I was at the library, as what usually happens on Thursdays. After driving there, we walked in, dropped our books off, did the usual, yawn. I walked toward the music section, grabbed a book I grab every week. It's unpopularity makes it easy to re-check it out every week.. I may as well own the book. Anyway, I then walked over to the Sci-Fi section, to see if Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was back finally.. Sure enough, it was. Grab, move, check. I then walked to the movies. Luckily, my mother had found the movie that matched the book I had recently grabbed from the shelves. My younger brother was still looking at movies, so I sat down with my handheld (Zire 72), and began playing the newly released Bike or Die 1.4 that I have been anticipating for quite some time. I was having a good time.
I then, unfortunately, noticed this 'thing' in front of me. She had to have been 300 pounds, definitely had problems with acne, and obviously like MySpace (You know who you are!). I decided, then, that I should write up something about MySpace.com. Walking around the huge library, I walked around all 64 computers. I began counting. Making statistics. Making numbers. Counting figures. However you want to say it. So, I came up with the following figures.
Library catalog: 9
Hotmail/Yahoo! Mail: 5
Random/Misc. Sites: 16
Myspace: 34
Wow, 34 users simulataneously in one library. Think of how bad it is in the rest of the world. I decided to do some statistcs, and I discovered that on average (size/area/people) that there are over 680,000 people use it simulatenously in the world. And I'm sure I'm off on that, too.
So, why Myspace? What does Myspace do? Keeps you in touch with friends, family, strangers. Eek, strangers. Okay, wonderful. So we now have a place where people from all over the world can talk to eachother, exchange conversations, pictures, friends, family, etc. Once again, I ask why? If you want to talk to your friends, why not call them? Why not e-mail them? Let's look at abilities with Myspace.
1) Registering
You have to register, which means you're giving the world your address, phone number, age, location, school, and plenty more. Good job.
Next) Talking
Nice, you can chat with people you'll never know. For example, that 300 pound, sumo/acne-infested lady was actually posing as a 22 year old girl, yet she had grey hair. Eww. So how do you know that guy/girl is really who she says she is? You don't.
3) Registering
You have to register, which means.. Erm, I already said this. Came through my head again, must be important.
4) Bulletins
Bulletins, honestly, have got to be the stupidest thing I have ever seen. All they are is chain stuff. "Sned tihs 2 all ur frends or ur acount wil get remuved". Stupid people say, "Okay. I needed to come up with something to post on this worthless bulletin anyway."
5) The fact that you probably didn't notice I missed number 2.
6) The fact that you probably thought I was joking, and didn't scroll up.
7) Quitting
Those who come back to reality after reading this, and want to get rid of their MySpace account, can't. I had one at one time, to see what it was like. Unfortunately, I was sadly dissappointed with the ads, stupidity, pointlessness, and furthermore, idiocy of this site, I decided to quit. Or, try at least. After sending a request to close my account not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, but 7 bloody times, they finally closed it.
As a closing, what am I trying to say? I am not going to make you quit MySpace. In fact, I'm not expecting anyone to quit because of this. But I do recommend you watch what you do on this site. Not only does it have serious security flaws, and thousands of people trying to hack it for telephone/addresses consistently, but it is also completely stupid, pointless, and a waste of time.
Thank you for reading this, as I needed to let out the steam.
-John
God bless our troops.
