What the HELL is with My Space?

The BBQ Pit
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How is this shit so popular? The entire network sucks ass! The idea is great, but the site is fucking horrible.

I can never log in, I get error messages all the time and it rarely works at all.

Today I went to “add a friend” to my list so I could read a certain user’s blog, etc. It tell sme that user “no longer exists”. Uh oh, did he get deleted for some violation? I can actually see that happening, so I’m not overly surprised.

After being bumped around from useless page to useless page (at a snail’s pace) I finally try to log into my own page… maybe I can get to my “friend’s” page from there.

I can only log in when I’m lucky enough to stumble across the login page (like when I try do do something that’s for registered users only). You know the login page, it’s the one that looks like a screencap of another page with the hard to see “login” button that doesn’t look at all like a button. :mad:

Apparently I have been “deleted” too. I figure I’ll log into my admin page, you know where I go to make changes to my own blog (which I never use). Where the fuck is THAT link?

I try a known working user, they’re “deleted” too.

This thing is horrible. My error messages constantly have text strings in them like “notextareastringavailable”. Is this network programmed by Space Monkeys with Down’s?

Whatistheirphobiawiththespacebaranyway? Fuckingretarted!

Yesterday there was an advanced search. Today, no such thing can be found.

  ^ ^ This happens a lot! ^ ^

Nice. No link to do anything else, no suggestions, nothing. Just “Sorry we suck, figure it out yourself”. Want to know what I did to receive such an error?

I clicked the “Home” link.

Nice. :rolleyes:

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Wasn’t there something in the news about MySpace having major problems 'cause the main servers were in LA and there were heat related brown-outs? I may be misremembering.

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Yeah, it’s been having issues.

I mean, it always has issues, and i really have no idea why. You can do the same thing 10 times, and twice you’ll get a “Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.
This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group.”

I logged on this morning and at least half of my friends’ pages i clicked on came up with the “Invalid User ID error: Either your friend has cancelled their membership or they have been deleted for a violation”

So give it some time and they might sort things out.

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You’re not, but this stuff happens all the time.

It surprises me that a site with such a flaky connection and such horrible, horrible design (usually the users’ fault) is so popular. I guess I shoul djust keep reminding myself that I’m eight years above the average age. Of course, my website at 16 was dark red text on an off-white background and perfectly legible.

Sigh.

Myspace: Too many tools available to too many tools.

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And it’s too hard to find teenaged girls. They should have a better search tool.

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I don’t even think the idea is great. :smiley:

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Someone posted this on another message board I visit when he saw it on Myspace today:

“Latest Update: 08:59AM PST, Friday, July 28th. hiya - your accounts are not deleted. we’re just moving some databases around to a new data center. we’re workin on things right now.”

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Ne neither, but where else are we to find a girl to strangle on a highway off ramp.

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I think it’s a great site.

But I’ve only held that idea for about the past week. Before that I thought it was the devil.

Then I realized that about half the people I work with are teenagers. And most of them have Myspaces. And some of the more annoying ones like to write in their blogs and complain about work. It’s hillarious, because the distorted accounts they give, and the most inane things they complain about. Then again, I have a really weird sense of humor.

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It’s really not hard to log in. Most of the time it keeps you logged in, but if you aren’t. . . just click “HOME”. It will either take you to the sign in page or your front page.

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I go on MySpace once in a while to look at my teenagers’ pages, and almost every single time, it knocks out my DSL. I then have to unplug and plug it back in and completely reboot. I’ve never heard of this happening to anyone else, but it happens to me a lot.

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Wait - you’re using the SD forums…and complaining about another site’s connectivity problems?

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MySpace? You mean people need more than the Straight Dope and Fark? Greedy bastards.

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But MySpace is where predators go to find minors to have sex with!

(I learned this on shows such as Dr. Phil, America’s Most Wanted, Dateline NBC, and Oprah. Good thing I’m not a predator, eh?)

Perhaps there’s more than one thing interfering with people’s functionality on that forum, is all I’m saying.

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Only a couple positives:

  • Every once in a while someone you haven’t seen for several years finds you and you talk for a little bit.

  • Tech support there is actually fairly helpful, considering. They explain problems in a timely manner, although frankly there are too many problems to explain.

I only have mine so that people can find a way to contact me that’s isolated enough from my person that I can ignore it if I don’t like them or I can connect with them if I do.

Er…how about message boards, IRC, buying her email address, blogging, Xanga, LiveJournal, the 8 million LiveJournal ripoffs, etc. etc…

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Almost. It is Microsoft servers and Fusebox and who knows what else slapped into the soup of web apps

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Go compare for a week.

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Face. Book.

If you can get in there, do it. It’s unfortunate that it’s so exclusive, but that’s also part of what makes it not suck.

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You know, I still haven’t figured out what MySpace really is, let alone why it’s so popular. The few times I’ve been on a MySpace page, I was so unimpressed it actually took away from my ability to be impressed about other things.

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It’s a guestbook with pictures. Nothing more, nothing less. I always forget that I even have one, until someone mentions Myspace. Heh. I actually logged onto it last night after reading this thread with the intention of deleting it, but then I found out that Chris Watters (A.K.A. Major Victory!) has one. Now I’m going to keep it so I can send him obsessive messages and comments, 'cause he’s just the King of Cuteington. And I’m really pathetic (read: insane) like that. Oh well.