huh????

[swingchickie]

someone PLEASE explain to me what the deal is with myspace. i don't get it. you set up a profile, and then people can see it and ask you to be their friend. and then what? is that it??? so i have a profile, and everyone who wants to be my friend is either a fat 50-year-old guy who calls me "sexy", or a band promoting themselves. (oh, and menschenjaeger, but he's cool.) so, now what do i do? am i supposed to follow the lead of all these other women on there, and come up with some graphic of a fairy with her boobs hanging out and animated sparkles around her that says "have a great weekend, gorgeous!" and post it to a bunch of guys' profiles? what the hell is the purpose of this site????



going on sunday to see the postsecret exhibit in reading, i'm so excited. i've been addicted to the website for years, it's my sunday morning ritual... so i have to see the live exhibit before it closes. i think the rest of the weekend is going to be housework. boo.

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[boutell.livejournal.com]

That's almost it, yeah.

However there's also an LJ-like aspect: you can post bulletins, which your friends can read. So yes, there's something to do once you're there.

My account is one way I keep up with the philly rollergirls (as if anybody could keep up with the philly rollergirls).

Myspace also allows you to jam in as much crappy HTML and CSS code as you want. Which has created a cottage industry of enhanced myspace profile pages. People who have real web sites don't give a flying fawk, but broke kids love it.

I think most of the non-bogus growth of myspace is due to the original notion that people can search for your real name, and if they know it, ask the system to add you as a friend. That is, they don't automatically get a yes, but they can at least find that you have a profile that way, if you choose to give myspace your real name. It's not displayed but people who already know it can search for it.

So people come to myspace and find out if their real-life friends are already there and invite them if they're not... etc.

[sarcasmoscorner.livejournal.com]

I hate Myspace. Hate Hate Hate. I only use it to track events for some freelance work I do. And because for some reason I need to be on every social networking site in existence, despite the fact I never actually use them to network, socially or otherwise.

That said, if you want to be "friends", my My Space is here:
http://www.myspace.com/sarcasmoscorner

I try to limit my "friends" to people I actually know.

And, of course, Johnny Deppp.

Tom is my only friend

[notshakespeare.livejournal.com]

MySpace is a site with two main functions:

1) A smart way for bands to market themselves through psuedo-direct contact

2) A way for teens to have an online popularity contest.

Neither is a valid reason for you and I to fill in any info, images etc.

[cwjennifer.livejournal.com]

*snort*

I have found it a useful tool in finding people who you thought had vanished off the face of the earth. And it's an excellent time-waster as you go through the friends of your friends and see just what people are willing to tell complete and utter strangers.

You can set up your account so that only people who know you can add you (i.e. they'd have to know your last name). Or you can just hit "deny" at will ;-)

[pinska.livejournal.com]

i don't get it, either. and the scary graphics and stuff (like what you wrote about) bug me beyond everything else! :)