MySpace? Ummm…whosespace?

January 22nd, 2008

Following comments to Mira’s most recent post, I came across Simon Owens’ huge rant, I thought I’d just finish Simon’s list (or at least extend it, in case someone else would like to finish it.

So, here are my additions to Simon’s 10-piece-list.

11.The front page of MySpace appears as an “Unknown error” 2-3 times a day.

12. They list “pagan”, “wiccan” and other similar stuff as religions, while if you happen to be an Orthodox Christian, which is one of the largest divisions of Christianity, you have to select “Christian-Other”. Come on.

13. They replied me to say that they’re sorry, but they can’t change “Yugoslavia” to “Serbia and Montenegro”. Then, when Serbia and Montenegro split, they didn’t respond to one single petition about us having rights to pick the countries we actually live in. My current location reads Beograd, Serbia, definitely not, Micronesia, Federate States Of. I didn’t want to put Yugoslavia and either way, that country was just a pale reminder of the huge happy one I was born in.

14. No RSS on blogs. No way to export or import shit in the civilised, real Web 2.0. way. So, when I post a blog here, I usually have to write a bulletin on MySpace, while my Facebook and LiveJournal have RSS and my friends on those sites know that I’d updated squirrelism.

15. No way to go to blog’s homepage when reading a blog entry. And that is downright stupid.

16. No limit in adding STUPID SHIT to one’s profile. Yes, seriously, I arrived to your profile to watch twenty-four YouTube videos.

17. The lame and shitty top friends concept. Whose idea was it to rank friends, anyway? I’m keeping my favourite musician as my number one, a work profile as number two and I added a couple of charities and nonsense links there as well, as I don’t want to rank my friends. A friend who’s totally obsessed with MySpace told me that he’d add me back to his top friends now that we’re talking again. I mean, WHAT? Do you really think I care if I’m your top friend or not? It sure is slightly flattering to me, but how are your other friends feeling?

18. Did I mention bulletins? At the very beginning, I did not understand what were those for, but now it seems that some people are using them for various exhibitionist purposes. Some of the suggestive responses I’ve seen in people’s surveys scare me. But surveys will need their own topic, as some of the repeating questions are just…marvellous.

19. The ego-factor. One of my closest friends has become a less close friend when MySpace became an important thing in her life. She was actually resisting to make an account there and then she realised what exciting work opportunities it might bring to her (she works in, let’s say, public relations). Now she’s responding with Haven’t you seen my calendar on MySpace? I was at [insert place here] for [insert the reason here]! when I ask I have not seen you in a while. Where have you been? Are you OK? Love you. Whenever I am ranting about her at home, I tell my parents that MySpace took her away from me.

20. Horrible spelling is spreading as the freakin’ flu. I don’t remember seeing misspellings such as actaully, mascarea, exems and such before. Now I almost tend to believe that people see misspelled words and think it’s the right way to write or, even worse, the cooler way?

That’s all I could think of right now. I will need one more entry to cover the phenomenon MySpace apparently is here in Serbia, but I don’t know if it’ll be interesting to people who don’t live here.

Also, I might write an entry to cover the (minor) good sides of MySpace.

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10 Responses to “MySpace? Ummm…whosespace?”

  1. Dona on January 22, 2008 5:47 pm

    Dabogda crk’o onaj ko ga je izmislio (MySpace, mislim).

    Nemam reci za taj sajt, i hvala ti mnogo za ovaj zurnal. Meni je dovoljno to sto muzika pocne da svira sama od sebe, i to uglavnom neku pesmu koja mi se ne dopada/ne zelim da je cujem. I sve to preko moje muzike u Winamp-u. Jeeej! :DDD

    Znas li sta je najtuznije? Mnogi se prave da, ako nemas MS, onda ne postojis. Nema te.
    Moja cimerka je pomagala da se organizuje izvesna gitarijada. Isla je, mucila se, trazila sponzore, i uvek dobijala isti odgovor: Necemo ni da pogledamo vasu organizaciju ako nemate MySpace. Necemo da sponzorisemo bendove koji nemaju MySpace. I to su joj rekli ljudi iz najuglednijih prodavnica, fabrika, sta vec.

    Ja bih rado procitala nesto vise o fenomenu MS-a u Srbiji, zato sto priznajem da nisam upoznata sa istim. Ako me ljudi pitaju da li imam nalog tamo, kazem im da nemam i dam im do znanja da ne nameravam da ga imam.

    Grr, sad mrzim MS jos vise >_<;;

  2. Sigg3 on January 22, 2008 6:28 pm

    21. The people who use MySpace.

  3. Ivy on January 24, 2008 7:25 am

    I never got into the MySpace phase. I only signed-up because someone used my email to sign-up. WTF. It’s not like she could validate her account without the activation email.

    The blinky text and the auto-music drive me nuts. Oh and all the crazy divs that doesn’t look right in ANY browser. Nuts, I tell you!

  4. Mira Buva on January 24, 2008 2:42 pm

    True, very true.
    But still, we have to make a MySpace page for our punk band PEIMS (once we find a guitarist/singer).
    Agree?

  5. Maja on January 24, 2008 4:20 pm

    MS je p***** d**.

    Pardon ako se neko osetio uvredjen, ali ne mogu da nadjem adekvatniji izraz.

  6. Sigg3 on January 25, 2008 12:15 am

    I keep reading “whorespace” when I skim through your headline.. Kinda appropriate this time:)

  7. Michael on January 25, 2008 3:58 am

    I totally agree with you on their “top friends list.” I mean, you would never do that in real life. It’s only segregating both your online and offline friends, and if you rank your offline friends, you are only pushing them away.

    I also agree on the bulletin board issue. I’ve a high school friend with no life at all posting 10 to 20 of those chain letters a day! So naturally, I miss all others’ news. What an annoyance!

  8. Michael on January 25, 2008 4:00 am

    But I did find a lot of old friends through there…

  9. Sigg3 on January 25, 2008 12:45 pm

    Then again, there may be reasons why friends become “old friends”..

  10. Jami on January 30, 2008 11:55 pm

    I agree with all your rants, wholeheartedly. And add the fact that the coding on their profiles sucks. If people learn to code that way, can you imagine what the internet will look like? Scary.

    Great blog here, by the way. Love your writing style and I stumbled “up” your post on Yahoo. :)

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