Am I alone in disliking MySpace??

I don't get MySpace at all. AT ALL.

I'd heard of it but never looked at it until a young woman I work with was looking at it one day and started trying to explain it to me. She'd cruise around these sites and add herself as a friend to these people.

Today I saw an ad for a "MySpace Friend Adder" that was some kind of automated doodad that added people as your "friends".

What the hell?

I thought MySpace was for teens.

I signed up with it, and found out that it IS for teens.

spam, spam and more spam.
Friend requests flood my email daily.
I was HOPING for a blog-style website of my own
yet I get propositions all the time.

oh well..

Im sure, for teens / early 20's people that place is perfect.

not for me.

Bleeech. It's funny, my boyfriend told me just the other day that I should start a thread here about how annoying I find myspace to be.

All that ridiculous text message style babbling, gawd! I spent a while looking around on there one day and felt like I'd had a lobotomy just from reading that nonsense. There were about fifty threads talking about things like whether girls who aren't skinny are hot, and then response threads from the skinny girls telling the chubby girls to shut up and diet already, and ones asking questions like do you make out on the first date or not, and other similar types of rot.

And no end of LOL LOL LOLing.

I work with someone who is 33 and she uses it. She's met a lot of guys through the website.

Some of you have pointed out that it's a place for teens-- let me tell you, I think you are correct. This woman behaves like a teen, if it were up to her she's be giving me a blow-by-blow (pardon the expression) of every IM, every phone call, every date she's gone on. When I see her coming toward my desk I usually look incredibly focused on an invented problem just so she'll take her latest drama to someone else.

There's a parody of the myspace experience going on, in the Boondocks comic strip. Here's the real live page of one of the characters: http://www.myspace.com/robertjebfreeman

Mr bitches..

I have myspace, I have had it for a year. I have customized my myspace, I have changed it numerous times.

At the same time, all my friends have it. So I never really bore of it, and it saves me money on my phone bill. Also I have found people on there that I haven't spoken to in years. Everything on there is pretty self explanatory.

But I have noticed this follwing week I am starting to get junk mail, which I never got before. I know if you tell Tom, the man who runs the site (by emailing him, you email customer service, not nessecarily him directly) and explaining the problem to him. Usually you get a response and the problem is corrected.

I love it. It is addicting. It has its ups and downs like any other site. It has privacy options that are great. I just love it!

I have mySpace, purely for photos. I only started it when the gallery went away, and people were bugging me for my holiday photos. I haven't customised it, I haven't recieved any spam emails from it, haven't posted or received any messages on it. I've only used it so I can share photos with internet friends.

I found out today that they plugged the loophole that one had to jump through to put an IP tracker on their page. So now, those who have suffered from internet psycho stalker's can't even protect their pages. Why would the admin even care about that?

I prefer livejournal or xanga. Much better.

Last week two teenagers were killed in an automobile accident after a night of partying. The car hit a tree and the engine of the car travelled 60 feet from the point of impact.

The kids had attended three alcoholic parties that night. Photographs of at least one of those parties were posted on MySpace before the accident.

They are using MySpace for all sorts of things now, I read that college admissions and employers are searching for applicants profiles, and like Noddy said, people are using it to piece together pieces of incidents and even crimes. I read an article yesterday that 2 girls were arrested for posting pictures of themselves nude on their sites.

I think some kids just don't grasp the potential dangers of putting so much of your own information out there - and predators ARE on those sites! You need to arm your kids with sites like cybertipline.org that lets them make reports about any predators that approach them, and also have ongoing conversations with them as this technology develops. Parents staying on top of the trends is the best way to prevent something from happening.

MySpace Movie

Pretty funny.

A lot of bands have myspace pages instead of their own fullblown domains.

One of my girlfriends is obsessed with myspace.

I think it's okay.

Ketchup lady - why were girls actually arrested for posting nude photos? Isn't that the website's responsibility? I think its funny that colleges and employers are looking that stuff up. HA HA!

That MySpaceMovie was hillarious!!!

Well the girls under 18 were technically posting child porn, and I know overall it's against the sties rules.... I agree, the college admissions people are probably getting an eyeful! Here was an article with some links to safety resources and other online safety articles for any parents out there:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/19/more_resources_to_help_parents_protect_children_from_online_predators/

I've seen the MySpace movie, this is even better - it's a clip from the Daily Show on social networking:
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002791.html

This person who is stalking me is so desperate to learn information about me that he/she tracked my IP and was actually conversing with my minor teenage grandson on Yahoo messenger. He/she sent him a link to MySpace, and continued to converse with him there. I had my grandson toss out some items of interest just to see if this stalker would later mention them to me. HE DID. No more MySpace here. Some of the conversations, which I monitored, went on for a couple of hours. I believe this person to be a pedophile who was GROOMING my grandson. I have information about this malicious person, and he is trying to find something negative about me to keep me from telling it, I suppose. Too late, because it's already been told to law enforcement, and more information is coming in daily.

Good for you, joluma. Pedophiles need to be caught... and locked away!

i think its gay cos u cant lie about urself cos your freinds all know u anyway