Al wrote:laneela wrote:myspace haters crack me up. What is it to you what people choose to do?
Free will is what makes this country great. I
don't care what you choose to do with your time, but I do care about my time, and I don't want to waste it with that garbage.
And that's perfectly fine! I completely understand why some people choose to shuffle myspace.com off to the landfill department of their internet reality - it doesn't take too many wrong turns on that site to turn you into an honest hater of templates - but that's
your choice.
Personally I hate any fucking page, myspace or other, that opens with a soundfile without me asking for it. There're few things more annoying than a few mindless clicks that involuntarily lead you to the latest emo shitcore band and their talentless single at 180% volume.
However, and this is a big fucking however: I like myspace. It's honest. It doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't and (importantly) isn't any shittier than the person who designs the page.
There're a ton of people on that site who make shitty fucking pages, embed derivative, whiny crap and write awful blogs that read like the anal excretions of a 9-year old. But, and this is a big but (it'd have to be, I grant you): once in a while, there's a purpose to it. Yeah, it might not be grand poetry, or the song might not be fantastic, or the page setup might bug you, but you'll find an author you wouldn't have discovered, an old friend from highschool, a band that's playing in your town that you'd never have known otherwise, or what the fuck else.
Lining Rupert Murdoch's pockets? I got news for you, you can't take a fucking dump without doing that. So unless you never watch any program produced by Fox, Fox EU, FOXTEL, ITV, SkyTV, StarTV or TATASKY; read any book published by Harper Collins or or ReganBooks; watch a movie produced by 20th Century Fox, Searchlight or Regency, just, well,
shut the fuck up.
As Dave Gorman said: "You can believe in any old poppycock you want as long as you're nice to each other". So if someone enjoys using a website to stay in touch with friends, just let them do so. And until you can provide a fully functional and superior alternative, shut the fuck up.