Is it any good as a dating or hookup site?
I have found that it is more effective than just blindly cruising the high schools.
I’m 21, around in the age group most likely to utilize MySpace, and I have to say that for all the site’s faults its a great way to stay in touch with friends, especially if they’re halfway across the country or the world. It’s also neat to be able to customize your MySpace and get a little artistic.
As for dating, well I met my bf right here on the Dope, but yes, I do know several couples who met on MySpace. One couple in fact are having a baby soon and planning on getting married. So it can work to that end as well.
I’m 28 and I have a Myspace account. But do I actually use it? No. The only reason I got it was because my brothers would never send me pictures of my nephews and nieces but would constantly upload them to Myspace. So it was the only way I could see them 
Other than that, I don’t see the appeal of the site. I guess since I’m not a very social person outside of the net…Who knows. But honestly, whether or not you like it really is just a personal thing.
I use myspace occasionally. I’ve found profiles of friends that have moved away, old classmates, and a few people I’d rather not see or hear from ever again. I’m a private person so I keep my profile as “friends only”. I don’t want to be hit on and I don’t want to share my life, photos and thoughts with everyone. I think I have 15 or so friends and I know all of them.
I don’t understand why so many people post nearly nude photos! :eek:
:smack:
Now he tells me!
I use it because a ton of old high school friends are on there, a ton of my family members are on there, and many of my friends are on there. I have almost 60 MySpace friends from the above groups. It’s proven to be a useful way to keep in touch with everyone. I’m 30 btw.
Heck, I’m 48 and don’t have a friend over 18 on MySpace.
Of course the two MySpace friends that I have are my nephew and niece…
I find it amusing that I occasionally get friend requests from girls 18 to 23. I’m not really sure what the scam is, but I’m not really interested anyway.
I, too, have found a lot of old friends using MySpace. I became a member just to see what it is. It is amazing to see everyone else who is a member out there. You can just type in an e-mail address, and BAM, all of their personal information, stories, etc. is out there.
Where I work if a hot woman comes in, if you get her e-mail address (part of customer information gathering), you quickly type in the information on myspace.com and there it is, bathing suits, kids, clubs they go to. It’s kind of crazy if you think about it.
As far as the ‘nearly nude photos’, if you look harder, you will find ‘totally nude photos’ also.
I loathe myspace. I have one purely because it’s one of the only ways for me to keep in contact with my friends who have joined the military. I don’t like the weird coding they like you to do (I’m irrationally old-school with my HTML coding), I don’t like how slow the site is because so many damn people are on it at any one given time, I don’t like their navigation system, I don’t like that they use FLASH FOR EVERYTHING (half of my problems with Myspace disappeared the day I installed FlashBlocker…I hate Flash), I don’t like that whenever I actually need to use it for something I get an error message, I don’t like the bands and groups that are constantly e-mailing me when I have in glaring red letters not to bother because I don’t accept buddy invitations from ANYONE, and I especially don’t like the large amount of young girls that hang out on there that use words like “kewl!” and phrases like “u rok, dood.”
Myspace was a good idea with a really, really bad execution. And by execution, I mean “putting into motion,” not “killing because of a death sentence,” which I wish I could mean.
(Can you feel the hate?) I miss the days when Livejournal was popular.
~Tasha
You think that’s bad? Basically they took Friendster’s idea and got servers that could actually support more than 5 users at a time.
Honestly, I wonder what Friendster might have become if their CTO wasn’t some kid they picked up off the street.