No, it really does make no sense. “Glow your precious past”?
Anyhow. Myspace pages are pretty horrendous, in general. Dark colors on black and light colors on white are not easy to read, and yet seem to be common, as are gaudy backgrounds.
The first one linked (jannelissexy, or whatever) is tame compared to some I’ve seen. I think the reason it looks bad (on my screen, at least) is that the thick orange border is set to the width of the screen, but the boxes with text are in a fixed position, so they overlap the border and force the screen to scroll. If that layout was fluid to the size of the screen, it wouldn’t be terrible.
You see, Garfield, its sites like that which make me question whether this is really just an elaborate joke. Clockwork’s apparently “taking tolerance to the level of insanity” subjectivity aside, that’s just unreadably awful, and no human being could look at that and think even “ok, this works for now” much less 'wow, looks great, let’s go with it!"
The thing that people forget about the “million-monkey-typewriter factory eventually producing Shakespeare” saying is that beside the one perfect transcript of ‘Hamlet’ is a gigantic pile of useless gibberish (probably including most of the code to these myspace pages).
You let enough people without any sense of Web layout, graphic design or coding in on “easy-to-use” tools to make a site, and you’ll get pages spanning from the truly horrendously crappy to pretty darn good, but seemingly weighted toward the worse end of the scale.
Maybe this is UK-specific…but for many people Myspace is about music. It is for me…I’ve heard some fantastic stuff, met some interesting people, and also heard things by people I knew but who I didn’t know wrote any music.
He’s not trying to “glow his past.” :rolleyes: He’s saying the internet used to be stupid, but he thought it had gotten less stupid, until he saw myspace, and realized that it is equally, if not more, stupid. And near as I can tell, you’re doing your best to prove his point for him. Jesus Christ, get some fucking syntax, already.
You think myspace is bad? What kills me are the more “straight to the point” singles pages like match and gay and singles dot com.
Alright- you’re given space to talk about yourself- in an ideal world this would be (almost) as important as a good picture of yourself. It could at very least regain some ground lost by not looking like a Real World cast member.
Instead, most people are reckoned downright teeming with personality if they mention they like teddy bears and read a Johanna Lindsey novel. I know nothing about this person who just emailed me or IMd me other than s/he is 38 years old, works in computers and “wannts 2 meeet sumwher and fukk”- WHERE’S THE PANACHE? WHERE’S THE WIT? WHERE’S THE SALES PITCH AND THE HOOK (especially if you don’t look like a 24 year old soap star which most don’t, including the ones who have pictures that look like 24 year old stars)? In short, why should I want to meet you?
Of course admittedly I’m probably the only person ever to run out of spaces on a personals page, but at least the people who’ve emailed me that I ended up meeting or conversing with seem to be capable of conversation. What do the others talk about when they run out of ways to misspell sexual acts and they’ve already gone over the fact that both mention liking McNuggets and apple wine on their homepages?
I just want to chime in with a story about an IT asshole and his MySpace web page.
There is this customer at work. He is an absolute ass. He is an IT manager. He got his job because his college buddy inhereted a business and brought all his college buddies on board.
Anyway, this IT guy is an aboslute asshole. He is the boss IT guy and continually fucks things up, then calls us because shit is broken. He is also an ass about it. Well, someone at work found his MySpace page. It looks like a fucking 12 year old kid put it together. In general, MySpace web pages suck. His page brings suck to a new level. It is a sad, sad site and this guy believes himself to be the king of all things computer when in fact he is just a fucking jackass who got lucky in his friends. (I mean really lucky)
On to the OP: MySpace is just like AOLs early homepages, it is easy to build pages, hard to build well designed pages. MySpace is crap and I am willing to bet that it will be irrelevant with in two years. Why in the hell MySpace got big beats the hell out of me.
Too true, except I don’t know that I thought that the internet was not more stupid: ever seen somethingawful’s “weekend web” feature? I just thought that web design had advanced to the point where even the lowest common denominator realized that animated background gifs over flashing text hurts the eyes.
Can you explain why kids text message eachother when they can talk on the same cell phone?
Can you explain the Pokemon craze?
Can you explain gangsta rap in the lilly white teen suburbs?
Don’t question the bizzare fads of our youth. Just know that they’ll someday grow out of it.
It’s not UK-specific, it’s Smart People Who Are Interested In Good Music-specific.
Apos, you’re in the wrong place. In my corner of MySpace, people are nice, friendly, interesting, they make and listen to good music, and very few of them have terrible pages. If you go looking for crap you’ll find plenty of crap, but if you go looking for quality you’ll find plenty of quality, so quit condemning the entire site because of where you choose to spend your time.
To the modern Internet’s credit, I have not seen the <BLINK> tag used in years aside from old fogies who were using it to make fun of others who once (over)used it.
Maybe I watch too much Dateline but I thought MySpace existed so adolescents could meet pedophiles and pedophiles could meet Chris Hansen and get on TV.
Then install the following greasemonkey scripts:
MySpace Tag Remover: Dance Party
MySpace Custom Style Remover: Dance Party
MySpace Ad Remover: Dance Party