I have one, DO YOU?

I cannot believe I did not think of this sooner. So many people have one and here I am wondering what to write about next. I was ALWAYS the type to say I would never have one. I would constantly make fun of my friends for having one and wasting there time on it. I go on this website on the daily now and I can tell you myself, I STILL think it is ridiculous how much time I spend on it. I make fun of myself for having one and still make fun of other people for having one. Yes, I am talking about MYSPACE!

Let me give you a little background about Myspace. Myspace originated in CALIFORNIA and all of a sudden people from other states started using it too. Myspace was started up by Tom Anderson and has been the #6 most visited website in the world and #3 in the United States. Tom Anderson graduated from UC Berkeley and then UCLA. He then created Myspace and now there are over 300 million people who use myspace all over the world. There are 30 million people who have a myspace in California.

This brings me to the criticisms about Myspace and how it provokes more violence and just ruins a person's life. I completely disagree! If a person blames Myspace for ruining a relationship... it was already going bad to begin with. The cases about young girls getting raped and sexually harassed is ludicrous... if they wouldnt place such provactive pictures and information this would not occur as often. Myspace has tools to block a person and people shouldnt place private information on the website in the first place.

I decided to have one only to keep in touch with friends and family and not for any other reason. It is set on private just like it should be. It was really good Tom made this myspace craze.

Comments

[Sarah Shauan]

Here's a fun little manifesto (or a "bitter-sounding-rant" if you will...)about the social pitfalls of the current myspace craze! Please click the link only if you have an open mind, and sense of humor about those of us with the dreaded "myspace addiction". LOL. http://www.myspacesucks.8m.com/

[Sarah Shauan]

This is a great, and truly "californian" phenomena to post about. MySpace has been considered by many (including myself) as a sort of drug with an unparalleled addiction. Personally, I've been clean for about five months now. (hahaha!) I eventually HAD to get rid of the MySpace page because it started taking over my life!! My schedule would have to include lots of computer time, and if I was sent disgruntled or even hateful messages by old "enemies" that I hadn't seen in over five years it would just ruin my day! That was something that really bothered me about MySpace. The very qualities of connection treasured and utilised by so many could also deliver devestating blows in the forms of ex-boyfriends who broke your heart, ex-best friends who deliberately betrayed you (and now ironically want to know if you'll "add" them!) and bitter rivals whose only goal on the internet, it seems, is to "seek and destory" your reputation. In the long-run I agree with you that whatever happens to you on MySpace you probably had coming in real life anyway, but in truth MySpace seems to just expedite the process and it's also really not fun to deal with people when they're simply flexing their "internet muscles".

[Sarah Shauan]

Okay guys, I know I'm wearing out my keyboard on this thread, but I just clicked the link I put in above and I feel I should warn you that the author is FULL ON MAKING PROFANE FUN OF MYSPACE so please use discretion! It's a very fun rant to read, I just don't want anyone offended. Thanks!

[ariana]

Sarah,
I absolutely find those comments on the website you shared about myspace true... that is why I do find it funny. I was and am that type of person who makes fun of it even though I have one. I would love to spend more time on myspace, but unfortunately I dont. That is so good you have been "clean" for five months now!

[RJ Ramos a.k.a. Sunshine]

Wow this is so funny! I was just thinking about MySpace and it is way cool. I started out on Friendster back in the day which was also pretty neat. Then one of my friends invited me to check out MySpace. At first I just set up my profile so I can view my other friends profiles. Then one day, I spent like two hours clicking on one friend's profile, to another, then another, finding all this people I knew or had lost over the years. Eventually I deleted my Friendster because it was getting crazy trying to keep both of them up and running. As you can tell, I prefer MySpace. Now I use it to network for the various clubs and organizations that I am involved with and also to spread "The Word" whatever that may be! See you on MySpace!

[Dana Motley]

I refuse to get a myspace account, just on principle. Yes, some of my family members do have an account, but I can easily call them on the phone to keep in touch and that goes for friends as well. My feeling is, if I really wanted to keep in touch with people I went to high school with, how many years back, I would. People grow apart and change and grow into their own person; high school reunions are for seeing people that you graduated with and will probably never see again, unless you never move. I do not have a need for myspace and will probably never get an account.

[liz]

I will never have a myspace! Every single one of my friends has one and they always ask me to get on on it. First of all i do not have enough time to spend on it. I do not inderstand how people can spend hours and hours and hours on myspace. I know i would not beable to because i just do not have the patience for it. It is funny to me because this is how people communicate. i swear people do not even use phones anymore to talk.

[YESENIA]

well first of all I dont have a myspace and dont even think of starting one. Not just because I dont like it, too many things's happen in there and really I think it's just dumb even having one but hey that's just my opinoin I hope nobody starts to hate.

[Adrian]

My space is really cool way to post pictures, talk to friends, find out where the next best party is,and so on. I think it is ridiculous. I am just not a computer person and i do not get how people spend so much time on My space. Don't get me wrong if you have the time to do that, thats cool i just do not understand this My space craze. My good friend that does not live here said get a My space so we can talk more, and i said why can,t you just pick up a phone.