - uninportant
The one intelligent thing that the administration of my school has done was to block MySpace. People really need to get lives.
52 - Rudy
haha great rant all of it pretty much true - myspace is more of a routine then something...pleasurable
53 - anti-myspace
Thank you for this article.
I HATE MYSPACE.
End of story.
54 - Agree
Thank you so much for understanding what I've been going through, because everyone I know has a stupid myspace. And they base their entire lives off of how many "friends" they have. Or my favorite, "hey check your myspace I sent you a message!" when that person is right there. And to all those who say that this post is "gay," I highly doubt that this post does in fact have sex with the same gender of post, if they have genders at all.
55 - Ellis Yu
Me and my friends are trying to make the blogging community aware of a stealth censorship campaign that is being conducted by MySpace. They are not admitting to it, and are trying to do this in secret.
For the last few days they have been trying to eradicate all mentions of the site YouTube from our profiles on MySpace. Tons of MySpace profiles have embedded YouTube videos because it is a great service, but now MySpace is feeling threatened by this site and is modifying member profiles to remove any mentions of it. If you mention YouTube in your MySpace profile it gets replaced with ".." We also can't discuss this on the boards because MySpace is censoring YouTube there as well!
There was an outcry by some members after MySpace's acquisition by News Corp. People were afraid they might start monitoring or censoring MySpace. At the time their CEO said that nothing like that would happen. Well, now it has. MySpace was built on an open community and now they are trying to censor us, putting business interests above its members! We are going to fight back.
See these links:
MySpace group protesting YouTube blocking (we have to spell it "Y-O-U-T-U-B-E")
Myspace in the Brave New World (comments discuss how to get around block)
56 - kiddicus maximus
dude. check out my MySpace page. then check out my band.
57 - jared
i fucking hate myspace, first fucking off it fukd me around for like 10 minutes, twice... then finally the cunt works, and its still anal. i dont get it? why its so gooood?? like fuck i can check out chixk profiles on msn and shit, maybe if your some fukn teeny bopper with no life thats white with black hair and has pimples instead of a nose, then yeaa maybe it would be good for you. but apart from that i give it 0 out of 10
58 - Breanna
if you think about it; the only people posting trashy half naked pictures are under 15, the only people posing in your pathetically described poses are digustingly ugly; and the only people on myspace worth giving a damn about-are your friends.
it's the only way to communicate with people who've moved or whom you lost touch with.
59 - Davis
I almost deleted mine but then i read Breanna's and realize I have several family members from other states that I keep in touch with, and there are still many intelligent people on myspace for instance, Breanna. Most are completely retarded and are like robots the way they all look the same, dont give them attention and they might stop cutting they're wrists, or succeed
60 - Bob A. Booey
Breanna's a hot name :) Congratulations on that and thank your parents if you're hot to go along with your hot name.
What's your MySpace? Put some pathetic, trashy, half-naked pictures up there for me to ogle. Thanks, baby.
That is all.
61 - dragon
MYSPACE is like human fuckin' trading cards!
And tonnes of wanna' be SG chix
62 - Pog
If i was a fucken haker i'd kill my space its a fucken gay shit obsersion..... as everyone pretty much said.
63 - izzi
i agree with what you are saying. but in having a myspace you are being a hypocrite even if its only for accpeting requests....VERY BAD
64 - the ULTIMATE MY SPACE HATER!!
MY SPACE SUCKS CRAP.<- TRUTH.
GET A LIFE MY SPACE FREAKS. I HATE YOU ALL. YOU BASTARDS TOOK MY GIRLFRIEND! HOW COULD YOU!? I WILL FOREVER HATE WHOEVER CREATED THIS RIDICULOUS TREND. WE MUST END THIS STUPIDITY! ohh look at my friends! yay! WHO GIVES A CRAP?
65 - Courtney
...You know, I've been Googling "I hate Myspace" today, just to see what I come up with. It's funny, but half the things I look at, people are like "I hate Myspace!" and then have one anyway. Which was me. When I actually had a Myspace. I deleted mine sometime in December (after all, the best way to fix a problem is to kill the source, right?), and I've actually been HAPPIER without it. No kidding.
MYSPACE IS THE EPITOME OF LAME.
THE EFFING END.
It's addicting, and now if it's getting to the point where some people feel you can't have a SOCIAL LIFE without a Myspace? I have no words for them. Only sounds of me vomming in a corner.
Oooh, look at how many friends I have. Oooh, I'm on ten MILLION people's top 8's. Oooh, I have new PICTURE COMMENTS and I'm so hot and ooooooh.
...Those people need to get a life. Seriously.
Myspace has become like a plague. It's the new Black Death. Oy.
66 - Jet
This article hit My Space on the nail. I mean what is My Space good for and what do people use it for? I'm sure the sole purpose of My Space is to stalk people on it. What's even more bizzare is that I found a t-shirt which says "Stalk me on My Space"
67 - skullcandy
I have met one of the largest myspace whores...it's a female starting with an "F" (ending with an "n") and she is quite rude and stuck up, actually mean to people. I think it would be funny to delete her profile since it is her life and now her fake career...how do you hack into an account ? :)
68 - Nando Roy
Spot on. Everything you say rings true, i had a Myspace profile and just added close REAL friends on it, then i realised why the fuck do i need myspace to contact my real friends? isnt it just better to call them or MSN?
thats all i have to say on the matter
69 - Kiiim
I HATE MYSPACE!! Sadly, I use my cousin's account to stalk my boyfriend, just to see what these little myspace loser girls post on his profile so we have something to fight about. I'm anti-social and could give a shit less about what people think of me and i don't care if i lose track of people i knew in high school, which is why i don't have a profile. The Internet can be a great tool but Myspace is putting too many kids in danger of being stalked by perverted old men. I've seen one profile of a 15 year-old girl posing in her underwear clutching her breasts. I don't want to know how many other profiles are like this. Quite disturbing.
70 - Asharak
Well said
I have to say though, Isn't my space for kids in Middle School? Seriously! I remember when I was thirteen and couldn't wait to get home and log on and chat with my friends on every instant messenger ever created! No, I don't have a problem with instant messengers, but isn't that the age where you do that kind of stuff? I mean you have nothing else to do with your life cause you can't drive or go anywhere. I seriously think that it's immature and I stopped doing that stuff when I was in HIGH SCHOOL. Yeah that's right because I could actually drive and SEE my friends instead of wasting my time on the computer and looking at my space. Can we say IMMATURE?? I do think though, that the internet is a good tool for research, I use it for lots of things but not to embarrass myself. And here's a tip for everyone who waste's their time on crap such as my space:
GET A LIFE!
It's easy: go out with your friends, maybe out to dinner, go see a movie, read a good book, go walk your dog and even better get your fat ass some exercise!!
71 - carly
I FUCKING HATE MYSPACE.... DAMN YOU STUPID PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!I REALLY HOPE THIS SHIT ENDS AND LIFE WILL MEAN SOMETHING AGAIN SOMEDAY BEFORE I DIE!!!!
72 - Carmela
I am so glad I'm not the only one who thinks myspace is gay. It's like high school all over again. People are so pathetic, it's quite shocking and sad. It's all about wanting others to think your cool, posting hot pics of yourself, and having a ridiculous amount of "friends".
I could easily do the same, but I won't. Everyone seems to have the same mentality these days.I feel like everyone is going to rely on the internet to meet people. One of the excuses I hear of decent people who have a profile on there is that they use it to communicate with friends. Whatever happened to email?..........Everyone I know is on myspace.....I'll be glad to remain the small percentage who isn't...
73 - Jhazon
I created a myspace account for some of the group discussion but found the most users are lazy bastard and the servers/admin are just as lazy (talk about connection problems and poor design!) I get more of an intelligent conversation talking to my dog.
74 - Ty
I use myspace solely to reconnect with people I went to high school with. There are about 60 something people from my class of 251. I also reconnect with people I went to college with... I don't see the harm in that.
75 - Doesent matter what my name is
I have one only for the purpose of keeping in touch with my family and friends... But! i cant help but notice how annoying and retarded people are and how they abuse it.. Taking pictures of your abs or posing as if your a playboy model is just more than enough evidence of showing how full of yourself you really are. Low lives with nothing better to do than comment on pictures of little girls and girls who are low enough to post slutty pictures. Well all of you mother fuckers can die tomorrow and rot in hell for all i care!