Myspace sucks
» 30 Jan 2006, 3:52pm in culture - 100 comments
I've decided that I officially hate the site myspace. I won't even link to them here, as I normally do to sites I name. This is why myspace sucks:
- It is butt ugly. Not just the official site pages, but all of the user pages Case in point. They are ass, and they follow no modern design standards such as XHTML and CSS. Table overkill.
- Seemingly all of the links that I click on, even internal links to pages within their own site, open in new windows. What a waste of system resources and desktop space.
- This was found in someone's comments section.
- Their founders are quite the sketchy bunch (see here, here), linked to spyware, spam, income tax evasion, prison, and poor personal hygiene.
- Even though I am not a member of myspace, when I view someone's profile, it tells me "ducky is in your extended network". No he's not!!
- You are forcibly subjected to everybody's terrible taste in music when you load their page.
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I did find a new site that is very similar BUT a lot cleaner, same concept with a few different twists, I'd say their overall concept and where this Co. intends to go might be something very interesting to watch, also very addictive I might say, I truly recommend www.FunZulu.com as a alternative to MySpace.com, I love the underdog, try it you might like it.
The horror... the horror.
How could you?
What a bunch of tossers. Apart from that there was always error pages galore, loads of adverts, annoying kids who new fuck all about fuck all and loads of bugs.
FUCK MYSPACE.COM
PS. I no my site isn't up yet, my old 1 was closed down.
onsomestupidsitethemakersshouldbeshotspace.com
Also I've noticed there's this popularity thing going on with some people -- who is the hottest, or who has the most friends, etc... I don't know.. Maybe it wouldn't matter what site they were on. Plus there's this sexually explicit nature/content about parts of the community that's starting to bug me. I'm sure some kids venture in Myspace. (Anyway, that's just my opinion.)
Created an account there, but still wondering what the big fuss is all about. The only thing I like about it is the music section.
There are also the design train-wrecks. Something tells me not all the forty-six million users have a working knowledge of HTML code, or even an optic nerve that stretches to their brain. But isn't that the charm? People are allowed to fuck up their profiles in a Darwinian fashion, announcing their dullness with side-scrolling pages, ugly text effects and inane, inane icons. If someone's 'About Me' section amounts a sequence of copy-pastes from quiz sites (as if they define themselves by what eighties song, doughnut, Muppet or 'Police Academy' film some algorithm reckons them to 'be'), then they're an idiot. They're not worth the seconds it takes to untangle their face from their fringe, or their name from the artistic tendrils of tildes, full stops and foreign characters they employ to hide the fact their parents always liked the name Brian.
You know, when I was young (as opposed to the broken-down, cynical nineteen-year-old you see before you), famous people lived in castles in the clouds, a million miles from normal life. Maybe the local MP would visit your school, if you were lucky. But now it's so easy to interact with the likes of Gilles Peterson or Scott Walker. They may not reply, but chances are they'll glance at your page and see what you care to present. A witty comment in a blog can elevate you above all-comers. It's like the Algonquin Round Table, twenty-four hours per day, only you've got infinite time to compose a rejoinder.
So as long as you appreciate that there are idiots online, and don't expect uniformly great design and conversation from Xx_|Fingers|Into|My|Eyes|_xX or *x*[{<3 x--Becca---Charm--x<3 }]*x*, you might find that Myspace.com is the very central banqueting hall of all the Internet's communal chambers. Bands will offer you their sweet music, just because they searched for Andrew Hodson fans and only you appeared. Interesting people will emerge from the woodwork, alongside dead celebrities, inanimate objects and abstract notions (heaven knows how they manage to operate a keyboard). If the world follows Mel to FunZulu.com, I'll happily hold my hands up and admit my mistake. But this kind of website is only as good as the range of people to whom you're connected: it's all very well burning your banknotes, taking the napkin as your unit of currency and Esperanto as your lingua franca (soz, Doc Zamenhoff! Luv ya MWAH!!). But Myspace.com has strength in numbers, and depressingly for those who love to feel hard done-by, its conquest is thoroughly deserved.
How terribly consumer-age, to build up grievances where none is apparent.
Warmest regards,
Oliver Levy.
http://www.myspace.com/LeboviciAB84 for now, and for a long time yet.
PS: I think that I have had too many teacakes and too much Coca-Colee.
http://www.myspaceruinslives.com
http://worstofmyspace.com/
It's like a daily post of some TERRIBLE MySpace page. Good stuff.
This is not your ordinary Pizza Guy.
Carmine Puleo a Sicilian immigrant that truly resembles Tony Soprano, X owner of 9 pizzerias, coincidently enough the last 2 of his establishments one in New Jersey, and one in South Beach FL. Both where Named Soprano's Pizzeria. Carmine is now the founder of www.FunZulu.com & contends that the American dream is alive and well, also predicts that history will repeat it self & dot com's will at some point rebound.
When I asked him how he intends to compete in this market place with such giants as MySpace?? he simply relied, "it's not the first horse out the gate that wins the race John, at one time I was a new comer in the pizza world and after owning 9 shops my competitors will tell you this dude is viciously competitive" this X Pizzeria owner is one of the most ambitious tenacious focused individuals I have ever interviewed, you know just by the tone of his voice, this is one intense individual.
FunZulu.com has a lot of the same characteristics as MySpace, but, it is also very different in many aspects, it is as addictive as Myspace, if not more so, FunZulu is new to the scene and just launched Jan 3, 2006, the world of social community networking portals is a rough wave to ride and only the strong will survive.
Just like MySpace it seems that they've launched it on a shoe string budget , but as we all know, that does not spell success nor failure, but it does mean that FZ just like many new start ups has a big mountain to climb, ultimately how successful it will become, remains to be seen.
The site has grown by 200% in new membership in March alone and it seems that it's starting to gain some momentum. Although FZ is still under the radar, Carmine Puleo CEO and Founder likes that way, " John I don't want the competition knowing we even exist just yet, if they wake up one morning and say, who the hell is FunZulu.com, then I know we've done our job ".
The site is totally free & in my honest opinion it's worth joining. I can tell you from my experience there and from interviewing some of their loyal members, I'd have to say www.FunZulu.com on a scale from 1 to 10 currently rates a 8.6. Carmine and his
6 I-T Team members who all own a piece of FZ, believe FZ is a success story about to unfold and predict that the word of mouth will go into high gear with in 6 Mo.
Carmine Puleo who likes to be called Mel on the site, says the big stuff that I'm not privy to discuss will be launched towards the end of 2006, so while Mel keeps us all in suspense the only thing we can do is wait and see if FunZulu dominates the head lines in the next 18 months.
Wouldn't that be funny when all the losers came home from school to check there myspace and they had all be deleted.
Myspace Sucks!
Yes, that's a realistic solution the whole family can enjoy. You man of the people, you!
our youth and It retards people. We need to stop this site.
Any ideas how?
i found a site that sells anti-MySpace stuff. Check it out
www.cafepress.com/myspacesucks/
fun stuff
(ps. I visited this website through a link, so you can't say anything. :) )
AMAZING HOW MUCH PEOPLE TRY TO BE COOL AND INTELLECTUAL ON AN ONLINE FORUM SO THEY CAN ATTRACT ALL KINDS OF ATTENTION. SUCH A FUCKING DATING SERVICE. ALbino Polar Bear, when we hate something, We will voice it out. Just the way that is our business, stopping us from ranting is not your business, my cyberspace, nonfriend friend.
It's quite sad that you spend your time on a web page moaning about another web page.
You must be too uninteresting to have a whole webpage dedicated to you hence why myspace is too much for you. bless.
Why don't you see what myspace is. A fad. A way to talk to your mates for free. A way to discover new music. A way to make your views (however ridiculous) known. And it's a hell of a lot safer than using chatrooms.
and who gives a fuck about whether people use the right HTML. wtf?! get a life.
How many of you actually do have a myspace account? and are just sulking cos your only friend is tom?! haha
popularity does NOT equate quality
case in point: macdonalds
THE MOST popular fast food chain in the worl and their food is barely edible
Myspace is crap.
FUCK ALL THESE FUCKING SITES EXCEPT MSN SPACES BUT ESPECIALLY FUCK MYSPACE!!! To fucking tom: FUCK YOU you shit from a cow PLEASE CONSUME POISION TO ALL YOU FUCKING EMO BASTARDS USING MYSPACE YOU TOO
One time I was at my friends and he got me to make a fucking myspace (I protested, but I did not want to break up a friendship over myspace...he is a timid guy) and it was even SHITTIER than i thought i was like WHAT THE FUCK is this SHIT I have not touched it since, I hope it got deleted, I am ashamed to have my email adress on that fucking disgrace.
If I was rich, which I intend to be, and I am fucking serious about this, I would hire a hacker to hack their fucking site and complete destroy it and then an assassin to assassinate fucking tom, who is probably just a human shaped bag of snakes.
IN SUMMARY: FUCK YOU MYSPACE
FUCK YOU TOM
FUCK YOU SATAN (for the record)
I prefer the underdog sites much like www.matchactivity.com where its a fairly new company and doesnt make you a zombie and slave to the site. If you are looking to hook up with someone then you set up a date and see who wants to go with you simple. In addition you wont have to worry about some of your "friends" saying "hey you ^$^@&@* why havent you commented on my new pics?" Geez for a social networking site it sounds more like high school all over again with the annoyances.
peace.
And anyway, why shouldn't MySpace give its users enough web-design-based rope to hang themselves? A page that flashes up shocking-pink with flashing unicorns tends to facilitate a speedy egress.
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I don't hate MySpace, but find it useless and annoying. It's a little superficial,full of wierdos and spyware, and invariably time-consuming to create a page that you're probably going to end up being judged on. As a creative/artistic person, it smacks of lameness. As an adult, it smacks of immaturity. It is no accident that the trendy myspace style of rAnDOmlY USeD CapITiLIzAtiOn came from unimaginative, underdeveloped souls crying out for attention. And from what I've heard, it's quite useless for meeting chicks.
But the reason I dislike it is that people I know, even family members pressure me to become a "myspacer" when I couldn't be bothered. All in all, way to much "conformity pressure" exuded from the site for my tastes.
Although I do plan on using it to promote/share my poetry & prose at some point, for what it's worth.
iS tHAt aN AcCePtaBlE eXpLAnAtIon mYSpAcErS???
Myspace is good because it allows for people to keep in contact with otherwise unreachable people from your past who you dearly miss and wish to see again. It has also introduced me to some of my favorite bands, allowed my band to get plays and shows, and has been the jumpstart for more than a few artists careers. It has also led me to many sites where I can learn about community service, social/political action, and has allowed me to delve even deeper into philosophy
Myspace is bad because once you reach a certain number of friends, to the spammers, you're no longer considered a "person," but an account, and you are targeted heavily from phishers and otherwise.
Since I could care less about the way a page is laid out, I really don't have much of an opinion on that. And, if almost every link you click on goes to a new pop-up, that might be your computer/internet settings, because it only does that for external links for me.
For communicating, though, i prefer peoplegrade, while myspace is more for music.
They fixed the exploit!!!
.....
Oh well, anyways it was XXS vulnerable.
>:-D
Myspace sucks, anyways. Just get your own site!
you get paid for uploading pictures,videos, inviting friends,creating your blog and many more.
have a look:
http://www.yuwie.com/yuwie.asp?r=6168
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