MySpace is a disease

-or- spreading like a cancer

Published on March 17, 2006 By BlueDev In Internet

Yes, you heard me correctly. MySpace is a disease.

And not just a benign disease either. This is a serious, aggerssive, pernicious disease. One that seems hell-bent on taking over the internet. In fact, this vile, filthy, perverted disease has risen to be in the top ten sites globally. Yes, top ten English sites in the world. Like a particularly aggressive cancer, it is consuming all in its path.

Why do I call MySpace a disease? Just go over there and start looking at random sites. Aesthetically they make me want to puke and gouge my eyes out with rusty nails in turns. Cluttered beyond belief with no actual content buried in the dross. Abundant grainy photos that look like they were taken by fatally intoxicated, blind donkeys (no opposable thumbs) adorn most sites. Guys who look like they have glued a pair of pubes on their chin to make them look more manly epitomize the word "poser". Girls apparently striving to be the next big Playboy model toss up "glamour" shots of themselves willy-nilly.

But what concerns me the most are supposedly intelligent, bright people who are jumping on the bandwagon. I have seen a couple of prog metal bands that I really respect pimping their MySpace site. I suppose this just exemplifies the axiom that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Come on though! Did they actually even check out MySpace before they started their sites? Are these the people you want to attract? I suppose publicity is the key, and with the disturbing growth of MySpace they are sure to get that. But there is just something about MySpace that turns my stomach.

Oh, right, that disease thing.

Comments (Page 1)

jlaur65

on Mar 17, 2006

i had a myspace. i did not put any weird or stupid pictures or tell the whole world my exact location like most of the others i know. but. i deleted mine a month or so ago. realizing the stupidity of it. as well as all the abductions there have been across the nation. it's very dangerous. kids are so uninformed and so naive about how to use the internet. they post way too much stuff about themselve so that anyone who had the desire could pinpoint their exact location, name, age, and have a picture to go along with as well. it's so stupid.

BlueDev

on Mar 18, 2006

Thanks for the comment. I think you highlight one of the reasons I think it is so pernicious. It just really becomes an breeding ground for inappropriate and potentially dangerous action toward minors.

pseudosoldier

on Mar 18, 2006

Having recently started a myspace site... I agree with you nearly completely.

The friends I joined the site to correspond with are actually very intelligent, and (possibly for that reason) don't really use the site very much! They've used it specifically to correspond with their friends and family, not to whore themselves out to whomever "friends" or "adds" them on myspace.

I admit, I've looked at local women on there. It saddens me:
1) that I've sunk to that level and
2) that they've sunk to that level.

I'm a hair's breadth away from kiboshing my site, even though I added another friend (a IRL one) just today.

WebGizmos

on Mar 18, 2006

LMAO...All I can say is...Uh...Um...God save us.

I love the self discriptions the girls give themselves...bitch...trash...Hoe...How...however they say it. I wonder who they're trying to impress with that? And just about every page I clicked had this blaring crappy rap stuff on it...for the life of me I cannot understand how anyone can listen to that crap. Anyway, I'm with you on this one BlueDev. It's circling the bowl.

And if I ever heard my daughter started a page on that site I'd send her off to boot camp.

bakerstreet

on Mar 18, 2006

It's a sickness, but the sickness isn't MySpace. MySpace is a symptom. What you are looking at is our culture. We have created a world where acceptance is the rule and any accountability is unfair. If it wasn't MySpace, it would be something else, or we'd just be more ignorant of the cretinous mess our world is becoming.

Draginol

on Mar 18, 2006

I don't understand. What's wrong with MySpace? I'm not that familiar with it. But it's basically a blog site right?

BlueDev

on Mar 18, 2006

I don't understand. What's wrong with MySpace? I'm not that familiar with it. But it's basically a blog site right?

I wish I could pin it down Brad. There is just something about MySpace that attracts the ultra-attention whoring types. Teenagers, and not even teenagers, post all about their sexual conquests on MySpace, post ridiculous photos of themselves, and it really seems like a dangerous site for youth. Something about it just screams "sexual predator playground".

There is an intangible about it that just pushes it over the edge of a normal blog site.

Oh, and it is ugly as hell. Seriously, the pages are so poorly designed and laid out, so cluttered with crap, so full of refuse. Perhaps I am just being snobbish about the aesthetics of many of the Spaces. But there is just something about it that seems "off" to me.

Adamness

on Mar 18, 2006

When I'm surfing around, I ignore all the myspace and blogs and whatnot. I find it all pretty annoying. But when people bring their online world into reality, that just creeps me out. People talk about myspace like it's a real place. They 'meet' people and have ten billion 'friends.'

People have started to use internet shorthand in verbal communication. Can you imagine someone making a lame joke and adding 'Oh, J-K.' Needless to say, they got a swift kick in the throat.

ExodusCrow

on Mar 18, 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F78ejbPVto&search=myspace
All you really need to watch is the first 3 minutes. That is what myspace is all about.

GopherTee

on Mar 18, 2006

Just an idea that you may want to consider, STOP GOING TO MYSPACE THEN!

bakerstreet

on Mar 18, 2006

Who goes? I'm sick of hearing all the horror stories about it on the news. If they hadn't allowed it to turn into the cesspool it is, there'd be no reason to talk about it at all.

BlueDev

on Mar 18, 2006

Just an idea that you may want to consider, STOP GOING TO MYSPACE THEN!

I don't go. In fact I hardly knew anything about the site at all until I stumbled across that Alexa article last week.

Jafo

on Mar 18, 2006

But what concerns me the most are supposedly intelligent, bright people who are jumping on the bandwagon. I have seen a couple of prog metal bands

Intelligent?

Gawd...give me Spinal Tap, anyday....

PoSmedley

on Mar 18, 2006

Sonny Szeto, 22, of New York, used the site to meet an 11-year-old girl, while Stephen Letavec, 39, of Pennsylvania used it to meet a 14-year-old girl, federal authorities said.
“People with nefarious intentions exploit that technology and target our children,” Kevin O’Connor, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, said at a news conference in New Haven, Connecticut.
Some 60 million users post photographs and personal information about themselves on the social-networking site owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe declined to comment on the arrests, saying the company doesn’t discuss criminal investigations.
MySpace also uses software to identify minors, flagging profiles with terms likely to be used by children under age 14. Some 200,000 profiles have been deleted from the site on suspicion that users had lied about their age.
Still, there’s no fool-proof way for MySpace or any other Internet site to verify the age of all users, DeWolfe said in an interview.
In a bid to fight abuse, the company posts warnings about the potential for its members to become crime victims. “We think that education is the most important piece,” he said.
MySpace not blamed
O’Connor said the blame doesn’t lie with MySpace. “This really is about the predators,” the U.S. attorney said in an interview. “When it comes to blame you can only point the finger at the defendants.”

I just found out my niece has a site on there. She is 13. She posts herself as 21. Her 'buddy's' all post as over 18 and such and they are 13 and 14. They use the 'my bitches' slang and 'my Ho'' and post the photo's, schools, dance schools etc.

It's just not right.

PoSmedley

on Mar 18, 2006

Sorry about the double post. These server error messages are driving me nutz

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