Social networking is a load of crap. If people really wanted to know what was going on in your life they would give you a call or meet you for lunch. To use MySpace, you first have to forget the English language and start turning nouns like “friend” into verbs. When someone wants to “friend” you, you had better accept. You don’t want to offend someone and then have them make all of their “friends” write nasty things on your MySpace page. It’s either that or an invitation to a house to have them and 7 of their real friends beat the crap out of you, videotape it, and post it on MySpace to show all of their MySpace “friends” they mean business. You have 10,000 “friends”? I bet you do. I bet you also invite them all to Thanksgiving dinner and buy all 10,000 of them Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza gifts as well.
“But it’s a great place for up and coming bands to get their music out there” you say? I have a better suggestion for all of the bands out there who think that MySpace is the way to get a record label to notice you: go play your music for real live people in a bistro or in someone’s backyard for a birthday party instead of expecting us all to go to your MySpace page to check out your edgy new “single”. Guess what? You don’t have a “single” because you aren’t a real band; you are a MySpace sideshow. You know that picture of your “band” that you have as a tiled background on your MySpace page? You know, the one where you are all turned slightly to the left with the thumbs of every member of your “band” stuck in their pockets? You aren’t original for coming up with that, you saw it on the MySpace page of the “band” who “friended” your “band” yesterday.
The fact that people would rather ask you for your MySpace page than engage you in a real life conversation is appalling. I don’t want to be your MySpace “friend” and I don’t give a crap who your “band” is. What angers me the most about MySpace is that a Google search of “EricHatesYou” returns the number one result of a guy whose MySpace name also happens to be “EricHatesYou”. I don’t have MySpace, but until my site is the number one “EricHatesYou” Google search result, there is an open invitation to the owner of this MySpace page to a beating at my house from me and 7 of my real life friends.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I hate MySpace Too. My kid told me I had to have a page. OK. Fun Fun.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Eric, you are my hero!