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 comments76 - Samantha
myspace = narcissism run amuck.
77 - sleepy
thank god for this writer.
myspace sucks fucking ass.
where is the human interaction.
i'm so sick of all the bands that are "almost signed" or the next big thing.
it is a good ol'boy network for bands, very fake and very rub my back i'll rub yours.
also, it is generic, i miss bands orginal webpages, it's like fucking starbucks, watering down art.
please let this trend end!
78 - The Worst
Yes, MySpace indeed sucks; it's like a train wreck, though, I admit.
If you want to see the ultimate in MySpace suckage, check out this blog:
http://worstofmyspace.com/
79 - dontgiveafuck
ok I have to say PURE genius. I've been talking all this crap and stuff about myspace (even thought I have one myself) but i have never been able to put it into my own words. Again GENIUS!
I pretty much agree with all that u just said. Most of the stuff on there though dosnt bother me except the chain letters OH MY JESUS CHRIST! Give it a rest people. Do you really think I actually think I believe that if i dont send this to my top 14 people I love that im going to rot in hell...I dont think so. I personaly want to message that single person back saying " Now, honistly, do you think I give a fuck?!" Thanks for this again it gave me about 5 min. of freedom from myspace...
By the way you forgot to add to the pictures:
1. Every white person has to have there "Gangsta" picture
2. Every kid has to have there eMo/Scene picture
3. Everyone has to have there what me call the "half face picture"
~Kim~
80 - Samaire
On principle I don't even own a MySpace account, and this is from just seeing what the people that DO in fact own one are like. It's either disturbingly slutty pre-teen girls, gender confused emo kids, pervy older men looking for the latter and bands who don't know you can put music on websites OTHER than MySpace.
That's why although I am impressed there are humans on there who didn't decide that sanity and common sense where optional, its still not going to get me to join MySpace. Either get a Livejournal, a poor man's blog or a Blog, the intelligent man's MySpace.
81 - DJ Alibi
Helped me find some really great old friends, Helped
me Network with other DJ's & Producers after moving to another state, Actually has helped me get a few gigs, but as far as promoting, NO, there is too much
competition and so many people on myspace whoring/spamming/faking, that your bulliten about your radio show is long gone by the time your friends read it, I try to keep it real and only add
people that I have met in real life, but a couple have squeezed passed, this on dude was added cause he is a friend of a friend , but now i got a ton of bullitens posted by him to add some 15 year olds n shit, whats up with that? and yes Im addicted, only because I moved to a new State and it helps me keep up with my friends where I used to Live, and when the F%^& is this dude gonna fix the IM's, that was the only real feature, , maybe yahoo and MSN got pissed at them for using it so they asked him to kill it? lol who knows, anyway, just some of my views, its good, its bad, its ugly, hahahaa
82 - zoomlens
myspace=poseur central. A place to find people who you will never meet in person. MySpace is so 1st generation in terms of html/website building. It's blocky, uncoordinated, and the bandwidth is small. Wanna get creative? Go to flickr if you want to post photos, there's real art there. I remember the big push about ten years ago in chat rooms all across the web where everyone had their homepage. That died down, and now, it's got a renaissance. Only one problem--it's one huuuuuuuuuuuge webpage called MySpace. So, instead of having one's own unique url, you get to be a #247 on superflygal's list. And the editin code? Please! Now everyone's a darn website building pro. Not to mention, Rupert Murdoch owns this website, so I guess it's "fair and balanced", like Fox. MyShoelace, MyDisgrace, MyFace, MySnot, MySpam, whatever...Move on, and ignore this 4 millionth insult to intelligence.
83 - Elizabeth
I like myspace, because I can keep in contact with aquaintences and friends that I don't have time to call regularly. It's an easy way to talk as a group about parties, times to meet, etc. etc. I admit that a lot of people are lame, but I don't add people I don't know, only people I actually know in real life-and I've found a lot of old friends that I had lost contact with, so I'm really thankful for that. I also added a couple bands I like so I can get their posts about upcoming shows. Also, I like to use it to post information about causes I'm involved in, so many friends can have some information about things I think are important. I would be happy if I never had another stranger look at my page-I don't give a crap if they do or not. But if they do or try to add me, I just delete the message, it's as simple as that. I don't understand why so many people hate myspace when it is only what you make of it. My friends and I have a good time swaping pictures and leaving each other funny comments...where's the harm in that? Or should I just be playing solitare at work...
84 - Elizabeth
oh yes and I also have a livejournal. But it's private. So I started my myspace to have something to share with friends that was a little easier for us html/jave/whatever "uneducated" (gasp! god forbid!)
85 - Avatar Kanix
It's like a bad MMORPG. You get friends (level up), join groups (clans) and you add pictures (purchase new gear). All the while you're trying to get more friends (levels) and make your profile look nicer than others.
86 - my space sucks
I agree.. myspace blows.. it's an easy way to let losers like my ex-boyfriend scout for new girls without leaving his home while a week earlier telling me, " I don't want anyone."
87 - Sean confer
i think the funny thing about myspace is that people are getting in all these internet relationships. Ha!! what a joke. for all they know
the people the are talking to can be some 5000 pound dude lying in his bed on a laptop chatting to some fat chick with a club foot. funny stuff funny stuff. I feel sorry for the dumb bastards who try an internet relationship.
88 - Tony Clifton
Bravo my friend. I like the one person who society is crumbling. So true. This generation, God where do I begin. First off being an idiot is mandatory. Any knowledge of history, politics, or anything that really matters you can forget about. It's all about looking good, going to the meat market dance club, dancing on the tables etc. And what is with the absolute obsession with being not just tan but mulato? Some of these people obviously tan AND use bronzer. These gals are certainly much trashier than they used to be. I guess we have Ms. Spears and Aguilera to thank for that. And yes, don't put 90 photos of yourself up in various states of undress engaging in lesbian acts etc. and then get offended when it's just not the hot boys you like that respond to you. What do you expect? God help us.
89 - Bubblehead
I deleted my account a few days ago after a year of using it nearly every day. It felt like getting a divorce I was so attatched to it! But after it felt good. I felt free. No more people peeking into my personal life or leaving glitter comments that took up too much space. No more chain emails from people I don't even know. No one looking at my income and marital status. I am free now. I think I will use the time to try to do some service projects for other people. Myspace made me selfish, so that I only cared about myself and the messages I got. NOW I AM FREE!
90 - leelee
'Myspace Sucks' merch (tees, doggie tees, mugs, etc.) can be found at www.myspacesucks.8m.com. There's also www.antimyspace.uk.com which is still under construction but there's a small (so far) forum going.
I completely agree that it's narcissistic and irresponsibly porny. Like an afterschool boys ang girls club with a unlocked door linking it to a strip club/peep show, only free. Totally not appropriate.
91 - BRandon Robinson
I really hate my space for every reason imaginable and then some, mostly because of the fact all the people you lost touch with are on myspace but you lost touch with those people for a damn good reason screw myspace lets make a site were we can all talk about myspace with other people and talk about all the reasons why we hate it so much
92 - b.
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Excellent article.
oh yeah and just in case all those reasons are not enough to FuCKING HATE MYSPACE, let us take a moment to consider what one is actually doing when joining myspace and filling in all those boxes and detailing all the areas of ones life, interests etc....
GIVING ALL THAT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR LIFE TO....RUPERT BASTARD MURDOCH,THE GUY WHO ALREADY CONTROLS MOST OF WHAT YOU READ IN THE NEWSPAPERS,SEE ON TV ETC ETC! OVER 6 MILLION PEOPLE AND GROWING, JUST TELLIING UNCLE RUPERT EXACTLY WHAT THEY LIKE, WHAT OPINIONS THEY HAVE, AND....MIGHT LIKE TO BUY...TARGETED MARKETING ANYONE????
93 - Who the fuck cares
Yeah it's pretty gay, (sorry old habits die hard). I had one then got off... Then Got BACK ON!!! Then proudly I got back off. Then due to pressure I'm back on the band wagon. But I haven't logged on in months. So I think the problem may be subsiding. I consider you all to be one enormous support group.
94 - Linda
yeah this sooo isnt true. get sum frendds on myspace and its actually cool. so try it again mr. glass half empty and this time actually get sum frends and make an effort dumbass.
95 - Linda
yeah this sooo isnt true. get sum frendds on myspace and its actually cool. so try it again mr. glass half empty and this time actually get sum frends and make an effort dumbass.
96 - Jewels
OK, I was entreated to enter MySpace - by a "friend". I have had many 'offers' of - well let's call them, "friendships/companionships",--- I can't count. Last guy sent me a pic with -uhm - not much left to imagine...he was awfully cute and hot, and...24; I'm a 'little' older than that... but he said he likes older women and me... so is it a pick-up space, a myspace, or a (in the case of the pics) a porno-space???
97 - Reese
Hi, my name is reese and I am a recovering Myspace addict.
Interesting article. I think the attitude is well summed up at www.ilovemyselfspace.com
98 - Reese
Sorry, misstyped the link, editor!!!
99 - shit
Y'all need to get a life.
100 - thatkid
Myspace is gay, first of all ppl spend too much time on it and not getting enough excercize for their fat asses. second of all people should not post their life online with all the fuckin hackers. No wonder people are getting stalked and their like"oh no, im being stalked" NO SHIT U HAVE A FUCKING MYSPACE U STUPID WHORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they should just delete the whole website because nobody gives a shit about u most of the people are friends so talk to them in school or sumthing dont wait to get home to fucking type shit to them u can tell them in person. 12 year old kids have myspace accounts as well as 50 year olds. Thats just wrong. FUCK MYSPACE AnD FUCK WHOEVER WASTES THEIR TIME ON IT!!!!!
101 - Travis
okay first i whoever wrote that fucking STORY about how you they hate my space is the biggest fucking loser of them all, why waste so much time on hating something, if you really hate it that much...dont fucking use it. grow up, get a life or go do something. Unfortunately for you its the most used website on the internet. Yeah i have an account at myspace and sure things bother me on it..but it fucking shit, not enough to blow up about, if something bothers me i either stop reading, or not look at that persons page anymore. Myspace has alot of neat tools that allows one to BLOCK people or if you want to strickly use it for old friend then you can set your profile to private. okay i'm done....quit fucking criticizing a god damn internet site...YOU DONT HAVE TO USE IT!
102 - jsoh
well..i'm glad people have the time and devotion to bitch about what other people do with their time.
really smart.
but hey..you beat me..you managed to waste a good 5 minutes of my life. i'm suing.
103 - Josie
OMFG. I gave up arguing about my space ages ago, simply because so many people use it and you can't win. My space just feeds the image obsessed and insanely insecure society we live in. And those people who find joy and security out of posing and creating FAKE attractiveness on a computer screen, are simply sad lost souls who seek unessicary amounts of attention as an alternative to living a real life.
104 - Sabrina
Well my 15 year old has myspace. I check on it daily, I have her log in and password, I even helped design her page for her. She has only friends she knows and some bands. She has even mentioned how happy she is I help her with it and gives us positive time together.
Allot of what you said is funny and true. What I find funny is those with 1000+ friends, omg get real right?
But fact is if you feel soooo strongly in all you wrote then why are you on myspace??? It is really annoying to see people complain about the things they have power to change. Don't like it then don't subscribe, simple as that.
One other thing about the bands.... myspace was originally designed and started for BANDS!!! So if you add a band as your friend.... you will get their mail... After all it was their space first. So again it is your choice.
105 - Nicholas
You are allowed your opinion but there is no freakin' difference between this crappy page and any MySpace page. You are just complaining about society. If you don't like it move into a cave on some deserted Island. Oh by the way personal attacks are freedom of speech but I won't lay one on you because you need to pack for that Island or some Buddist Monestry. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Last time I tried to give some buddhist philosophy I was booted from Classmates.com because the moron Republicans were offended and the moron Republicans who run Classmates.com agreed that Buddhism is bad for the present administrations image. I am not buddist by the way and I think Buddha was a jerk for abandoning his family to sit under a tree and contemplate.
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106 - fart
MYSPACE IS THE MESSIAH OF MANKIND! MYSPACE WILL SAVE GENERATION "MTV" AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF EVIL.
LONG LIVE MYSPACE BECAUSE I CAN NOW HAVE FRIENDS THAT DON'T PISS ON MY FEELINGS!
107 - Ben Greene
dont not fear my angry MySpace haters the backlash of MySpace becoming to commercialised and "cool" shall soon begin and then MySpace will hopefully dissolve into the wind. If it dosent i'm going to personally stump fuck every single one of those ugly "oh so metal" and screamo scenesters decapitated heads. do not doub me either it will happen.
108 - Nathan
Myspace is just another "reality" show on cyber space.
It purports to put people in touch with one another as friends, but in reality is just another sad pick-up service for those that can't be bothered to get off there arse and go out into the real world. They find comfort in the minimal amount of effort required to "make friends". If people want to meet the opposite sex as most single people do, join a group, club, sports team, etc etc.
The problem here is that it may be sending a unconscious message to the younger generation where in the future they may become socially inadequate when living in the real world.
We all find comfort in being wanted and the sad truth is that the majority of users on myspace actually believe they are wanted, when pinged with a friend request!
Collecting virtual reality friends is no match for actually meeting and socialising with real people.
Get a fucking life!
read this entry from a
dance studio in Houston...
109 - Nathan
Further to the above, I suggest this to myspace lovers...collect a group of frineds for a month. Then post an email or bulletin telling them you are canceling your account. LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS, so that your "friends" can contact you after the fact. I am willing to bet your inbox will be empty from the virtual friends you collected.
If you really want to collect pictures of girls or guys, I cordially suggest surfing the sex pic post sites and downloading the pictures onto your pc, as they are probably equal in realiity to your cyber myspace friends!
110 - Bridgette
okay okay...
i must say that...yes i am infact a myspace addict and can definitely not help it
(well i can...i just really dont give a flying fuck...it keeps me entertain for i have like no life)...
and you are totally correct with about everything that you have written about myspace...
i think that this is about the funniest thing i have ever read...and i think you are an excilent writer(unlike myself...i suck at spelling)...
anyway...thanks for putting something out there that makes people laugh because...sometimes thats just what people need...the funny part is that this whole thing is just chock-full of truth...
oh and sorry i put the little dot dot dot thing in so much(...)its a bad habit...
anyway...thanks again..
111 - liz
who cares? whether or not you have a myspace doesnt mean your "alternative" or "emo" (whatever the hell that means) or not...you are who you are, get over it. why should we try to classify ourselves into categories or patterns, its ridiculous!
p.s. (from liz's friend) just don't let myspace take over your life. I agree with Nathan (#108) that it is important to have real-life interactions. Myspace is okay, but at the same time is very impersonal and can cut you off from the reality of society if you let yourself get too caught up in it.
112 - annoyed_myspacer
They delete accounts with reasoning that lacks any reasoning. My account was deleted and I did nothing. I didnt to anyone to anything other than accept add requests. I think they are full of it and are going to get attacked by a huge lawsuit one of these days.
113 - adfdasfasf
You missed THE MOST OBVIOUSLY ANNOYING THING ABOUT myspace.
THE WEB DESIGN!!!!!
114 - Corbin
Well put, myspace is just retarded. You have a "myspace" and you are fucking retarded
115 - jevon
Heres my addition:
Idiots who try and have conversations on each other's walls over a week and 20 posts when all could have been resolved with a simple phone call.
116 - jevon
also. fuck myspace, biggest piece of shit website ever :D
117 - Mark Bellinghaus
I have never even logged into that site--I mean I only know that name from the horrable news in the media. About those raped teenagers etc.
Somone told me that people in ther can claim to have this or that many "friends"! Is that so?
I invite you all to move to Los Angeles and get some hard life lessons on how hard it is or might be to call someone "a friend" especially here!
Can you call these "my space-friends" at 1:00AM (without them thinking it is a booty call) and ask them for some advice or god forbit--help?!
Reality is different and if someone is over 25 and a "my space member" Careful!
118 - nicholas
I understand if u don't like myspace but give me a break , so i'll just make a website that reveals around attacking myspace and u know make it part of my life because i just hate how popular it's become
119 - Cheryl
I really like your article. To me, myspace is just a meat market. It makes me feel completely disgusted sometimes, but why in the world do i keep on going there daily!? At least there are usually positives to negatives..I did meet my boyfriend of 8 months there and I have been able to be invited to different events from people that would normally not have the balls or desire to contact me. Like anything else, myspace is quick and easy. If you want to find some hot chick to get off to then I suppose it's there, if you want to talk to someone through a message who you would never have the balls to talk to, then that option is there too.
120 - crystal
myspace inst all that, it is mostly for freaks to post explicit pics of themselves
121 - billy wagner
Man myspace is so sweet, I have a pic of myself in the mirror and all my crack that I have yet to smoke. I love to take pictures of myself and plaster them all over the site. Then I browse the site for hotties and send them messgaes about how hotttt they are and how I wanna 'bang em man' so like wateva dawg im do myspace and me and my band are gonna make it big oneday just u look out
122 - Morgan
I'm on myspace, and yes, I do have too much time on my hands. I'm not going to deny it, I'm not going to rant about how crappy Myspace, in fact, I'll just not care, block the people that irritate me, and go do something better with my time like dying or something.
To all those people who called this guy a loser with no life and a hypocrite.
Even if he is a loser with no life and a hypocrite, does that make what he said wrong?
123 - Nikki
Right on! Down with myspace! I have a myspace dedicated to hating myspace. Oh the irony.
124 - Brittany
Hey. I do like myspace but i do hate it at the same time. What I hate is that people are ALWAYS posting bulletins saying things like: "please comment me. ill love you forever" im just like....no. and then they move on to: "PLEASE!! ILL LOVE YOU!!! :(" and then im like....gosh..no. and then they move on to: "LOOK! IM GETTING TIRED OF PEOPLE NOT COMMENTING ME!!! BEA REAL FRIEND" i say stop bitching aobut it and delete them. if they want to comment you theyll comment you. if they dont they dont. GWT THE FUCK OVER IT! that's my opinion. *+*britt*+*
125 - sandra
funny piece. i use myspace to organize for upcoming actions & campaigns that i work on. as annoying as it can be...myspace can be a great tool to get information out to people... sad but true.