Mar 29 2007
MySpace Rant
No offense to anyone who is on MySpace (especially those on MY friends list!), but most of the people on there are not the sharpest tools in the shed. My intro clearly states that I do not collect friends and I will not just randomly add people just because they asked. I checked my email earlier today and saw that I had 2 friends requests. One was from Adam (172640993 if it’s still up), who is a 22 year old Leo. The other one was from Jonathan (172639018), a 23 year old Capricorn. Now get this - both profiles were exactly the same, right down to the friends lists (which included Jenna Jameson). What kind of idiot does this person think I am? I also got a friends request from a local crap band. Just because I live in Las Vegas and clearly don’t have the same taste in music as you do, which anyone would know if they looked at my friends list, doesn’t mean that I want to add you so that I can have some God-awful music blaring from my home page.
MySpace has its purpose, I suppose, but I just don’t understand why any intelligent, internet-savvy person would want to use it. The only reason I’m on it is to keep in touch with my nephew, and he never emails me anymore (because he’s 13 and 13 year old boys don’t email their aunts).
3/30/07 7:09am update - I just checked my email and “Donald” (173334809) who is 21 and a Cancer, just tried to add me. I sent a message to MySpace to report the abuse, gave them all 3 user numbers, and told them to do something about the bots. We’ll see if anything happens (yeah, right).
Myspace…meh.
MySpace is full of bots right now. Whenever I get a request like that I deny it.
They’re fake. Spam. Nothing we can do about it, unless Tom and his people get their butt together, and fix it!
So, for now - just delete them. It sucks, I know!
I almost have a hard time imagining that so many people loathe MySpace. I forget that it’s only tolerable for me because I have the ads blocked and I run custom scripts that de-tackify (is that a word?) people’s profiles and hide messages from annoying people.
I much prefer my blog or livejournal account….I do have a Myspace, but only because it is a way to keep in touch with people who use ONLY myspace. It’s the blogger or livejournal of this generation, everyone’s got one, and I didn’t want to be left behind. It’s still a cesspool, though, and some of the ‘designs’ there are nothing short of horrible.
As for me, I had to go to comment moderation and shut off band friend requests because I got so sick of bands I don’t even know or like spamming me. I drew the line when several crap bands that I had already friended kept sending me friend requests. The stupids didn’t even bother seeing if someone already had them added before sending requests. And that is NOT someone interested in maintaining a good following with their fanbase.
Thanks for your sweet words about the house at my blog the other day. Maybe if I can ever afford to build, I can build a replica.