A Scientific Approach to Myspace’s Failure
April 23rd, 2006 12:45 am
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Using the power of Google searches, I hope to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity. I’m not debating whether Myspace offers a good system or service, I’m only lamenting the place it has become thanks to its user base. There are good and bad uses for social networking websites. Most are useless and waste more time without contributing to the social good. Myspace is the worst. Before TV, people thought it would be an incredible tool for education and it would be used for benevolent purposes. It turned out that what people wanted to watch was crap, so the people who made TV made crap. This is what’s happening to MySpace. It’s a great tool at first glance, but the desire to produce crap by those in control of the content (the users) overwhelms the networking aspect almost 5 to 1. A few things to note before we begin:
- These searches were conducted with Google using [site:myspace.com] input before each search. The words you see are exactly what I put into Google on April 7th, 2006. Though these numbers may seem large at times, keep in mind that of the whole body of profiles (72,200,0001) they represent a small percentage of total people.
- Yes, MySpace is a great place for bands. I’ll get to that.
- Some people are capable of making good profiles, pages and blog posts. But I wish there were more. See the conclusion.
- This is not science.
It all started when I wanted to find a reason why the core of my Internet-saturated being hates Myspace. For fun one day, I searched within Myspace’s profiles for the following phrases:
- 9620: “I’m going to kill myself”
- 72,000: “I’m rick James Bitch”
- 3,100,000: wierd
- Man! This is fun, thought I.
This got me started on a torturous hour of minimally scientific research to discover exactly why Myspace is for the most part a heaping pile of hot garbage. I started writing.
I must disclose that I am a recent member, but I can’t stand navigating beyond my own profile’s simplicity for fear of contracting an epileptic seizure. My delicate retinas cannot survive the persistant attacks from animated images created by eight year olds who probably blink every 10 nanoseconds. This intensive research was conducted on an aging laptop with a faded LCD screen from the safe distance of 10 feet with thick billowing smoke between me and the faint rectangular object in the distance.
I lumped my findings into digestible headings:
Spelling and Literacy: The Language Factor
MySpace has created a safe haven for a scary phenomenon. It fosters a snowballing language deterioration led by the youth. New dialects and minimalist communication conventions appear among friend groups. While I know there’s no ‘one American dialect’ and I can’t force my opinions on what communication is, I do know that the acceptance of minimalist text message-like language on the web is about five steps back from the middle ages.
Here’s a selection of actual profile names:
- Lookin Like A Star Bytch Wen U See Me Make A Wish [link]
- dats y yo moma suck my dick [link] (441 html errors on W3C html validator)
Words of deep visceral meaning:
- “wut up”: 2,310,000
- “alot” : 19,300,000
- “luv” : 25,100,000
- krazy: 704,000
- wierd: 3,180,000
- thier: 1,120,000
From a Profile [link] [static]
Your Best Physical Feature: ThE fAcT tHaT i LoOk LiKe A fRiCkIn TuRtLe!
Your Bedtime: NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Your Most Missed Memory: FiRsT iNtErGaLaCtIc BoNeR!
Pepsi or Coke: I dOnT dRiNk My OwN uRiNe AnYmOrE
MacDonalds or Burger King: I dOnT eAt ThE cRuStY bOoGeRs FrOm UnDeR My DeSk AnYmOrE
Single or Group Dates: CaN yOu Say MiNa-ShA-tWa?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: TeA iS fOr PuSsIes!
Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Cookie Cutter Phrases? Grade for Originality: D-
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Next on my checklist of Myspace Googledatabashing is old and overused pop cult phrases. I recognize that some things are funny and should be repeated. This very website is a testament to that universal fact. However, there are exceptions to this rule when it comes to the factor of time: when you beat a funny phrase into the street of language over many months, it dies and stagnates in the gutter, slowly passing from irritating to annoying. Soon its festering carcass flows to the ocean of dead phrases. It’s best to let these corpses lay.
I guess we’re getting a bit personal (and graphic) with this category, but perhaps some part of you agrees with me. Keep in mind that Google’s search results are generated on a monthly basis.
For the phrases: “is that your final answer” OR “kicked off the island” OR “rick james bitch” OR “I pity the fool” we get back 209,000. Imagine a baseball stadium full of people cackling to themselves self-assuredly after aiming one of these hideous catchphrases at the pitchers mound. If my calculations are correct, this would cause Crocodile Dundee’s cliched spirit to form from the mist of 209,000 gutteral abortions and ride an H bomb straight to the center of the earth, KILLING US ALL.
Filled With Goths? Sorta.
The established Goth population looks like roughly 20,805 from adding the ‘Goths’ and ‘Goth’ group together. The the more popular Goths Group has 12308 members while the less popular Goth Group has 8488 members; this equals about .023% of the population. Searches for “I am a goth” OR “I am goth” gave me only 677. Were so few ready to admit their pop social identity?
Probably due to musical references, occurences of the word “goth” was very high: 2,180,000, and results returned dropped to only 2,170,000 when I required that “goth music” be removed from the results. This means that only 10,000 were discussing the literal string “Goth music”. Anti Goth sentiments hit only 366.
I mention “The Goth Problem” not because I believe it to be a real “problem”, I just notice that Goths tend to screw up the internet by filling its limitless pages with poems describing how dark they are. Doesn’t the makeup smear when you cry? How do you sneak up on/strangle small animals with all those chains? But this is not the time nor place for such unanswerable questions. Moving on.
MySpace on Suicide Watch?
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Google returned 9620 results for “I’m going to kill myself” on Myspace alone. I know this is a common end of the day confession for those hard working teenage mothers of five and should not be taken that seriously, so I expanded the search to general discontent: “I hate my life” gets us 134,000 and the general string I want to kill returns 11.5 million!. “Razorblades”quickly gives me 47,300. I do not know a reason why that word should show up at all.
The War of Good and Evil
- “hate” : 28,900,000
- “love” : 68,300,000
- “I hate” : 19,800,000
- “I love” : 52,200,000
If break this down, we get 2.36 times more love than hate on Myspace. But for you Kwazy Conservative Cwistians out there, here’s the Myspace Unholiness Index (MUI):
- satan OR devil OR 666 -jesus [these results do not contain "jesus"]: 6,240,000
- “I read the bible” OR “I go to church” OR “Bless Jesus” OR “thank you jesus” OR “jesus saves” : 191,000
- which means: 32.6 times more Lucifer-related tomfoolery than Jesus speak.
As the greatest representation of America’s youth ever consolidated on one domain, Myspace can teach us a lot about the trends and beliefs of the youth. If someone were crazy enough to take these results seriously, then we might have what’s known among certain circles as a ‘godless swarm of satan spawn’ on our hands.
OMG I hate my parents! Elder Angst Central
Search: “I hate my mom” OR “I hate my mother” OR “I hate my parents” OR “I hate my dad” OR “I hate my father”
On the web: 275,000. | On Myspace.com: 46,100.- Myspace’s parent angst level (PAL) represents 16.7% of the Global Whole.
As a new outlet for parental angst; no, as THE outlet, I would recommend that the Family Research Council [link] start advertising for its many uber conservative programs on MySpace’s notorious $35,000 a day advertising leaderboard. I think a “Kill the Mom” animated banner with 9mm cursor-hijacking gun replete with sound effects would target a delicate and growing demographic.
Ads from the Seventh Circle of Hades
Appealing to the limited attention spans and a queer desire to accomplish simple tasks divorced from reality, Myspace’s assclown quality advertisements are a spectacle of immense consumer-targeted suffering. It goes without saying that this is just what works. ADvertisers must have tested thousands of ad campaigns on high traffic youth sites to find what works best. It’s a sad reality of the intelligence and judgement of Myspace’s user base that simple goal-oriented games involving tools of destruction and the oppression of the defenseless generated the most revenue. If you take the time to shoot the bunny, push the kid on the swing, or even outlift Arnie, you’d find that these websites often require time-limited commitment-based trial memberships with vile third party services and/or the volunteering of personal information. Here’s what I’m talking about:
(these ads have been shrunk and deanimated to fit on your screen and mind)
Here’s an example of some fine print:
For a ‘free ringtone site’ which offered 10 free tracks after which the user received a $9.99 bill (that’s almost too little to argue about), this fine text was appended: With
respect to ringtones, artist names are mentioned for the sole purpose of enabling the public to correctly identify the
track and in no way suggests that the ringtones were produced or performed by that artist. The songs are midi quality synthesized 8-bit pieces of crap that you tend to hear in movie theatres only during the good parts of movies.
BANDS. The Saving Grace
With 1.4 million bands hosted for free, MySpace has by nature of its massive youth saturation made itself a venerable resource for musicians. A heaping mound of steaming dung becomes a whole different animal if it also links people with artists in a democratic medium. Thankfully, many bands have a user-oriented sense of style when designing their page that does not afflict their fans with a rare form of mental stigmata due to illegible flashing abortions.
Conclusion
The numbers speak for themselves people. Communication and expression, use and abuse within this MySpace land is going someplace sour. On the positive side, we can thank Myspace for corralling the perps, pervs, pricks and princesses in one place. Can the swamp be saved? Can contemporary forms of community for the youth improve or will MySpace continue to degenerate into a
- vacuum of real social interaction
- friend-collecting obsession
- “profile stalking” time-wasting emporium
- playground for child molesters
- “look at me” assclownstorm
When we look back on Myspace 20 years from now, we’ll realize that it was the first succesful online community that indirectly allowed its users to sell themselves to each other. This endless self-advertisement is unstoppable and addictive. It’s simple and strangely satisfying. The question is when will the users realize this? The first website that promoted a presentation of self on the net was HotorNot.com. From this point, the floodgates of possibilities opened into unlimited prostitution for the purpose of collecting admirers (and satisfying certain needs). This reminds me that my mom always says MyFace when she means MySpace.
Though I can never fully perfect my comfortably unscientific argument (and don’t comment on this page without reading the previous words, which have been here the entire time), I hope this page will give people who can’t put their hatred of Myspace into words something to send to their friends. I understand that MySpace when used correctly is a fantastic tool for networking and finding like-minded people. I wish it was used for that by everyone. Let’s stop the madness.
It seems this is only the beginning chapter of MySpace’s life according to a New York Times article:
To expand ad sales, especially to big brands, Mr. Levinsohn plans to supplement the MySpace staff with a second sales force linked to the Fox TV sales department. He wants to expand one of Mr. DeWolfe’s advertising ideas — turning advertisers into members of the MySpace community, with their own profiles, like the teenagers’ — so that the young people who often spend hours each day on MySpace can become “friends” with movies, cellphone companies and even deodorants. Young people can link to the profiles set up for these goods and services, as they would to real friends, and these commercial “friends” can even send them messages — ads, really, but of a whole new kind.
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Every day there’s a news article where the victim or perpetrator is represented in the article by their stupid MySpace account picture and some tasteless quote from their profile. Do people think police don’t know about Myspace?
From here:
“If you don’t want it to be my business, then don’t post it,” Barrington, Ill., police officer James McNamee said.
McNamee, who specializes in Internet safety, said it’s his job to keep tabs on anybody posting possibly incriminating information on MySpace. It’s very easy to do so, he said.
He just goes to the “browse” section, types in criteria for age and gender, then searches for anything suspicious in a five-mile radius using Barrington’s ZIP code as a guide. MySpace doesn’t require entering a city or ZIP code in your profile, but McNamee has found that many users do.
“Everything pops up,” he said. “We’ll look at the pictures and the names. We’ll punch up on their site and see what we get.”
In response to the Comments:
April 26th, 6:50am (-8:00)
Serena says:
If all you can or want to say is summed up in handy little acronyms (omg, wtf?), there’s very little room for original thought. Because myspace is so easy to take at face-value, with nothing to question other than whether these pics are hott, users can get used to approaching their whole life that way - and I think that is a serious mistake.
Thanks Serena. I hadn’t thought of that. I guess the depletion of expression and words longer than three letters go hand in hand.
posted 10:43 on April 24th.
Things like this are common: (comment 77)
dereck Says:
April 24th, 2006 at 8:31 am eThere is nothing scientific about your “experiment”. Objectiveness not subjectiveness my misguided little friend. I do understand why you went this route, ADHD does have its drawbacks. For if you had gone a more objective route, your hits would not be so numerous, and you would sink back in to the wasted space to join your so labeled myspace. Everyone has to start somewhere and and from what I observe, you are still at the bottom.
I’m not a scientist and I don’t claim to be one in this article. It’s true that I started with a conclusion and found data to support it, but that doesn’t change the fact that millions of people agree with me and have this tickling sensation in their sense of things they can’t put into words. My Google searches undoubtably returned results that have nothing to do with my topic. It’s impossible to make a value judgement of the people on Myspace and how they use the service, so I relied heavily on rhetorical fabrication. If were to have lied to myself about how I feel about MySpace I think that would have been a greater crime. But as it turns out, I don’t like it all. Maybe I should write an unscientific article about it or somethin.
Wish there were more comments like this:
dirtyJ Says:
April 24th, 2006 at 6:30 am e
First off, I’ve already seen several comments that call into question the validity of this “scientific study.” I don’t suppose that any of you though, for one minute, that it might have been called scientific in a sarcastic tone? That maybe, just possibly, he was writing it as such to bring out the few people that would completely take it the wrong way. It’s a very well written article, with some interesting stats. As a minimalist myspace user, I’ve seen first hand what he is talkin about. Both sides of it. I have several friends in bands that have used myspace to get their music out there, and I have several friends that have the seizure inducing pages. To each their own. As for the language barrier, “alot” is not an acceptable “spelling” of “a lot.” One word does not equal two in this case. There isn’t a full blown internet language yet, just a shorthand version of bastardized english that people have come to understand over the years. It is by no means perfect, and I personally hope that it eventually fixes itself, otherwise, I forsee a future where the NY Times #1 bestseller is written in nothing more than 13375p34k, (leetspeak for those of you that aren’t fluent in it.)
DJ
Comment 22: Anthony Says:
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:41 am
you forgot to search for “emo” 
Emos are too easy to make fun of. Aren’t they a species of Tasmanian flightless bird?
How? Why? I want details.
- How I found total users: Google’s spiders are actually unable to cache every Myspace profile, but this is a very close approximation. It has returned results on the profiles that link to other profiles in any way. This means that people who have no friends listed and are also not even one way friends with anyone do not show up in the 88.1 million figure. This does not adjust for the fake profiles, and I’m sure it’s off by quite a bit. In Google, I typed [site:profile.myspace.com inurl:user.viewprofile]. This (I hope) returned all the active profiles. The official # of users in March of 2006: http://www.micropersuasion.com. My numbers include all of myspace, not only within the profile.myspace.com domain, but to more properly capture the entirety of MySpace’s user base I felt it necessary to include the forum posts and general excrement scattered on the beast.
- Advanced searches in Google require the Advanced Cheat Sheet.
- I didn’t use Myspace’s search because it is slow and doesn’t allow specific searches like Google. It does not give # of results returned. I also hate MySpace, so I limited my time on the actual domain to a bare minumum.
- Q. Why did you do this? A. Because it’s what I do.
- Q. How get you percentages of thingies? A. Division, dummy.
- Q. Are you serious? A. This was done absolutely tongue in cheek. The responses to this article have made me aware that there are people who hate MySpace with every molecule of their being.
- I have Greasemonkey and I want to get rid of Myspace custom profiles. Ok, right click here for the script. And here for ALL SCRIPTS relating to myspace.
- Ads. Don’t click on them because you can’t. If you must shoot the strawberry go here: Myspace.com.
- I hope alienated your cultural identity, social group, or dialect. Tell me how!
- “I commented but it didn’t show up!” I disabled comments because there are too many. If you have a thoughtful thing to say, I’ll approve it. Also, some people were doing tricksy script kiddie code that screwed up my website. Grow up.
- I installed a comments page plugin so comment away!
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April 23rd, 2006 at 8:42 am
uterly brilliant.
I think, time permiting, your next little experiment should be concerning facebook dot com. Facebook is the retarded college student equivalent of MySpace.
April 23rd, 2006 at 8:44 am
Fine work you’ve done here but the sad reality is that people will continue to use myspace until it becomes nothing but a giant shitball rolling arount the internet smearing everything that lay in its path. And people will contiue to use it because they think that if they don’t have an account, then they’re missing out on something.
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 am
I think the fact that Myspace is home to such a large proportion of idiots is a good thing. They’re all contained in one place, and aren’t causing damage anywhere else. Thankfully, nobody can force me to view any part of Myspace.
Now all we need to do is figure out a way to blow the whole package up…;-)
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:12 am
I couldn’t agree more — I had just been telling someone how Myspace was a massive pile of crap and I came across this.
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:13 am
The thing with myspace is the advertising potential to millions of kids around the world and guess what? it is free!
The problem i have with it is the fact that people are allowed to customise it with unreadable backgrounds malformed html and generally seem to think it is a good idea to go back in time in terms of web programming principles - marques etc… i dont want to go there!
A very amusing post though.
Facebook is so much better than myspace purely because it is simple, well designed and doesnt allow some BO moster who is 15 years old to mutilate the appearance of their profiles!
Also why with myspace do i get bombared with this ‘emo’ music when i explicitly said i dont want to hear anyones music?!
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:18 am
100% true =D
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:24 am
Excellent article. And speaking of facebook, a new trend I see with some of my friends is them migrating to facebook and saying its so much better. Myspace=Facebook=crap. I just dont see the enjoyment in looking at 100’s of terribly designed pages about people that I dont care about. Believe it or not, people made new friends before this stupid craze came about.
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:28 am
[...] Everyone has heard of MySpace. It’s been in the news alot lately, for various things. But is it all thats its cracked up to be? Using the power of Google searches, I hope to prove why Myspace.com is a failure of humanity. Im not debating whether Myspace offers a good system or service, Im only lamenting the place it has become thanks to its user base. There are good and bad uses for social networking websites. Most are useless and waste more time without contributing to the social good. Myspace is the worst. [...]
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:35 am
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April 23rd, 2006 at 9:57 am
Absolutely brilliant, funny yet so true…
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:58 am
[...] I saw this amazing link on Digg today and thought I needed to make my stance on MySpace heard. MySpace.com is quite honestly the most rebellious and anarchistic social networking site I have ever seen. Users can pretty much do whatever they want to their profile, post what they want, and befriend who they want. All in all, this sounds like a wonderful Utopia of social goodness and web based interaction. The problem with all this freedom is that at some point that animated GIF background, your flash based video and music player (which autostarts no doubt) will make your content illegible and probably annoy any potential viewer. On top of the usual suspects, there is illiteracy. The article actually graphs the millions of grammatical and spelling errors that MySpace is chock full of and I must say, it is very, very scary. [...]
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
[...] How MySpace Is Destroying Language After my previous posts on language where several commenters pointed out that language is an evolving thing and that I don’t get it and I retored that it’s my blog and I’ll be a curmudgeon if I want to (Ed Note: not exactly an intellectual conversation), digg.com linked to an unscientific analysis of how MySpace is a failure of humanity. My favorite part: MySpace has created a safe haven for a scary phenomenon. It fosters a snowballing language deterioration led by the youth. New dialects and minimalist communication conventions appear among friend groups. While I know theres no one American dialect and I cant force my opinions on what communication is, I do know that the development of minimalist text message-like language on the web is about five steps back from the middle ages. A man after my own heart. Published Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:56 AM by johnmont Filed Under: Amusement [...]
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:13 am
I believe your goth results were so low because “goth” has spread into an array of groups. I wouldn’t be surprised if you found a larger group of “emo” than goth, although I would put these groups and subsets into a lump sum of–for lack of a better word, sadness.
Great article. I completely agree with you.
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April 23rd, 2006 at 10:36 am
Wow…just….just wow.
Also, thank you for giving me excellent backing to my explanations of why myspace sucks.
I thnk your next little google-experiemnt-thing should involve vampirefreaks.com. It’s worse than myspace, but not by much.
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April 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 am
I would love to shake your hand. Bravo. =D
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:41 am
you for got to search for “emo”
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:54 am
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April 23rd, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Great analysis. Thanks for a hilarious and eye-opening read.
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April 23rd, 2006 at 12:36 pm
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April 23rd, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Don’t kill my server.
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:39 pm
We’ve had this in Sweden for well over 7 years, it’s called lunarstorm(.se) and consists of what we call fjortisar (pun on the word fourteen (fjorton)) and elderly men trying to lure them into the sack.
Myspace is just the US introduction to teens having a place online where they can exchange webcam stripteases for financial favours, as paying the nude teen’s phone bill or providing him/her with the poison of their choice.
It’s decadence, you gotta luv it.
April 23rd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Priceless.
April 23rd, 2006 at 4:34 pm
I can’t wait til some idiot leaves a comment that says:
“MySpAcE iS a GoOd SiTe. YoU’rE jUsT sOmE lOsEr WiTh No LiFe.”
Someone probably already left a comment like that, though.
April 23rd, 2006 at 4:55 pm
okay, so it is prety bad, lots of ugly profiles and silly kids. no doubt at all. however most of my friends haven’t discovered the joy of web2.0 and aren’t going to check me.tyepad.com everyday. they are all on myspace. so until i get them all clued into the wonderful world of rss, i’m staying on myspace. funny article tho’
April 23rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Kinda hard to think of this as a reputible article when your domain name is moneydick.com, isn’t it?
April 23rd, 2006 at 5:16 pm
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April 23rd, 2006 at 6:20 pm
I think this little experiment was awesome! I have to admitt though that I do have a myspace account, but I only use it to keep in touch with cousins that live very far away. And about the “goth” thing, I bet there’s a lot more out there, but some of us who you’d consider “goth” don’t like to label ourselves, kinda defeats the purpose of being different. And to say something in response to all the Facebook comments, I think facebook is a good website, its only open to those people who attend college, its simple, and if you need to find someone in your class for something its easy to do.
But anyways, Kudos, good job on this experiment!
April 23rd, 2006 at 8:21 pm
My kids have used various free web hosts and now they sometimes use myspace, as well as various other sites. My son is in a band, which as you pointed out has worked out well for them. I suspect all of these gathering spots are basically transient and long-term meaningless. Many of their users will eventually graduate to more articulate sites and communication methods. Think of myspace and similar popular, free web spaces as kindergarten for future content creators. It would be great if kids had more literacy, but they don’t. Would you critique the notes kids send to each other in class as a measure of their future success in society?
April 23rd, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Yes, please do another one of these on facebook. I’ve been saying for years that it’s a useless cesspool of social disorders - I think you could well prove it.
April 23rd, 2006 at 8:47 pm
You are my hero. I could never find the time to create such a good a valuable representation of my extreme hatred for myspace. I owe you one…or two. I’ll be posting this everywhere and wearing it in my signature for years to come. (Keep it up)
April 23rd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
I don’t know if I could do one for facebook.com because it’s so utilitarian. Hell, it probably validates (w3c.org) It’s evil in many of the same ways, but I would just be repeating myself. It’s also harder to get any solid facts about because of its closed nature. Myspace is massive and floppy like an elephant with elephantitus. But it’s easier to take it’s blood pressure. I’m going to stop writing now.
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 pm
I agree. The service itself does have useful, acceptable purposes. But It is so frequently misused. And the user base is what bugs me. Emos and people who think they’re “l33t” (not 1337) programmers, just because they fucking italisized some shit.
April 23rd, 2006 at 10:50 pm
I very much enjoyed your article on this topic. It does make me wish I had not got into the facebook craze. I am lucky enough to never have got onto the myspace yet, and after this i definately will not. I wich there were restrictions to what could be done, that is why I like facebook somewhat. I am able to find someone in a class the day before an exam and find out what I need to know. Helps me out as a slacker. I know thats not good, but what can you do huh. My girlfriend has even discontinued herself from using the facebook for almost all of the reasons you have posted about myspace… its funny that she told me all this about 3 days before I read this article. Well thank you very much for verbalizing the disgust of myspace. It has finally been done, and in quite the fashion.
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 pm
You have no idea how long I have waited (too lazy to attempt this myself) for a post of any sort relating to MySpace and who/what really occupies the site. I looked at the site once. Note the word once. That was enough for me. Great information!
April 23rd, 2006 at 11:48 pm
I think the good thing about Mypace is the way that it gives people that might not otherwise be able to communicate a relatively safe way to do so. For example One of our Brave Troops in a forieghn land communicating with their spouses or other loved ones.
The bad thing about Myspace besides the ones that are listed in This essay. The sight contributes to a Huge ammount of Self Absorbtion that I see many people are afflicted with on Myspace. The site encourages the thought by many that participate in the site that the only person in the world is them and that the earth revolves around only them.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:03 am
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April 24th, 2006 at 12:04 am
First of all, I enjoyed the whole presentation. The various facts and stats were very interesting. However, I do have a few opinions for all the “myspace bashers” out there. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. Why waste your time bitching about something that other people do?
Also, i understand a lot of people can’t spell. The whole point of myspace is to communicate with others. So what if the words are spelled wrong. It doesn’t really matter how people type or phrase things, as long as you understand. That is the whole point, right? As for the “goth” people. WHO CARES. That part of the article was just plain ignorant. There are plenty other social groups to pick from, why you picked goths, I have no idea.
The internet is not the center of the universe. All you people that excessively complain and worry about myspace, make it seem that it has more of an impact on this planet that it really does. GIVE IT A REST! Yes, I have an account. Yes, I log on everyday. I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone says about it. I will expect negative and cheap responses to this comment, but they will only prove my point. So long and goodnight.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:23 am
Rick. The Internet Loves you. If you read my article more closely, you’d notice that I’m not telling people to stop using myspace. I want it to be used for good. I also believe that communication within the site is centered around a very sick sense of self and self advertisement. If the misspelled words had less to do with ‘how fiyne ur ass is’ I wouldn’t have done this.
Funny you mention the goth bit. Most people request that I make fun of Emo kids more. I’m glad you’re a nice person.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:06 am
I really planned on doing a scientific inquiry into the reproductive strategies of humans using myspace. I am really glad that you noticed the self advertisement aspect of the myspace community. People advertise images of themselves in sexual context as a means to meet potential reproductive mates, or something on that note. Anyhow, good job. I personally am a user of myspace, but I use it to keep in contact with personal friends who I have a hard time contacting via telephone.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:00 am
Excellent post, moneydick! Extremely amusing, very true, and wonderfully penned! If the majority of our youths understood English as a first language, perhaps Myspace would be a much better site. But alas, it seems as though America’s youth is forever descending into a world where written communication skills are optional.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:13 am
I have a myspace account that I use for my “band”…I’m a solo artist, literally, and it seemed like a good way to get my music out, and to advertise my site. The only non-musical friends on my list are people that I know from other places on the web. I posted about the “Spam Central” nature of the place on one of my message boards, and I may very well link to this in the blog I maintain (sometimes) on my site.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:24 am
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April 24th, 2006 at 3:28 am
There is nothing “scientific” here. These are a bunch of searches and opinions of the site, and the idea that these indicate that Myspace has somehow “failed” is rediculous.
You say “These highly scientific searches were conducted with Google using…” Searches are done by using a program to analyze a database and return results. Nothing “scientific” occurs during a search. I think you said that just to add pseudointellectual jargon to act as if you did some sort of study, and hide the fact that this is actually just a long flame post that could be summarized as the cliche “emo sucks.”
To do a scientific study, you must first have a hypothesis, and then find a way to test it. The test should include a control group as well as an experimental group, and the test should show a difference between the groups that supports the hypothesis. You never had a hypothesis. You had an opinion, “Myspace failed.” You did nothing to test this opinion, and in fact nothing here has anything to do with that opinion. For example: You never said what a “failure” of Myspace actually is, and nothing here seems to indicate that myspace actually failed.
You presented evidence supports the claim that words like “I’m going to kill myself” can be found in many places on Myspace, which may support the claim that many people on myspace want to kill themselves, but it does not come close to proving it. The people who used the phrase could not really want to kill themselves, could be joking, or could be quoting someone else. After all, this flame would get a be listed in a search for “I’m going to kill myself.” If even a small fraction of the 9620 listings were people who were actually going to kill themselves, it would be national news. That many people dying cannot go unnoticed.
You presented evidence that supports the claim that many misspelled words can be found at Myspace. You claim that this indicates that many people who use myspace are illiterate. This conclusion is so far fetched that I can only assume that in your gigantic flame you wanted to say that people on Myspace are illiterate to go along with your “emo sucks” idea, and that this was the only way you could think of to do it. “Alot” is an acceptable way to spell “a lot,” so that is not even a misspelling. “Luv” and “wut up” are accepted internet speak. “Krazy” is internet speak, meant to add emphasis to “crazy.” “Wierd” and “thier” are the only misspellings you listed, but just because someone does not type in a word correctly does not mean that they don’t know how to spell it, and it definitely doesn’t mean that they are illiterate. In fact, I think it is evidence that they are actually literate. “Weird” and “Their” are prety complicated words, learned much after simpler words such as “Cat” and “Run.” That someone knows to use “Their” instead of “There” is evidence that they have learned advanced English syntax. The idea that an internet site that has millions of users who post millions of messages every day is full of people who are illiterate is absolutely rediculous. Just going to the first “illiterate” blog you list, “Lookin Like A Star…” shows someone who is clearly not only literate but effective at communicating well. He introduces himself as “Im 6′4 black,white,and rican and as you can see ya boi v is sexy so I dont really need to tell you bout my looks. …” in a very clear, well written sentence, which may not be acceptable for an essay(using the internet speak abbreviation “bout” for “about”) but is definitely more than acceptable for an internet introduction.
The rest of your “scientific evidence” could be dealt with the same way, but I am tired of typing, so I will deal with the rest of your sections in summary:
Goths: how does finding the word “goth” mean that an article is by someone who is a goth? This flame contains the word “goth.” What’s wrong with someone who calls themself or looks goth? How does that indicate some sort of “failure?”
Originality: Your search for cliches only returned a couple hundred thousand out of 50 million profiles, which each contain many pages. I bet there are more people than that who use cliches on myspace. As long as cliches are used correctly, or not used too often, they are perfectly acceptable. How does this indicate some sort of “failure?”
Good and Evil: This section is so senseless I don’t even know what to say about it.
Parent Hating: This is part of our culture, that many children dislike their parents. Because Myspace is a place where they express themselves, they express how they feel about their parents. Not saying how they feel would be suppression, something that can be unhealthy. I would call this evidence for the SUCCESS of Myspace.
Ads: How are the ads on Myspace different from the ones on the rest of the internet? The ads you have shown actually look prety small and not very annoying compared to a lot of gigantic flashing ads that cover the screen that I’ve seen. This has nothing to do with “failure” of anything.
Perverts: This is already well known, and you have provided nothing to further the fight against perverts finding children to rape online. This is also something that is not just true of Myspace, but the rest of the internet. The nature of myspace has just made it a target for perverts.
Several comments to your flame:
“uterly brilliant.”
“Fine work youve done here”
“Excellent article.”
“Absolutely brilliant”
“You are my hero.”
“I agree”
“Great information!”
At least one person said:
“HHHmmmĶ I didnt know google searches where highly scientific”
but then went on to say:
“Nice work!!!”
I find this very disturbing, as it seems to indicate that at least the first few people read and cared to comment on your flame thought it really meant something, and it appears that this is how it has spread around the internet.
I actually don’t like Myspace. I think the page template that they have does not allow someone to create much more than an annoying, blinking, sounding, unlegible page with a scroll bar that goes off in all directions and a background image that does not allow you to read anything.
Your “article” which is actually an enormus flame, was not done with any intention of doing a study, and has nothing to do with science. If someone actually believes the utterly meaningless things presented in this flame, it is extremely misleading.
However, I think this flame is very well suited for an uncyclopedia.com article. I think that if you copied it word for word, and especially if you included the pictures(with permission of the author of corse, don’t plagiarize) it would be a very good candidate for a featured article.
CatastrophicToad@gmail.com
April 24th, 2006 at 3:44 am
I don’t like the idea of Armerican police knowing anything about me, especially since I live on the other side of the world, that’s why nothing on my blog has my name or address on it, even the hotmail account I use can’t be traced to me. Ok I have photos, but so far it’s hard to scan in one photo and return similar ones. I don’t know how people are so dumb as to say stuff that if it wasn’t published then probably wouldn’t cause so many problems.
Anyway just reading up and Seventh Squire wrote “If the majority of our youths understood English as a first language, perhaps Myspace would be a much better site. But alas, it seems as though Americas youth is forever descending into a world where written communication skills are optional” I know you probably didn’t mean it like this, but dude, America ain’t the only country on the planet, and you’re mostly decended, pretty recently too, from people who’s first language wasn’t English, and English itself is a mish-mash of other languages. Languages evolve too.
April 24th, 2006 at 4:20 am
The thing about MySpace for me is that it’s a great way to keep in touch with all my friends. We’re so spread apart now, I mean, I have friends in Texas, Georgia, England, California, and a million other places. So its nice to have one place where I can go online to keep up with (almost) everyone. I’m not emo and I don’t use MySpace to meet people. For me it’s all about continuing existing friendships and for that purpose, it suits me quite nicely. It bothers me that people think they have to be misunderstood or suicidal to be cool. But its nothing I can change. I hate that people make generalizations about all MySpace users. Its just like any other generalization. Not everyone in a group is exactly the same. It doesnt work that way.
April 24th, 2006 at 4:41 am
I think that if you were to do another of these deals, like on say, facebook, you should collaborate with a myspace hating company. That would make it so that so many people couldn’t complain about it being such an “unscientific” study.
April 24th, 2006 at 4:44 am
if you dont like the clientel that choose to make myspace home, then dont go there anymore! How can this bother you so much? I cant believe you have the time to do this research. Get a job man.
April 24th, 2006 at 5:32 am
when will you do a research about Friendster?
April 24th, 2006 at 5:35 am
Seriously, you have made my day. I thouht i was the only person on earth who saw this. Every time i go to my girlfriends house her and all her roomates are on that pointless site. People spend so much time on it, instead of going outside and catching some sun. I dont understand why it is so important to them. They spend hours looking at other people’s pictures and “songs”. Honestly, i feel it is kind of ridiculous and pathetic. I hope this is just one of those trends, and that soon enough it dies down and just becomes a thing of the past.
April 24th, 2006 at 5:49 am
Evolution has always be a part of nature. Sadly, evolution has taken on a digital format. People’s online existences are as vacuous and unispired as their real lives. Granted, it is steaming pool of cow shit, but this only reflects the general population of humans anyway. In other words, it is no surpise. For something a little disturbing only because of how so very real it is (drumroll please) mydeathspace! Yes, we can now visit the pages of people whom have expired. The part that is confusing (but, again, no surprising) is that people leave comments for dead people - like it is a virtual graveyard andf you’re laying roses (a comment) on their grave (page). Sometimes, people even shit on the deceased. Now that’s American.
http://www.mydeathspace.com/deaths.aspx
April 24th, 2006 at 5:59 am
I agree with Jamie. I use myspace to stay in touch with friends. Long distance phone calls are not free, and AIM is text only. Because of it, I have been reunited with old friends. I can also stay in touch with people that do not live near me. I can also stay updated with pictures.
As for the article, it was great and had many valid points. However, myspace is not pointless (and pointless is one word, Stacy) to me for the reasons above. Yes, there is a high percentage of stupid, ignorant profiles that make you wonder what the world is coming to. But for so many people it provides a link to stay in touch. Like many things in the world, there are goods and bads. Don’t make it seem all bad.
Stacy, when you hunt down your old boyfriends you don’t “stock” them. You stalk them.
April 24th, 2006 at 6:30 am
First off, I’ve already seen several comments that call into question the validity of this “scientific study.” I don’t suppose that any of you though, for one minute, that it might have been called scientific in a sarcastic tone? That maybe, just possibly, he was writing it as such to bring out the few people that would completely take it the wrong way. It’s a very well written article, with some interesting stats. As a minimalist myspace user, I’ve seen first hand what he is talkin about. Both sides of it. I have several friends in bands that have used myspace to get their music out there, and I have several friends that have the seizure inducing pages. To each their own. As for the language barrier, “alot” is not an acceptable “spelling” of “a lot.” One word does not equal two in this case. There isn’t a full blown internet language yet, just a shorthand version of bastardized english that people have come to understand over the years. It is by no means perfect, and I personally hope that it eventually fixes itself, otherwise, I forsee a future where the NY Times #1 bestseller is written in nothing more than 13375p34k, (leetspeak for those of you that aren’t fluent in it.)
DJ
April 24th, 2006 at 6:40 am
i luv da space yo! wurd 2 ya motha! fo sheezy off da skeezy! yallz just dun no about diz mayn! wez kewla den joo! yallz wak! myspizase fo life! gunit! wurd mayn joo best recignise!!!! im cool cuz i use da space and i get all mah hose der! im da kewlest person ever!
April 24th, 2006 at 6:59 am
I suggest that people start typing in “drawls”.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:01 am
Good work.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:09 am
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April 24th, 2006 at 7:16 am
The Facebook = MySpace argument is a very valid one when concerning the lack of physical social interaction. Yes there are hundreds of thousands of people you don’t know on there, but most people who have an account aren’t looking to find and make friends of people they don’t know. Facebook is for college friends to keep in touch after they part from each other. Personally, I have been to four different schools throughout my college career, and find Facebook very helpful in contacting and catching up with old friends. Yes I know that e-mail, and a simple phone call or face-to-face visit can do the same, but to learn about the daily goings on of a friend just by the click of a button is a lot more simple than driving 400 miles.
As for Myspace, I will never make a profile or even enter the domain. I feel as if the sheer entrance of my mind into the site will cause permanent blindness and mental retardation. MySpace is the cause of bushy hair and popped collars on CHILDREN ages 7-18, as well as their insubordinate attitudes toward authority, elders and pretty much people who are bigger than they who could kick the ever-loving shit out of them.
It’s an entire generation of little cesspool spawned Satan’s running around giving me smart-ass remarks about how cool their “style” is, and how uncool I am for not taking part in it. Little do they know, I am immune to their little plan of world domination, and will react accordingly.
April 24th, 2006 at 7:20 am
MySpAcE iS a GoOd SiTe. YoUrE jUsT sOmE lOsEr WiTh No LiFe
April 24th, 2006 at 7:30 am
Wow… and to think you could have actually done something that would help people with your time, and your love for searching for things on Google. Very well written, but, I mean really, what was the point of that entire article? So what if myspace is a cesspool of garbage on the internet. The internet is 10% actual information, what the other 90% is porno, and other vulgar material. I guess my point is, why not do research on something that actually is important?
April 24th, 2006 at 7:54 am
I do have a myspace and I agree with everyone whne they say it is a waste of time!! My dad always tells me he doesn’t want to catch me on it, but what he doesn’t realize… it’s a great place to meet a lot of cool people. When people use words such as “luv” “kuz” and others, they aren’t illiterate, they just look for an easy way out. What this government has taught us!!!! SO before you star bashing Myspace and other sites such as that, take a look at why we have the problems we have!!!
April 24th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Great article and observations. It’s called, “dumbing of America”.
It’s sad how bad children, or better yet, the children of our nation can’t read or spell correctly.
and I’m talking about 40 year olds!!!!
April 24th, 2006 at 8:01 am
I have to congratulate you for this great article- it made my day. Finally i have ‘proof’ to back up my arguement that myspace is not as great as most people think it is. The only thing i didn’t like was when you searched for ‘goth’ on myspace. You should have searched for emo which would have got alot more results. I am what some people consider ‘goth’ (i.e the clothes, music etc)and i hate myspace, and many *cough* chavs go on myspace as well. I’m kind of going off the subject here because i really like this ‘experiment’ and hope you do alot more. Good work!
April 24th, 2006 at 8:10 am
I’m Rick James Bitch
April 24th, 2006 at 8:30 am
I’m professional, college educated and married. I mainly use MySpace to keep in touch with my “real” friends and family, and to post my own art or current info about my life. I also love “discovering” new bands and artists on MySpace and “people watching”.
It’s like having 500 channels on tv… you learn to just ignore the stupid crap.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:31 am
Pure comical genius, too bad the audience for the most part failed their IQ tests. I applaud your “scientific research” and thank you for making me laugh. By reading half the comments alone, I notice that most people do not know how to take things with a grain of salt, it’s pretty sad. Anyway, keep up the good work and I concur, myspace does suck, even though I have an account.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:31 am
There is nothing scientific about your “experiment”. Objectiveness not subjectiveness my misguided little friend. I do understand why you went this route, ADHD does have its drawbacks. For if you had gone a more objective route, your hits would not be so numerous, and you would sink back in to the wasted space to join your so labeled myspace. Everyone has to start somewhere and and from what I observe, you are still at the bottom.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:44 am
You are my hero.
April 24th, 2006 at 8:50 am
holy fuck someone scientifically proved what Ive been thinking this whole time
April 24th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Bravo Bravo, i never usually bother to read long web pages like this but it sounded like a good read. I see people at college and all dinner they just update their myspace profile its seriously sad, i have never even attempted to make a profile i think it sucks too much
April 24th, 2006 at 8:55 am
yey! someone actually put into perspective how myspace is a piece of shit! woohoo!
strange how myspace is one big emo gathering eh?… oh well
*attempts to burn that Tom idiot*
April 24th, 2006 at 9:13 am
MySpace is an inverse black hole (a white head?), spewing forth all the universe’s waste with no end in sight. And Rupert Murdoch owns it. Go figure.
April 24th, 2006 at 9:24 am
I think this article does more than just point out the idiocy of myspace and its users, it highlights the general stupidity of the common population.
April 24th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Well i see some very interesting numbers here…
However I must disagree with you that “My space” sucks or is a waste of time…
I found the love of my life on there due to Adding my best friend as a “My space” friends…
I do concur that there are a lot of High school folks on there. and that explains about 85 % of your little artical.
But you can not disregaurd the smart people on there!
Thanks for the artical like i said nice numbers! You must have a lot of free time to do stuff like this!
Good luck to you!
P.S. Friends list if you keep it limited to people you accully know… My space is a great place!
April 24th, 2006 at 10:34 am
my space is destroying the internet http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/myspace_trojan_horse_of_internet_censorship.htm
April 24th, 2006 at 10:56 am
Re: Why complain about myspace instead of just not using it?
The reason is that if you know a decent number of internet-savvy people, there’s pretty high odds that one of them will go around and try to convince you and every mutual friend to get on myspace.
And if you refuse, they persist until you stop talking to them.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Not true. I’ve never been convinced to join myspace but I have many friends on it. If someone wants to contact me, they use email. If they want to send me pictures, they use email or Flickr. There is no necessity of MySpace, though it can be used for good things like finding old friends.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:22 am
good call on the Two Gallants. great band.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:27 am
i think this would be better to do research on stereotypes and people - you dont know what an emo is and well i dont like people poking at goths without knowing the difference - i dont call myself goth though. but you need to do more work on stereotypes and people, before you once again repeat this steamy crap called an opinion :p you dont know what anyones like and you based it around people - i do use myspace, and yes, it is a whoring online mindless community you foregot the chain bullitens, but you probably dont see them since you havnt joined - you only get bullitens from on your friends list anyway, but the chain bullitens suck. and if you dont want to use the word emo use the word wannabe - because thats what half of them are.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:38 am
I found this brilliant and very entertaining, not to mention very true. I’m a Myspace user (and I have been since 2004), and I hate it when angsty teens say they hate their parents. Most of them are emo and get everything they own from guess who? Their parents! Also, a great majority of “goths” on Myspace are nothing more than misled youths that shop at Hot Topic (thus making them mall-goths).
Myspace does have its positive sides such as connecting to old friends and relatives (as well as keeping in touch with bands). However, it’s mostly the internet’s biggest steaming pile of fly-infested fecal matter.
April 24th, 2006 at 11:47 am
how could you say such things about such a wonderfull site? myspace is gods gift to man. i hate you, whoever it was that made this. what kind of person finds the facts and exposes them to the public?
much hate,
keaton
p.s. for all the idiots on myspace, that was sarcasm.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
wow get a life. stop wasting your time writing up some stupid web page about how you hate myspace? we get it you hate mayspace? GET OVER IT. your like 1 in 72 million.
… and you think the people on myspace don’t have lives?
April 24th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Thank you. I hate to say I’m on crapspace. But it keeps reminding me why I hate it. Yet I know to many people that that check crapspace more than E-mail. Either way I thank you for your brilliant argument.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
I am so very glad to have read this. It made my day. I do use Myspace and I think its a complete waste of time, the people on there are fake, and most of them are asshats. So I salute you and I will not post this as a bulletin. I will however take it to school and show all my friends. Because I think it is that great.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
You bastard! How dare you crap all over my only source for social interaction! What would I do if I couldn’t leave stupid, meaningless comments for all my “friends” (of which I have 2,648 - beat that loser!). I like abbreviate words because I am so damn busy, I couldn’t possibly spell out word right? wtf!? whatevs.
Wait, wait. What have I become? Ah, it all makes sense to me now….I’m a douche-bag.
Remember - http://www.mydeathspace.com - so hip, so sad, but entirely inevitable, just like a “social networking” site for people who have to fill every last second of their lives with chatter of some kind. It is all so vacuous and unending, a giant digital blackhole into which we willfully fling our emaciated bodies.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
It’s easy to make fun of myspace itself and ALL the people using it because there is a pourcentage of them that are stupid. With the many people on myspace, it’s like a sample of the real population. You’d be surprise to see that there are a lot of them that share a lot with you. Ads you can find them on every site as well as typing mistake, I know “luv” is not one of them, but all the other three are. The thing that supports my keyboard falls all the time with my keyboard, the most affected key by that is my space bar. Then every one can interchange 2 letters in a word while typing. It’s one thing you write and you never look at again. I think people who doesn’t want to use a service because every one trendy owns a myspace are more stupid than the people on myspace.
April 24th, 2006 at 12:47 pm
MySpace is trendy taking a wrong turn.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Additional anti-MySpace comment by a MySpace user.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Its called EMO not goth, and like half of them are emo. They are all stupid fags who want to kill themselves.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Congrats to the writer of this page. I have many friends who are obsessed with myspace. And to the people who say that writing up this page was a waste of time, I’m willing to bet it has taken only a quarter of the time that you have spent aimlessly on myspace, not only adding different pictures but searching different people’s profiles that you have never even met, and will probably never meet. And to add to that, most myspace users log on every day for at least half an hour, some don’t even log off, for fear of missing a bulletin telling you that you will die within five minutes if you don’t re-post it. All the author of this webpage did was prove a point he was interested in INSTEAD of going on to myspace all day waiting for someone to send you a comment stating some stupid inside joke that will make you look “cool” to all your friends that you know one more person than they do.
April 24th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
brilliant page, very insightful and well thought out, if not a little scary because of the sheer amount of work that must have gone into it.
i joined myspace a while ago, mainly because it seemed like something to do, so far i’ve had 27 emails from various freaks and geeks who wished to be my friend… i ignored them. have these people never heard of the outside world, and actual human contact? its like myspace except real. try it sometime please. just stop emailing me with lame names like stars and scars and sephiroth. i have enough friends!
p.s. WiLl It MaKe Me CoOl If I tYpe LiKe ThIs?
April 24th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
some guy, were you trying to make a point there? cos you kinda rambled… a lot.
you can tell any addicted myspace user by the distinct lack of a train of thought, or mind of their own
i WiSh My PaReNtS wErE dEaD, tHeN i CoUlD pAiNt EvErYtHiNg BlAcK aNd SlEeP iN a CoFfIn!
April 24th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Myspace will be better than any article this guy publishes.
Get over it you crybaby it’s only a website. Yahoo chat has sexual predators and people spend countless hours on it, AOL chat rooms also has sexual predators and people there also spend countless hours on that too. Anywhere you go people use dead slogans, I hear “Rick James Bitch!” almost everyday in public and on the internet. As for Ads, they’re everywhere targeting people of all age groups. If Myspace didn’t use Ads the website would go broke. On the topic of illiteracy on Myspace, “Alot” is a common mistake almost everybody seems to make without knowing it. As for some of the others, they were spelled like that on purpose just as a form of expression. You should base your research off of something a lot better than search results. I can search all day on google and find random bullshit on AntiChrist, Satan, EMO, Suicide, Goth, and Hate groups that is not associated with Myspace. It’s not just limited to Myspace. Now go find something else to cry about!
April 24th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Well, the cliche is exactly as it says..”opinions are like assholes…everyone has one.”
April 24th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
the reason “Razorblades” returned so many hits is because the band Story Of The Year has a song with that title.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
Wow you really went above and beyond to prove that Myspace sucks. You need to find a better use for your time. Perhaps you should look into creating your own myspace type page instead of bitching about the one that is allready there. Suck it.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
I used to have a myspace, til I decided it was stupid and stalkers looked at it.
April 24th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Nice work, you definately got MySpace pegged. Congrats. But I don’t know if having a bunch of the world’s dumbest on one site is such a bad idea. I think I like the retards. If it weren’t for them, who else could we make fun of? At least I know that, when I have a bad day, I can go to a site and find a vast majority of idiots that I can poke fun of
April 24th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
yo u cen keep on hatn n takn ma komments down but ima jus keep puttn bck izzon cuz yall juz haterz! myspizace is da shyt n if yall cent handel it den u cen juz go 2 hel lyke all da oter myspace hatas. i gots mad myspaces n ima keeps chkn em lyke erday n ima take allyall off my frenz list so juz keeps hatn!
April 24th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
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April 24th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I think this article is total BULL!… my space is a great way to meet and talk to people… I think this guy is a little jealous he didn’t come up with it himself.. I bet he was one of the losers uses it and he got mad cuz he got turned down one too many times.. I love and will support myspace until forever ends. For all of you myspace haters.. get a friggin’ life and quit bashing things you know nothing about.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
racist
April 24th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
I really like what you did. Now I think it would be interesting to do a similar sort of experiment on http://www.mypraize.com/ . it’s supposed to be a Christian alternative for Myspace, but it’s not exclusive to Christians. just thought it might be interesting.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Never mind I reread the article and I think you make some realy good points. I guess I should have read the whole thing before making my previous post. Ill probably take my myspace down and tell my friends to go join vampirefreaks.com which is way cooler. I still think you need to get a friggin life but thats what vampires.com is for. So I invite you, moneydick, and all you other losers to join vampirefreaks.com with me.
April 24th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Anyone who’s on Myspace and claims to be a Goth…uhm….isn’t one. Yeah. No. You don’t go on Myspac