My 9 reasons for leaving Myspace (for good!)
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Introduction
Ah, Myspace, the home of the pictures taken at funny angles, in black and white, and obviously photoshopped. How we have grown to hate you. If only we were strong enough, we would delete you from our del.icio.us most visited list, delete you from our Firefox Bookmark tabs, and delete you from our lives. However, we're not strong, we are weak.
Until we summon the courage to finally leave you to rest in piece, I list 9 reasons why we detest you so.
p.s. if you enjoyed this, please come visit my new blog: www.thelump.wordpress.com
1
You're just so sslllloooooooow
Why do you have to take ages in loading pages up? I only clicked on the Home tab, yet its loading up what seems to be the ENTIRE Internet on one page.
2
You crash at everything
And if you're not going slow, you're stopping altogether. Like a whimpering toddler in a department store, you collapse in a heap on the floor refusing to go on, just because a few hundred thousand people are all trying to access you at any given second of the day. Urgh.
3
You've made HTML ugly.
At which point around board meetings do you go "Hey, I know guys, lets set no restrictions on customization, lets really open the floodgates!"
Hah, yeah! 'Cause glittery, seizure-enducing wallpaper, and tear-jerkingly frustrating music that you just cant turn off is what everybody wants from your page. WTF is this, falling penguins? Kill me now!
Hah, yeah! 'Cause glittery, seizure-enducing wallpaper, and tear-jerkingly frustrating music that you just cant turn off is what everybody wants from your page. WTF is this, falling penguins? Kill me now!
4
Band Spam
Who started this spam shit? Bands that trail though Rage Against the Machines' friends list, and then send the same message to 20,000 users just because your bassist one wore a Rage tee Shirt. Or, you sound something like them, if RaTM were 14 years old, and shit.
Please stop encouraging bands to promote how awful they are. thankyou.
Please stop encouraging bands to promote how awful they are. thankyou.
5
You've made my friends rate how much of a friend I am.
Everyones done it, everyone's bumped a friend out of the top 8 because you've met someone cooler. Yet getting messages from people saying "um, why did I get bumped from your top friends???" makes you want to grate your eyes out with the wrong end of a spoon. "Maybe it's because you GIVE A SHIT about my top 8, you freak?!"
6
You've done nothing to squash these stupid quizzes
What colour socks do you have on today?
When did you last go to the mall?
When did you last cry?
When did you stop giving a fuck about everything in life except stupid quizzes and then forcing your friends to do it as well?
When did you stop realising that nobody cares what you're doing?
When did you last go to the mall?
When did you last cry?
When did you stop giving a fuck about everything in life except stupid quizzes and then forcing your friends to do it as well?
When did you stop realising that nobody cares what you're doing?
7
You've started making people use you as a verb
"Do you know Clare?"
"No, is she fit? I'll Myspace her later and have a look"
You'll do what now? You'll myspace her? No, I think you'll find you'll go home and look for her on Myspace, you won't "myspace" her because that's utter bollocks you're talking.
"No, is she fit? I'll Myspace her later and have a look"
You'll do what now? You'll myspace her? No, I think you'll find you'll go home and look for her on Myspace, you won't "myspace" her because that's utter bollocks you're talking.
8
You make bebo look classy
Honestly, bebo is probably the worst creation in the world of social networking. It looks like the work of "special children", yet, compared to your site, it looks like a Rembrandt.
9
Facebook is better
it's a fact.
had a myspace profile for, oh, 3 months. couldn't stand dealing with all of the things you listed above, plus all of the randoms that came out of the wood work requesting to be your "friend". no thanks.
I want leave it because it's owned by News Corp (Fox News)... yuck...
NewsCorp are thinking about selling it to Yahoo! though. i've written about it in this weeks blog (see link above) but its for this weeks entry (so you'll have to wait till tuesday sadly)
Yea, but we oldies can't have face book accounts because we aren't affiliated with a school. Right?
Great list, by the way. You might be interested in this article: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html.
It's about how the kids who are leaving MySpace for Facebook are, by and large, of a higher socioeconomic class. MySpace is becoming more of a haven for underclasses such as minorities, gay and lesbian teens, and subcultures like goths.
That's something that would probably have Rupert Murdoch frothing at the mouth. :-)
It's about how the kids who are leaving MySpace for Facebook are, by and large, of a higher socioeconomic class. MySpace is becoming more of a haven for underclasses such as minorities, gay and lesbian teens, and subcultures like goths.
That's something that would probably have Rupert Murdoch frothing at the mouth. :-)
yes, i did read that! i think someone submitted it to digg, and i glanced over it during my break. it was a good read.
like i said before, i mention the whole newscorp / myspace / yahoo who's buying, who's selling debacle on 'this week in lumps', which has now been finished for this week, and it'll appear at midday tomorrow DST (UK time) so that's 4am for Noah and Kelly in San Fran :P
like i said before, i mention the whole newscorp / myspace / yahoo who's buying, who's selling debacle on 'this week in lumps', which has now been finished for this week, and it'll appear at midday tomorrow DST (UK time) so that's 4am for Noah and Kelly in San Fran :P
Whoa, Brie-P is going to be pissed at yoyology as I just set up a Face Book acct. D**n, one more place mom has infiltrated. (she doesn't swear in front of me).
Whoa, bummer for my kids. I registered in Face Book. They hate that I get on these sites. Mommmm! These are for young people!
i heart this list . . . there are two kinds of people in this world. myspace people and facebook people. do i even need to point out the difference. now if i could just import my linked in contacts to facebook, life would be complete
keep up the evangelism!
keep up the evangelism!
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