Tech Horror
From the comments on a Slashdot post about MySpace. As one person said, “MySpace is nothing new, just Geocities 9 years on.” And someone else with a story I can terrifyingly relate to:
I fucking hate Myspace. I am sorry, but everybody on the site seems to love to fuck with their background adding music, pictures and other bullshit making it first of all impossible view to their page correctly, and second the annoy the living hell out of you by playing the same music track continuously. Yes, I know you can “pause” the music, but so many people seem to fuck up their own pages that the text boxes are all screwed up and crap gets moved all over the page. A friend from college asked me join Myspace and hook up with him. I tried to add him as a friend, but his page formatting is whacked and I cannot find his contact box ANYWHERE on the page, so I just gave up.
My friends on Livejournal don’t have this stupid problem.
Amen. Don Q, man, I love ya, but I just can’t brave the terror that is MySpace.
Look, I’m not going to pretend it’s the easiest thing in the world to set up a domain and host your own site like I have. It’s just not for everybody — but that’s the reason places like LiveJournal and Blogger exist. To serve the less-technically-inclined with functioning, tasteful self-publishing and networking. Whereas MySpace is surely the grotesque, otherworldly, unknown and forgotten fifth offspring of Cthulhu. Like Gummo Marx, but evil.