So I have been doing the whole Myspace thing for about 8 months now. For the most part it’s been fine. I managed to not make a disaster of my profile page like 90% of the rest of Myspacers have. I enjoy browsing the bands and film maker’s sites there are listed. Cheese It even has their own Myspace page for pimping of the Stupid Hobbitsess Videos (though I think the Youtube versions get more hits). The concept of Myspace works very well and I enjoy checking it and keeping in touch with friends.
That being said….. Why are there so many [bleep]-tards on there?!?!?! Let’s go over a few bullet points about Myspace shall we?
If I have not met you in person, or at least know you so well that I talk to you on a regular basis, I have no need to add you as a friend. This is important because I regularly get invites from people that are “LOL yur in a costume that’s cool! Be my friend” Or the less offensive ones of “Hey Club buddy, I do that too!” Sorry, even though the 501st is a tight knit club, there are still 5000 of us out there and that means probably a good 4900 that I haven’t met. I like the 501st all well and good and you may be like me but, but let’s be honest, if I met me on the street at random, I may not be inclined to talk to me. ESPECIALLY do not send a friend request without a message as well that says “hey, I am so and so.” Just getting random requests does nothing for me.
If you post this Bulletin, Hot Women will have sex in your back yard! Snopes is your friend! Back in the early days of e-mail, people would send out the standard “Open this e-mail and you will instantly get $50,000 in your bank account” types of e-mails. These have migrated to Myspace in the way of Bulletins! Apparently there are millions of Sick kids with Bill Gates’ money that want to send chain messages to the world! It’s fake, really.
Spam Spam Spam, Myspace Messages, Spam and Spam. Yup, the spammers have found their way into the myspace message system. Not surprising really, but they come in three flavors, one less entertaining than the others.
You have a new Myspace Message! It’s Viagra Just for You! Apparently Belinda on myspace is concerned with the size of my member…..ship status and thinks I need enhancements! Nothing new here, just the usual spam mail. This is the boring one.
You have a new Myspace Message! Hey there Handsome! Now Belinda is sending me a message because she thinks my myspace profile looks cool and so I must want to hang out with her cause, like, you know, the picture I have is so totally hot!. She has hot pics of her and her BFF (Jill?) on an isolated island together where they had to sponge bathe each other. I should check out the link she sent. This would be fine and dandy if I hadn’t gotten this message on the Cheese It profile page. Which has no pictures, or any personal information.
You have a new Friend Request! Lillian wants to be your friend! Wow, this incredibly hot babe who is wearing next to nothing wants to be my friend! Her profile looks pretty standard……….. and she only has one picture up………….. and her about me section says something about a profile on another site that allows naked photos! It’s amazing that she would pick ME to be her friend! She must really like me! Oh… wait, she has a few other friends… The list if growing…. Now there are comments? People are actually accepting her friend requests? Not only are they accepting, but leaving comments like this person is REAL! I feel bad for the girls whose photos are being used for this, because there are only like 5 photos that get rotated and all have different names. I don’t know which is sadder, that spammers are using photos and accounts to do this, or that there are morons on Myspace that fall for it because either 1: they want to add to their list of 679936320 friends, or 2: they actually believe this person is real.
So over all, myspace is not bad. There are just so many people registered that it brings the average IQ of myspace down to that of a 3 year old. So please people, help bring this average up. Flag the spam as spam to help Tom Identify the bad guys. Ignore/Deny the spam friend requests. And please, if you honest and truly know me, feel free to add me as a friend, but if we have never met, try getting to know me first!
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