I hate MySpace

[theredbaron47]

I absolutely hate MySpace, with the passion of 1,000 fiery suns. It's so damn creepy. You don't know who anyone is for sure. ( Yes, I know I'm generalizing. If you don't like that, feel free to bite me. ) All the stupid shit you can add onto your page. . . yeah, like I really want dancing sunflowers or whatever on my web page. I guess my main complaint with 99.9% of MySpace is:

Who Cares?

I don't care what your "Mood" is, nor do I care about which momentous song you're currently listening to. I know people, honest to God, they will spend no less than 4 hours a day --> just <-- dicking around on MySpace.

AGH!

Now, I have a Facebook page. And I must admit, Facebook has definitely gone downhill since the advent of those ridiculous "apps" or whatever they are. No, I don't want to be part of your Oregon Trail party. No, I don't want to bite a zombie / vampire / vagrant. No, I most certainly do not want to know which Sex and the City character / piece of underwear / bacterial spore I am.

I JUST WANT TO USE IT FOR THE NETWORKING TOOL IT WAS MEANT TO BE USED FOR, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

But for all the complaints of Facebook, it doesn't have the pre-teen feeling of MySpace, though. Funny how that works.

-.-

[Boozy]

I've never used MySpace, because I've always assumed it was for teenagers. I only recently discovered that adults use it to.

I use Facebook. Its great for spreading news among all my family and friends in one full swoop. I've been able to get into back into contact with a lot of people from high school and university, and I've found a few neat volunteer opportunities. My sister received a job offer through networking with Facebook. Its a great tool.

People who ask me to be a zombie or play a dumb-ass pop culture trivia game with them are usually deleted from my friends list. Otherwise I'm inundated by stupid application requests.

I have been playing chess with an old friend of mine with their chess app, though. I'll admit, it's kind of neat.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I admit, I like it as a way to keep up with a select handful of people...a few friends, my siblings, a couple of my favorite wrestlers, etc. And I decorate just to have something to do while I'm waiting on downloads or whatever else. It's a fun timewaster to me, but I don't take it too seriously. It's mostly for when I get bored with random Wiki-surfing.

[Greenday]

Facebook is what I use. I'm a college student, it's basically a requirement. It's a good way to keep in touch with friends from home and such. All the application messages piss me off though. If I want to do one, I'll join it myself. Though if there really is one on "which bacterial spore are you", I'll find that one.

Myspace I hate. I've never heard one good thing about it. The only thing I EVER hear about it is how people now hate each other because of it, adults trick kids and those kids commit suicide, you get the idea. Myspace=drama.

[Saydrah]

I also totally hate Myspace- the layouts, the music, the "thanks for the add" messages...

...But it IS a good marketing tool.

[blas87]

I've lost interest in Myspace since all the spam. I know Tom tries as hard as he can, but people still slip through the cracks. Infected profiles send spam to everyone. It gets old. Porn bots are even more annoying.

[linguist]

Myspace I hate. I've never heard one good thing about it.

i got a job due a series of articles i posted on my blog on myspace.

and it's about the most reliable way i have of getting in touch with my brother while he's overseas.

my friend's band got signed after being discovered by an a&r rep through their myspace page.

now you've heard 3 good things.

[theredbaron47]

Facebook does all of the above while maintaining a better-looking layout and less spam, IMO. Congrats on the job and your friend's band, however.

[chops]

I had enough of MySpace, what with the ads (the interstitial ads still require you to click "Skip this Advertisement" even if you have Firefox with an ad-blocker), the spam, and the last straw for me: the pop-overs to announce new features. You may be trying to check your messages when everything grinds to a halt, the page dims, and you have to acknowledge this damned BOX sitting in the middle of your page, blocking you from doing what you need to do, before you can do anything else. That really tore it for me. Oh, and there's the way it seems to drop one's IQ by 30 points just by logging in...and the way that 3/4 of the messages seem to be written in txt spk text speak.

January 30 was International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. I took advantage of that occasion in the hopes, vain as they might have been, that my cancellation was grouped with enough others to make Tom Anderson, Rupert Murdoch, et al. notice. Probably not, but what's done is done.

/rant

[Rapscallion]

January 30 was International Delete Your MySpace Account Day.

Amazing how some people - not necessarily you - get so wound up about a free service that they form a coalition to delete accounts en masse. Simply amazing!

Rapscallion, amused

[Boozy]

MySpace is an orgy of advertising, and therefore is not free to its users. Their time and attention are worth something. Access to a decision-maker in charge of a wallet is valuable. That's why advertising is expensive.

We pay for it at the till. The cost of advertising is wrapped into the cost of the products we buy.

[chops]

Amazing how some people - not necessarily you - get so wound up about a free service that they form a coalition to delete accounts en masse. Simply amazing!

Rapscallion, amused

Well, think of it this way...while it costs us nothing out of pocket, News Corporation makes money hand over fist with their advertising. Theoretically, the fewer accounts active, the less advertising they can serve to the captive audience that is their accountholders.

As I suggested in my last post, however, I doubt that the number of people who actually did cancel their account on 1/30 would have made much of a difference to those who were counting.

[Rapscallion]

How many people don't automatically ignore adverts? I don't mean by adding in software to rid your screen of them, but more that I've got to the point where I don't even notice them any more.

I'll admit that I have bought from advertising, but only once was it for a product that wasn't a support for the website in question. I've bought a number of T-shirts from webcomics to support the artist, and because I liked the designs. I've only once bought a product from an advert, and it was one of the few adverts that made me more than flick my eyes past it.

Of course, this all amuses me when we occasionally have people who try to cause trouble on CS.com and flounce off saying that we'll never see them again. Okay, this loses us what? No advertising revenue there, and the community as a whole is often improved by losing someone who has proved that they can't adapt to the style of place we have.

Rapscallion

[Boozy]

Of course, this all amuses me when we occasionally have people who try to cause trouble on CS.com and flounce off saying that we'll never see them again. Okay, this loses us what?

The "I'll never shop here again!" threat indeed does not work with places like CS.com, which has no advertising revenue.

But that doesn't mean that MySpace shouldn't be concerned about a drop-off in accounts or user activity, because they do make profits from selling advertising space. Network television advertising is the most lucrative kind there is - and that's a service free to the consumer as well. It doesn't mean that the consumer is not or should not be powerful in their demands.

And for the record, we are ALL more affected by advertising than we'd like to think.

[Rapscallion]

because they do make profits from selling advertising space.

Sucks to be them!

Rapscallion