Comments on: Thoughts on MySpace

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:26:44 +0000

`It’s a great place for people who can’t set up a blog or gallery to do it all easily’

I thought blogger.com was free. Flickr certainly is. Redbubble combines photo-sharing and social-networking. What possible excuse is there for myspace now?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree with a lot of what you're saying... However I do have a MySpace account. I know it's been said before, but whatever its failings, everyone has one and it's an easy way to stay in touch with people.

One thing that makes me laugh is how all of the pages are named with random different takes on the word "myspace." There is "MySpace.com" "MySpace" "Myspace" and "myspace". It's basically just random.

But whatever.

By: Sunny Boy

Sunny Boy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agreed with you on everything you said up until "But despite all these issues, MySpace still manages to be so utterly addictive."

In my opinion it's not addictive, but yes it is complicated and usability and accessibility aren't exactly on the creators' minds.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

myspace is teh suck(TM).

I keep finding my photos get ripped-off by angsty teenage so-called "Christian" fundamentalists who don't know the meaning of the word `copyright'. Still, we have ways & means of dealing with that automatically - it's quite tempting to go on and post something like "so, what does your minister teach you about respecting others' wishes?" except that would require registering, so stuff it.

By: Dagur

Dagur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I absolutely hate it. I hate to look for a band on google only to find out that their only website is a myspace page. And I know of at least one band that closed its site down and just links to their myspace page. >_<

By: Pyotr

Pyotr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

…and then there’s the issue of MySpace being a one-stop shop for child predators…

By: Clear

Clear — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don't mind it, mainly because I like to push it to its limits, I can block adverts, add javascript, totally re do the page to make it look nothing like a myspace page. It has messaging capabilities, a place to share photos, blogs etc. It's a great place for people who can't set up a blog or gallery to do it all easily.

People saying it's easy for companies to get information on you, to be honest they'll get it anyway and probably have alot of that information anyway, and with regards to the whole child predators thing. If you are under 16 and actually say you are then your profile is set to private so people can't view it unless they add you/know your name and email address. Also with regards to this I haven;t seen a report yet of a child being conned into meeting a peadophile via myspace yet, I have however read that two girls got a guy to meet him for a 'date' and then robbed him at gun point.