In any case, have I told you lately how much I hate MySpace, Internet?
I rarely get any personal e-mail directly to my lovely spam-filtered, totally-controlled-by-me, easy-to-access-from-anywhere regular e-mail address anymore. Everyone I know sends messages to my MySpace account instead. Which means that if, say, I’m reading my e-mail on my cellphone, all I get is a notification message with a useless link (because there’s no way I’m ever going to bother checking MySpace with Opera Mini on a freakin’ Razr).
Even if I’m checking mail on my home computer, I still have to go through the otherwise unnecessary steps of clicking through to MySpace, logging in, and finding the message in a jumble of spam. Pain in the fucking ass. Why do people actually prefer sending messages through a third party, when it’s at least 74 times easier, by my calculations, to send a regular e-mail. Especially when you consider that that third party seems to be experiencing “unexpected errors” more often than not, making communication impossible. At least use OkCupid or Facebook or whateverthefuckelse guaranteedtobebetterthanMySpace nomatterwhatitis.
Everyone hates MySpace, right? Guess the internet has a lot of masochists. I’ve been so tempted lately to delete my account, but I’m pretty sure I’d cease to exist to a good chunk of the people I communicate with online.
Oh, rite. Relevant link from Slap in the Facebook: It’s Time for Social Networks to Open Up. Yes, plz.
MySpace is akin to styrofoam — it’s everywhere, it’s the one of the worst things to use in the (new media) environment, yet it is sadly what everything is still packed in, and we’re forced to deal with it whether we want to or not.
Sadly, MySpace marketing still works and still has relevance. Until something comes in and replaces it as the “lowest common denominator” of social networks, it will remain that large block of styrofoam that comes packed into every box.
All that being said, spam management on it is as bad as anything I’ve ever had to experience. If swatting away the spam was easier, it might make the whole experience a shade or two more tolerable.
MySpace is akin to styrofoam — it’s everywhere, it’s the one of the worst things to use in the (new media) environment, yet it is sadly what everything is still packed in, and we’re forced to deal with it whether we want to or not.
Sadly, MySpace marketing still works and still has relevance. Until something comes in and replaces it as the “lowest common denominator” of social networks, it will remain that large block of styrofoam that comes packed into every box.
All that being said, spam management on it is as bad as anything I’ve ever had to experience. If swatting away the spam was easier, it might make the whole experience a shade or two more tolerable.
I, for one, welcome our Web 2.0 overlords
I, for one, welcome our Web 2.0 overlords
MySpace is the passive/aggressive communication technique of choice. People who won’t email me, talk to me on the phone or even in person will message me with it. I guess they feel safer (or less responsible?) by communication via proxy.
MySpace is the passive/aggressive communication technique of choice. People who won’t email me, talk to me on the phone or even in person will message me with it. I guess they feel safer (or less responsible?) by communication via proxy.
I would prefer that people being passive aggressive avoid sending me messages entirely.
I think one of the problems that leads people to use junk like MySpace is that it’s so much easier than setting up and configuring your own website for people that aren’t geeks like me. Plus, non-geeks are more likely to have web-based e-mail. For them, MySpace is probably easier to use than their regular e-mail, because they’re already logged in 24/7, whereas they might not regularly check their spam-filled Hotmail inbox. So I guess it all makes sense.
I don’t know how we can get around any of this. Maybe I should consider communicating only with geeks.
I would prefer that people being passive aggressive avoid sending me messages entirely.
I think one of the problems that leads people to use junk like MySpace is that it’s so much easier than setting up and configuring your own website for people that aren’t geeks like me. Plus, non-geeks are more likely to have web-based e-mail. For them, MySpace is probably easier to use than their regular e-mail, because they’re already logged in 24/7, whereas they might not regularly check their spam-filled Hotmail inbox. So I guess it all makes sense.
I don’t know how we can get around any of this. Maybe I should consider communicating only with geeks.