MySpace, I hate you

May 7, 2008

I had two friends with birthdays this week and MySpace was kind enough to let me know. MySpace went out of its way to send me an email, letting me know about my friends’ birthdays.

The email itself was very nice looking and well-formatted and told me, very clearly about the birthdays. The one thing it left out, of course, was the only thing that in any way mattered: the names of the friends who were having birthdays. Instead of names MySpace was kind enough to let me know that if I visited MySpace I could find out which of my friends were having birthdays.

It was just a reminder of how much I hate MySpace.

From the crappy obscene ads to the crappy user pages that crash my browser and assault my senses. From its auto-play music to the fact that MySpace mobile is completely unusable, I hate MySpace.

I thought that being owned by Rupert Murdoch (the owner of Fox News [a disturbingly conservative news network]) would put enough money in the coffers to truly fix the problems that made MySpace stink so much, but it didn’t change a thing.

At this point MySpace is bloated and falling apart at the seams, and I hate it. I hate the fact that I have to maintain an account because I have so many friends that only use MySpace.

Do me a favor, if you read this, do us all a favor. Put in a vote for decency on the web, a vote for clean easy to use websites that aren’t so obvious about treating its users like eyeballs for their ad network; and at least sign up for, and try out a different social media site.

If you need help finding good ones, take a look at my home page, you’ll find a list of the ones I use and a link to my profiles. I know it’s a pain to recreate your profile elsewhere, but you’ll be glad of it in the end I think. And, when you’ve migrated your stuff to the new service, add me as a contact and let me know.

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