It’s not an either/or. Either you’re on MySpace and you live your life on the Internet, or you don’t have a MySpace and are a decent, upright human being who has a life.
You make it sound as if it’s only for high school students. There are a lot of ADULTS on MySpace. A lot of smart, interesting adults with good taste in movies, music and books, who don’t muck up their pages with garish colors and unreadable text. People who don’t know that are spending their time in the wrong parts of MySpace.
It’s like a city. Imagine visiting a big city for the first time. If you only drove through the slums and red-light district, and only visited a few people who lived in apartments decorated with things that make you roll your eyes, such as hearts and flowers wallpaper surrounding a creepy doll collection, or a NASCAR and beer bottle collection, or posters of dirty rock stars everywhere, and the only houses you noticed were painted orange with pink flamingos on the lawn, or had trash scattered around and cars up on blocks, and the only music you heard was the loud headbangers down the street, the shitty rock band where none of the members know how to play their instruments, or a warbly, off-key Jewel wannabe, and then you took those experiences and condemned the ENTIRE city, thinking the whole place must be as bad or worse, that would be foolish.
You never drove through the neighborhoods with upkept lawns and well-mannered houses. You never visited the people whose shelves are filled with interesting books, or who watch really good movies, or who have fascinating stories to tell, or whose record collections are worthy of thumbing through for a few hours. You never heard the music that appeals to intelligent discerning listeners. And yet the whole city sucks because you and others like you would RATHER NOT see the good parts of the city. It’s easier to whine and complain even though you CHOSE to limit the places you visited.
The problem is YOURS, not MySpace’s. Knock the infrastructure and glitches, and I’ll be right there with you, bitching. Knock the owner and his hatred of anything liberal, and I’ll be right there with you. But when you knock the place as a whole you’re knocking a lot of good people, a lot of good music, and a lot of good information. You and others in this thread, including the OP, are letting your narrow-minded viewpoint override the reality.
