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Myspace a waste of space?

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Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

09:02 / 27.06.07

This is me!

Although I guess I am trying to keep it more work-centric, that's really just a cover for my lack of personality.

Phex: Dorset Doom

09:35 / 27.06.07

Well I guess we don't all have the poise, breeding and Letterman jackets necessary for a Facebook profile, since thisEssay points out that Myspace is for ,b>"burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm, whereas Facebook is for the goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids. Which is just great. Now you'll have to excuse me, me and my bros are going to get into the big expensive car my dad bought me, rock some Limp Bizkit, drink a six-pack of PBR and check the hotties at a kegger.

14:08 / 27.06.07

Good things about myspace for me - I can stay in touch with my friends in different places for free, it provides me with somewhere to put my blogs, it gives me a chance to flirt with girls in a non threathening manner (and yep it does work), and I can keep track of the millions of obscure bands I obssess over.

Bad things about myspace - theoretically, I am making Rupert Murdoch a tiny bit of money, and if a girl wants to stake a claim over me she can do it publicly via the guestbook (I know I'm making myself sound like a total womaniser but this stuff actually happens, mostly by posting shedloads of comments), and I leave myself open to myspace stalking if I have conversations via my and others' guestbooks - yep, this has actually happened as well.

I have very limited internet access so I've never had chance for my myspace use to become unhealthy. The people who spend hours and hours on it sending out pointless bulletins and so forth really need to get a life. If anyone wants to add me, I'm at www.myspace.com/johnnykowalski.

19:01 / 27.06.07

My Myspace account perhaps isn't going quite as well as it might have done. After some months I have only four friends, these being the guy who seems to run the thing; a young man who'd no doubt really like me if he met me, but possibly only after some cash had changed hands; PW, formerly of this parish, and an insurance salesman with his own company.

I suppose I shouldn't have said I was 61 ...

Disco is My Class War

02:17 / 28.06.07

It's pretty freaky that Facebook won't let you see people's profiles unless you join. I guess it's just another way of creating ancitipation and the desire to 'be part of it', but it's also about exclusivity.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:49 / 28.06.07

Hmm, it's a tricky one that, really, as it's also about privacy- if you can change your privacy settings so only people in your network can see your profile, which you may want to do for a variety of reasons, it's a bit silly if anyone who's not logged in can see it.

16:56 / 02.07.07

This should be a working link to my facebook profile. Possibly.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:10 / 03.08.07

I think I might have found the excuse I've been looking for to delete my Facebook account...

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