MYSPACE IS THE DEVIL
by Erin Saffer, Media Buyer
That’s right, I said it. I know most of you reading this blog must be instantly offended at the subject of my diatribe, but I am not scared of you MySpacers and your top 8, 12, 36 or 1,408 friends…by the way, Tom doesn’t count!
My abhorrence for MySpace started brewing when I overheard a conversation between two adult women—and I use the term adult loosely—over lunch discussing what their plans for the upcoming weekend were. For the sake of this story, we shall call these adult women “Katy” and “Alicia”. Katy said to Alicia, “What are you up to this weekend?” Alicia responded, “Not sure, I’m pissed though. This girl has been leaving all these random messages on my boyfriend’s page…what a skank!” Katy interjected, “I know! I saw that. I’d be so pissed! You should message her and tell her to back off.” Alicia continued, “AND, I used to be his number one friend and now he’s moved me to number three. What do you think that means?” “Wow, you should totally call him out on that. I noticed I’m not even in his top 8 anymore!” Katy exclaimed.
Okay, I’m going to be honest and say this event didn’t actually happen exactly as I wrote it, but it is more of a conglomeration of some of the ridiculous and unnecessary conversations I’ve heard while sitting at a restaurant or standing in line at a convenience store. There are tons of examples I could relay to you, but I don’t have the time to write them all down and you don’t have the time to read them. Besides, you are either a total offender of starting gossip on everyone’s pages (you know who you are, don’t deny it) or have fallen victim to the mind bombs your so-called friends have planted, or have experienced painful ear bleeds while being stuck in an elevator with these creatures. Here’s the moral of the story: Why put your mind on worry overload when ignorance is bliss. There’s a reason that is a saying, people! Don’t get me wrong though. I don’t advocate ignorance of all kinds, but in this situation, it is a key component in keeping your young minds sane. In my humble opinion, gaining any type of knowledge from this site is actually lowering your IQs! My advice to all you young adults—AVOID MYSPACE LIKE THE PLAGUE!
P.S. If you can’t let go just yet and you MUST keep your account, please, please,
PA-LEASE cut yourself off at 30! I beg you…
September 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Shes just jealous because when she had myspace no one would put her as their top friend
September 11th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
As a 28-ish individual, I have to agree with my girl Erin. There is an age when myspace is ok, but there comes a time when you’re just too old. And the drama that is causes in people’s lives is just crazy. I have also heard many of the over-dramatic converstations about who’s talking to who, who’s in who’s top 8, why they’re not in the top 8, etc. It just doesn’t seem worth the heartache that it can cause. I recently attended my 10 year high school reunion and a lot of people were trying to get me on the myspace bandwagon so we can “keep in touch”. Well, I do have email, so if you want to keep in touch, try emailing me. I would much rather have a personal email from someone than to have to sort through endless comments and posts on a myspace page to find a hello from an old friend. Not to mention, if we’ve not kept in touch since high school, what are the chances we will now, honestly! And in conclusion, I know if I got on myspace now, everyone I know would put me in their top 8, and the whoever got bumped would be offended, and I just don’t want to do that to anyone…yeah right!
September 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am
No you are mistaken, she was coaxed into having a MySpace page by the “MySpace Recruitment Team” ( a vicious sect that brain washes people into thinking having a MySpace page is important).
People put to much stock into a lame Internet site that allows people with a shallow social circle a false sense of importance and a false feeling of friendship. Even better it allows people who you probably wanted to forget the ability to track you down and p.s. there is a reason you lost touch to begin with.
What a great statement about the scary proposition of the next generation of young adults. They are the TTYL, OMG, LMAO generation who are so desensitized and jaded that they have to number their friends and buy clothes pre-broken in because their the A.D.D. self involved generation who communicates in text messages and abbreviations and are slowly loosing the the ability to learn proper social interaction because they are so lost in there minutia that they will render themselves helpless.
It is the same reason that most of the kids in there early 20’s have never voted and have no idea about our foreign polices but somehow know all Brad and Angelina’s kids names. I can proudly say I never had a MySpace page and will never have one. Tom will never be my friend and I know who my number one friends are.
So to all of you who use it, enjoy.
And to my people who don’t, omg and wtf and ttyl.
Honestly… MySpace to me is the space I need after conversing with the mindless drones who use Facebook, MySpace and watch shows like The Hills.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:56 am
Hello, i want to note that your question is typical
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