Archive for August 20th, 2007
Why don’t you just marry MySpace then?!
I’m really sick of hearing the name MySpace today. Whenever I see the word community in relation to the online world MySpace is right there. I can understand that, for 90% of the dumb son of a bitches who know fuck all about anything that was their first thing they can actually do online besides check email. Fine. But it’s when they use the word innovation and MySpace I’m going to go fucking berzerk on their ass.
The big argument for idiots is “it brought people together”. Honestly, that’s really the only thing they can say. There have been TONS of sites that have done this before, be it a chat site, forum, MMO or simply another social site. Lets simply take Friendster as an example. They were around quite a long time before MySpace and they did the social thing really well. Being able to add your information in and search people with similar interests is nothing new. Being able to use a TEMPLATE to create a website isn’t new either. So no, you’re not smart because you can change your background and profile image.
If anything, MySpace did a really BAD job at creating the community. They took the basics but then didn’t enforce the fact that it should be about people. Companies, groups, and advertising pretending to be single people in attempts to connect as well as the unjustified spam is pathetic. They may have made it very simple for users to create profiles, but they have never done a good job at maintaining it.
That being said, stop holding MySpace up so high. Idiot.
