Post by Collie on Apr 26, 2006 19:34:16 GMT
Myspace - it's apparently the hip place all the 'hip' and 'cool' young people are logging onto these days. Anyone got a profile there? Seems every single band has their own profile on it, and as they're all too lazy to update their websites more than once a year, you have to have a myspace account just to find out the latest news.
The thing is, what's so good about Myspace? It's forever going wrong or your favourite band's song won't load, and it's full of annoying egotistical teenagers posting scantily clad pictures of one another in some kind of misguided and totally vain attempt to get loads of 'friends' so they can pretend they're really popular or something. It's probably a pedo/rapists' favourite haunt too.
As there's no stopping the Myspace train as it becomes ever more pop-culture, I thought 'heck, why not get a piece of the action too'. So I've been randomly sending messages to total strangers/weirdos in a foolish attempt to up my friend count. I don't anywhere 5400, that would involve taking my top off and posing like a big-headed twat (actually I think I'd end up with less friends than I started with if I did that), but just 2 non-band entries would be great. That way I can pretend there's some people online who like me. Which is what it's all about.
Sadly, my attempts to gain friends have so far been in vain, and I grow increasingly freaked out by the diversity of the profiles on myspace, and the sheer number of 'odd' folk out there, some of which are probably axe-murders, especially the goth looking ones in dresses.
Perhaps my picture is putting people off. But who wouldn't want to be friends with someone who has Sid James as their profile picture?! The man's a legend!
Probably the best thing I've seen on Myspace during my miserable stay there, is the fake profiles. Ray Stubbs, some other minor celebrities and ........ and ..... BARRY SCOT! Aka, Mr. Cilit Bang. As my own attempt to befriend strangers fails with every passing day, I've got half a mind to make a fake user up myself and see if I have any more success. I suppose Jimmy Hill has already been done.
So anyway, do you lot have any fun experiences with the internet phenomenon that is myspace? And have you ever come across the profiles of people you know/knew in real life? Fucking hell, there's some twats out there (beside myself).
The thing is, what's so good about Myspace? It's forever going wrong or your favourite band's song won't load, and it's full of annoying egotistical teenagers posting scantily clad pictures of one another in some kind of misguided and totally vain attempt to get loads of 'friends' so they can pretend they're really popular or something. It's probably a pedo/rapists' favourite haunt too.
As there's no stopping the Myspace train as it becomes ever more pop-culture, I thought 'heck, why not get a piece of the action too'. So I've been randomly sending messages to total strangers/weirdos in a foolish attempt to up my friend count. I don't anywhere 5400, that would involve taking my top off and posing like a big-headed twat (actually I think I'd end up with less friends than I started with if I did that), but just 2 non-band entries would be great. That way I can pretend there's some people online who like me. Which is what it's all about.
Sadly, my attempts to gain friends have so far been in vain, and I grow increasingly freaked out by the diversity of the profiles on myspace, and the sheer number of 'odd' folk out there, some of which are probably axe-murders, especially the goth looking ones in dresses.
Perhaps my picture is putting people off. But who wouldn't want to be friends with someone who has Sid James as their profile picture?! The man's a legend!
Probably the best thing I've seen on Myspace during my miserable stay there, is the fake profiles. Ray Stubbs, some other minor celebrities and ........ and ..... BARRY SCOT! Aka, Mr. Cilit Bang. As my own attempt to befriend strangers fails with every passing day, I've got half a mind to make a fake user up myself and see if I have any more success. I suppose Jimmy Hill has already been done.
So anyway, do you lot have any fun experiences with the internet phenomenon that is myspace? And have you ever come across the profiles of people you know/knew in real life? Fucking hell, there's some twats out there (beside myself).
