Why Myspace.com Sucks (updated)
If the internet was a bar, then Myspace.com would be the bathroom wall! I am embarrassed I even had an account on myspace. I have been researching myspace for this entry, collected my info, and am now going to unleash some brettdriscoll.com hell on myspace! If you don’t know what myspace is, then please skip this post, and be happy that you have no clue. I am not going to even explain how myspace works in fear of sparking your interest. To use the catch-phrase of the year; myspace is a “social networking site”. Yeah I know if you read my earlier post, then you know that I used to belong to some, but I have wised up. They are great ideas, applied in a manner that ruins the reputation of the www! They should be paying sites with background checks, and age limitations. I am warning you! This is going to be a rant, so please bare with me lol.
Myspace is a pedophiles utopia! Where else can you go to find half naked 14 year olds that say they are 17? And the worst part is, you can do a search and find what ever type of person you want! There is no age check; all you need to sign up is a valid email address. I mean come on people! From Dateline: “In the last month, authorities have charged at least three men with sexually assaulting teenagers they found through MySpace.com”
Lets make the two geeks who created myspace millionares! Good Call!
Myspace gives false hopes and self-confidence to people by allowing users to comment on pictures, webpages, and blogs. And do you people really think those pictures are even half real?? If you do you are a sucker. Girls! What is wrong with you! If you feel the need to post half naked “look at me I’m a wannabe model” pictures of yourself to receive comments like “wanna bang” and “urrr hott” then you my friends have bigger problems than low self-esteem. 18-30 year olds should be the only people allowed on myspace! And even then you still are a sucker. If you are in your mid 30’s and older and are on myspace, I feel sorry for you. If I am offending anyone I know, then I am sorry! But if you are anyone I know, then you are too good to be on that site, because you don’t need it. So give yourself some real self-confidence and cancel your account. If you are not a band, and have over 100 friends on myspace………..then you my friend are a tool. I would wager that you people don’t even talk to 99.9% of your friends, so how can you even call them friends in the first place!
Update
I thought of something else today that just kills me! Myspace gives you the ability to create groups or clicks (you know like the ones you had in high school). So lets say you start a group for good looking people (yeah really really shallow I know, but there is tons of them on there), then you ask a bunch of hot people to join your group right? How gay is that! The funny part is when the person who started the group……..isnt even good looking lol! So if you have started a group (any group at all) then you are also a tool! If there are people out there (and I know there is) that meet more than just one of my myspace “tool requirements” then your status my friend just got upgraded to a “major tool”…lol thanks for playing!
The actual layout and design of myspace is down right atrocious! Non standard compliant mark-up with a bug ridden user interface, enough Google ads to choke a horse, and features that work 25% of the time = junk! The creators of myspace even call the layout “ghetto” on purpose…WTF! Myspace has 43 Million members……yes 43 Million members! Myspace receives more hits per day than either Google or AOL! Do the math people, myspace makes more on one days worth of advertising than most people will see in a lifetime! Myspace was just sold to News Corp. for $580 million!
More ammo:
- Kevin Federline has a myspace account! Enough said!
- Dateline
- The Brandon Show
- www.urbandictionary.com
Also worth checking out is:
man-blog’s myspace patrol #1
man-blog’s myspace patrol #2
There are truly some decent people on Myspace and I have been lucky enough to meet some of you or know you already! Please join me, and cancel your accounts!
Peace out my friends!
Lip Provided By: Mikey
February 7th, 2006 at 6:26 am
*clap clap*
I would say something, but you pretty much said everything there is to be said.
Lip Provided By: JDevaney
February 7th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Parental Control Software was created for crap like MySpace.
If you don’t know what your kids are doing on the internet you should. I actually feel bad for my future kids. They will be on Corporate Style Lockdown behind my home firewall.
Lip Provided By: Kristin
February 7th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
I agree.
I recently found out that my cousin is gay via his myspace profile (no joke).
Not that I have a problem with it, but I would have rather found out a different way. I worry about the kindof people he talks to on there. He’s only 15!
Lip Provided By: Brett
February 7th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Thanks for the comments guys and girl! I’m glad I am not alone.
Kristin, that is kind of a wierd way to find something like that out. Makes you wonder why some kids feel they can talk about personal things like that to complete strangers on an internet site, but can’t talk to their own relatives.
Lip Provided By: .derek
February 8th, 2006 at 10:30 am
i couldn’t agree more with your statements.
unfortunately, tagworld is beginning to reflect some of the garbage that myspace runs rampant with. i have read a few things regarding tagworld implementing new filters which is great. an active community working to squash such issues is exactly what is needed.
Lip Provided By: kristin
February 8th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
.derek: stop stalking me mkay?
Speaking of myspace… there was this story on digg.com today about a really snazzy myspace profile (that was quickly deleted by Tom LOL).
Anyways.. someone linked my site on one of the comments and I got all this crazy traffic and a bunch of people stole my myspace layout again LOL.
I give up.
Lip Provided By: Brett
February 8th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
lol I actually commented on .derek’s site awhile ago………….it’s such a small world wide web after all.
Lip Provided By: holly
February 9th, 2006 at 2:00 am
this has nothing to do with your date on monday does it? lol sorry;)
Lip Provided By: holly
February 9th, 2006 at 2:05 am
ok i just went to the man-blog’s myspace patrol #1
man-blog’s myspace patrol #2
(see above) and laughed my ass off! that was great, thanks, i needed that.:)
Lip Provided By: Brett
February 9th, 2006 at 8:33 am
lol no not about anything in my personal life. Just realized what I was promoting by using the site. Bad things man! Bad things!
Lip Provided By: Paddy O'Furniture
February 9th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
I totally agree about MySpace. MySpace reminds me of what happened when AOL first jumped onto the Internet. I never realized how messed up people were until I browsed through some of the MySpace profiles, and coming from me that is saying a lot.
And to Kristin’s comment, I totally understand although I didn’t find out something quite as big. But I really didn’t want to read about my younger brother’s sex life. He’s still a kid as far as I’m concerned even though he is 22.
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Lip Provided By: Yvonne
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:15 pm
I think myspace is AWESOME. I love it. Best thing ever invented. If people dont wanna get stalked they would put there profiles to private.
Thats what I did and only my friends can see it. You all know that u all are SECRET myspace lovers.
Lip Provided By: Dr. Sack
March 29th, 2006 at 4:07 am
I think you might be gay if you like myspace.. I mean I’m not gay and i hate myspace… do you see the connection? My cuz thinks that it is a wonderful site. He is a sexual predator loves that site for some reason i can’t figure out why but who knows… I don’t care for them to much…
Lip Provided By: Pirateking888
August 12th, 2006 at 11:37 am
The main things that make me angry about it, is that people in my own school will looks for other kids from our school on myspace. They could be good friends, or have never talked to them face to face ever because of different school social classes. But now on myspace, someone could send a little glittered animated GIF of some animal dancing with a colorful heading, and that means they are now firends and they actually care about that person. BULL. They only use myspace as a means to learn about that person, without talking to them in real life.
Then there’s the myspace addicts, I have a friend who will come over to my house, and when I am not looking will log onto their myspace. Even if they were just on that morning. That’s when it gets to the poiint where it sickens me. I have seen people close to me, younger than most on myspace actually brag that they have more friends on their list.
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To be honest, I have an account on http://www.1up.com
It’s similar to myspace in some ways, but the major difference is, I don’t do the “Friend Request” nonsense. I go to that site for videogame information and to share the videogame interest. On that site, you don’t have talk about personal life. I f I get a friend request, I will check out their profile, age, interests, and game list. If they share no gaming similarities, I don’t accept their request, because the point shouldn’t be to get lots of “FRIENDS” it should be to share interests, and if there is a large age gap, avoid. You can call me a hypocrite, saying “That’s exactly what myspace is.” Then that’s your decision. My point is, 1up doesn’t allow you to get TOO personal on their site.
Lip Provided By: Mike Bilboe
August 19th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
hey people i totally agree with what you are saying…i mean c’mon at the other end there could be some man who is like 9012 jerking off over 13 year old girl who pretend there 16-17.
The only reason i use it is for comunication to people…my friends..it is stupid..
Lip Provided By: me
November 27th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
OMG
WATS RONG WIF YU
myspace is totalli gr8…
just cus sum ppl post naked pics dusnt mean that evri1 dus!
you cant say that ppl onli go on myspace for those reasons…just cus your some sad loser who hasnt got any frends 2 talk to in th 1st place
from th way your ritin im gessin yur an adult yeh… myspace is a way for kidz 2 meet eachotha…if some ppl r stupid enuff 2 meet paedophiles then thats their fault. not myspace’s
Lip Provided By: Brett
November 27th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
ummmm yeah…..
Lip Provided By: ure an idiot
February 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
YOU PEOPLE ACT LIKE MYSPACE PAVED THE WAY FOR PEDOPHILES. PEDOPHILES EXISTED BEFORE MYSPACE. AND THEY’LL EXIST AFTER MYSPACE. YAHOO HAS A “DATING” FEATURE. JUST LIKE MYSPACE, YOU CREATE A FAKE ASS USERNAME AND BIRTHDAY..AND VOILA! YOU CAN BROWSE ANYONE YOU WANT. DONT BLAME MYSPACE FOR YOUR CHILDREN’S UNNACEPTABLE BEHAVIOR. MYSPACE CLEARLY STATES U MUST BE 18 TO USE THE SITE. BUT DOES THAT MEAN THEY’RE GONNA HAVE THE MYSPACE POLICE STANDIN NEXT TO YOU WHILE U SIGN UP, ASKIN TO SEE YOUR ID?? FUCK NO! IF YOUR 14 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER IS A SLUTTY WHORE WHO WANTS TO POSE NUDE FOR MEN WHOSE VERY NATURE IS TO LOOK AT FEMALES (UNLESS THEY’RE GAY) THEN THATS HER ISSUE, ALONG WITH YOURS.
Lip Provided By: WTF!
July 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
MYSPACE ROX MY SOX! ITS NOT LIKE MYSPACE HASN’T TRIED TO STOP IT W/ PRIVATE PROFILES BUT STUPID PPL DON’T USE IT AND BAD THINGS HAPPEN! I WONDER WHOSE FAULT IT IS! I HAVE A MYSPACE AND I AM 12! MY PARENTS KNOW ABOUT IT AND CHECK IT OUT! IF PARENTS FIND OUT ABOUT THEIR KIDS HAVING A MYSPACE I THINK THEY SHOULD JUST MAKE SURE ITS PRIVATE AND PG!
Lip Provided By: Chad
March 8th, 2008 at 5:24 am
I won’t lie, I too use Myspace, but I also enjoy my time on Yuwie as well.
Yuwie is filled with a great team of people and the founder of it all actually listens to what we have to say; and takes it into consideration.
That’s more than I can say about most sites who tend to completely ignore their users once they’ve gained ground in the market and are earning a healthy living.
Unlike many other social sites, Yuwie is taking a twist on the whole social networking trend and actually sharing a part of its advertising revenue with its users.
Sure its pennies at first, but its still a baby only having a little over 500,000 members compared to the 200 million of Myspace and is likely more money than you’ll ever see from Myspace or Facebook alike.
So, why not give Yuwie a shot? It’s free to sign up and you might be surprised to find that its not all that different than Myspace or Facebook aside from what I find to be a much more mature and family oriented audience.
Oh, and one more thing, Yuwie, DOES NOT tolerate spam. So, you won’t have to worry about being harrassed by those pesky porn bots with pictures of half naked girls begging to be your friend or the comment spam bots posing as your buddies rejoicing over how they just won a “$500 Macy’s giftcard”.
Yuwie pays by Paypal or Check, $5 cashout for Paypal and $25 for a check, and who doesn’t use Paypal nowadays? Sure Paypal isn’t without it’s flaws, but it still commands the lead over being one of the most safest and easiest ways to transfer money online.
Join Yuwie!