Comments on: MyAmbivalence

By: Jess

Jess — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:16:09 +0000

I’m a teen and I don’t understand Myspace! ^^ (Of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t have one. I just use it as an extention of email.)

By: Morphindel

Morphindel — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:36:39 +0000

to be honest i'm not keen on any of these sorts of sites and never have been. The only reason i ever use them is to keep up on old friends that i haven't spoken to for a while, maybe display some of my artwork, and write a few blogs of film reviews etc. The reason most people have awful (and from the link you provided, it would seem tasteless) layouts is because most people are in fact morons. My own reason is because i don't care enough about Myspace to care.

Having said that i still like to pick out songs for my main page, though i usually try and find something soft to respect people that, like you, do get annoyed by it. Oh, and i also added you to my friends list. ;)

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:59:51 +0000

Not loving MySpace is proof that you DO get it. Everytime I'm cohersed into visiting the site, I cringe with a deep sense of disappointment and occassional disbelief. I WISH my reaction was solely due to my disappointment in the technological failings of its users.

My favorite tagline is "MySpace: For adults who want to go back to high school."

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:29:01 +0000

I give up. Just click the link.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:28:19 +0000

Ok wait, maybe I am less useful. That post was supposed to say is useful for us old folks who like things to be pretty.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:26:42 +0000

I am not the same Tim as the one who wrote the comment above. But I can sympathise with his plight. Also I am more useful: is useful for us old folks who like things to be pretty.

By: prhead

prhead — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:29:41 +0000

Not every page on MySpace is as horrible as you all are describing. Are you designophiles just clicking on the profiles of random teenagers, clucking your tongues, and frantically tabbing over to eamesoffice.com to wash the filth out of your eyes?

This whole comment thread is shaping up to be an exercise in proclaiming y'all's superiority over, and greater mental age than, your fellow folk.

There are fascinating people all over MySpace, and they are vastly outnumbered by the clueless jackasses, just like real life.

All I'm saying is, don't judge a tool by its most incompetent users.

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:15:17 +0000

Don’t feel too bad, I’m 25 years old (which I think would still be considered young) and I’m not a fan of MySpace either. I find it to be overflowing with a bunch of crap and a lot of people with nothing to say. No offense to the deep MySpacers.

By: Godsbane

Godsbane — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:03:15 +0000

Anonymous. Please, please breed. The future needs your genes.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:32:03 +0000

Sadly, I joined msypace when I learned there was an entire club devoted to bashing my then 12 year-old son. The club has been disbanded and the school at least talked to several of the kids.

Tragically, a girl I know, whose mother is an actress, was kidnapped by a man she met through myspace. It sounds surreal but it’s not. The girl, Tina Colon is a sweet, naive girl. The guy whose name is most likely Mike Downing, looks scary as shit. Truly, truly scary. His account on myspace was opened with a fake business address (which the police found out, not myspace) and all sorts of other fake stuff.

I’ll post the link to Tina’s listing on a Missing Person’s page. I don’t know how to paste the picture to Mike Downing, but I’ll try to link to a friend’s myspace blog where he posted the picture and info about Tina’s kidnapping. The scary thing is, Tina probably thought they were in love and running away together. They’d even met twice before in person, even though her mother told her not to. But when Mike came to take her, he had her erase her cell phone contacts and leave the phone at home AND had her erase their computer exchanges. That doesn’t sound like someone with good intentions to me.

Kristina (Tina) Colon http://nvfc.us/content/view/2164/70/

Mike Downing http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=20845305&blogID=109593929&MyToken=972a1016-5c7d-458e-8313-975e768d052f

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:01:14 +0000

I'm 18 and I hate MySpace. I think that officially places me as the youngest hater so far in the comments. I have another friend, same age, studying design, and he hates it too. He and I both have a thing for design - we like things to look good as possible, and we'll waste as much time as we can making things look unnecessarily good. But we can't do it with MySpace. You CAN'T make it look good. That and the god-awful overplayed Simple Plan song jumping through your headphones when you're already listening to Zeppelin really isn't tasty.

I think this may be all part of that 'old people just don't get us' thing. I'm prematurely old, methinks. I know maybe 5 people who listen to music from before 1996, and they're probably the same people who know movies from before 1996, know what they want to do as a career and can hold conversations with people older than 22. But if this is the youth of today, I'm happy to be an old codger.

Old people don't need to 'get you' to know thet you're a pretentious, ignorant brat.

This could be why I wasn't incredibly popular at school.