Myspace ruins Yourlife
Yup, I said it. Myspace ruins lives. And shamefully…I’ve fed the Myspace beast.
So you say… “what is this Myspace devil-net and how can I protect myself from it’s damning tentacles?”
Firstly…Myspace is an incredibly addictive (I admit it) online social network. Basically, a not-so-personal weblog diary with pictures. According to the terms and conditions of the site, you must be at least 14 years old to join. But believe me, ANYONE can join Myspace. Users are asked to fill out a personal profile including photos, likes/dislikes in music, sexuality, religion, body type, ethnicity, education, zodiac, etc., etc. Users can browse/search for other users through common interests or photos and request to add them as “friends.” Friends can leave comments, links, pictures, etc. As you can image, people flood the place pretending to be someone(thing) that they are not (read - 14 year old girls saying they’re 21 or…30 year old dudes saying that they’re a 16 year old boy or girl). Click on myspace is gay for sad-but-true photo examples. I understand Myspace can’t control this. They respectfully CYA here . And yes…there are loads of legitimate Myspacers just being themselves.
Secondly…Myspace cannot protect YOU from YOURself. If you post it, someone will see it.
Thirdly…still don’t know what myspace is, check out…MySpace: from Answers.com
And…in case you didn’t know…
Mommies and Daddies!
1. your little 14 year old daughter is posting semi-nude pictures of herself, her address, phone number, and where she’s gonna be Friday night. Oh…is that a beer and/or a joint that I see in those pictures she posted? Smart…(see Why the internet can be a bad place to meet people. A murder in Virginia. The Taylor Behl story. )
2. your little Tommy has been posting about how he’s gonna kill himself or somebody else because he feels all alone. (see Teens Both Kept Weblogs)
3. If you still don’t know what the hell is going on, check out…Internet Safety: Internet 101 - Blog and Diary Web sites
LADIES!!!
1. As much as I enjoy the female figure(and I do)…posting semi-nude pictures of yourself does nothing for that little self-esteem issue (implants don’t fix this either - hugs/affirmation do). This is not Myporn. You can be a real adult film “star” with a few simple phone calls or web clicks.
2. And for you teen girls…posting nude/semi-nude pics is ILLEGAL. This is not Mykiddieporn (which = jail time, btw). Oh, and you might wanna googleMap your local Sex Offenders with the free US Sex Offender Registry Mapping System just to be safe.
DUDE!!!
1. Stop taking pictures of your penis & your abs. Seriously.
2. Seriously.
Recently, I saw this…
And started considering the impact this is having on people (mainly teens, tweens). So, I googled “myspace ruined mylife”and “myspace effect”…
Well I have been puting off joining myspace, but I finally had enough of being bugged by friends to join so I did it. To be honest I think it has ruined my life. I check it a thousand times a day, mostly to chat with this girl I have been seeing. I also have succummed to the blog, I filled out my first one today. I really don’t know how I feel about writing out my feeling for the world to see. I have been up to my ears in work. I’m up to an alltime high of four different jobs, oh yeah and there is school too. I have never felt so drained in my life. deviantART: ElHefe: Journal
The sites appeared on the school’s radar when administrators learned a student was communicating online with someone who was not truthful about who they were, their age and where they lived…Blogging ban provokes a debate over cyberspace
Check out the # of comments Myspace blocked on school computers.
I was going to go to sleep, really, but then I decided to be a myspace slut. I get these moments where I wander [figuratively] around alone on myspace late at night, or very drunk. And since the blinds are down and the overhead light is off, it seems like the middle of the night. Then again, my propensity to be overly amused by myspace has, effectively, ruined my life. It’s the awkward myspace condition. A m n e s i a
Yes, yes…I know this applies to all similar online activities (including blogging -wink,wink). Myspace, however, is the number one social networking site (26 million+ members) and one addictive mutha (even for adults). I do applaud Myspace for it’s inherent marketing/promotion ability & for starting the Myspace Record label which is F*ing GENIUS.
my name is fff
and I used to myspace.
Hello, fff.
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November 26th, 2005 at 2:44 am
wahahaha, i own myspaceisgay.com and saw you in the referrers today. this is great.
November 27th, 2005 at 5:06 am
Shit! Wish I could of editing that.. I was trying to put a trackback link to you from my blog at Y 360… but the perma link is at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/djsteve007?p=42 . ..
Anyoo thanks again!
December 1st, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Oh, please. This is entirely pathetic. It takes a lot more than a stupid website addiction to ruin someone’s life. Why is everyone attacking myspace, when someone with almost no HTML skills could easily make a webpage with just as much or more profanity on almost any web host? On myspace, it is common that people choose the setting that only lets the friends that they approve of see their complete page. This page, itself, is gay.
December 1st, 2005 at 6:20 pm
Found this on http://www.shoutwire.com
Funny read.
, Scienott
IrcSpy.com/TorrentSpy.com/ShoutWire.com/SpikedHumor.com Administrator
December 26th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
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December 28th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
wow. myspace does ruin lives d00d.
: ) i have really been wanting to delete it. i’ve even hovered over the “CANCEL ACCOUNT” button.
i need some sort of help.
December 30th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
hey. i agree. and disagree. it can ruin ur life. if u let it. dont put too much personal information on there. esp. if it is ILLEGAL. there are a lot of grazies on myspace. it just depends on how u use the site.
January 2nd, 2006 at 2:11 am
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-11-14.html#n66 http://teentec.net/2005/11/13/another-myspace-worm/ http://mpelembe.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/19/1413903.html http://www.jamesonsfiles.com/usisucks/myspace/http://www.fastandloud.com/theword/myspace-ruins-yourlife/ http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-10-14-n81.html http://namb.la/popular/ And it goes on……….. Lol to the 38mil+ caught in it’s web. Roflobster Me and Mx owned them and there’s so much left.
January 4th, 2006 at 6:21 am
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January 6th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Good stuff. And damn MySpace is annoying.
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January 8th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
[...] MySpace is a free social networking internet service which enables its registered members to communicate through blogs, an internal e-mail system, web forums and more. Members can also upload and display photos and other information on their profile. History MySpace was founded in 2003 as a web portal for musicians. Artists were provided a means of sharing music as well as information on future concert locations. The website’s userbase has since grown beyond musicians and as of late-2005 there are over 42 million MySpace users. Many mainstream music groups also have promotional pages on the site and celebrities such as Jason Mraz, Dane Cook, Spiraling, Kelly Osbourne, Shane McMahon, Fall Out Boy, and Tommy Lee have said in interviews that they have or had profiles in the site. Prior to the current site, the MySpace.com domain was a virtual drive service that shut down years ago when the dot-com bubble burst. The current MySpace service was founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson, the current President, Chris DeWolfe, the current CEO, and a small team of programmers. It was partially owned by Intermix Media, which was bought in July 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises). The site is reportedly written in ColdFusion and ASP.NET and run on Microsoft Windows servers. MySpace, being the free social networking internet service that it is, allows anyone with a valid email to create a MySpace page. ProblemsMany people enjoy the freedom in MySpace to express themselves by customising their profiles. However, this freedom permits malformed HTML, CSS, videos, or Flash animations in profiles. This can sometimes render unreadable text or loud music, and may strain system resources or even crash the web browser. While most malicious code is filtered out, some users have still found ways to insert disruptive HTML.In July 2005 Kuro5hin reported a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on MySpace [1]. In October 2005, a user, "Samy" exploited this vulnerability creating a worm which added millions of people to his buddy list, and forced MySpace to go offline for maintenance [2].Chain letters and messages that claim that MySpace will charge money or shut down circulate the user bulletin boards if they don’t pass the message around. MySpace solves this by saying "You dont need to pass any silly bulletins around to ’save’ your account. We don’t delete accounts for being inactive. You will never have to post a bulletin to save your account, that’s nonsense. If you got deleted, it’s because you’re underage or broke the rules.". Users are also spammed with other sorts of chain letters that can sometimes be hateful to different groups of people or even threatning. Usually, this is only a problem for newcomers to MySpace, who have never seen any message of the sort before. Regular users on the other hand, usually recognize them and skip and delete the messages, while others report those who post them.Many people use the picture feature on MySpace to display nudity and some times pornographic images although it is against the rules. This is only a problem for all viewers under the age of 18 since you don’t need to have a profile to see a user’s pictures.MySpace seems to have a policy which prohibits users under 14 but, the rule doesn’t seem the be enforced strictly as there are users who claim they are underaged on their profile without any actions being done.Some users experience chronic login problems.The site has many coding errors that have not been fixed, despite being pointed out many times (such as off-by-one errors in the number of discussion pages or replies in groups)Users commonly experience error messages such as the ubiquitous "Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group."MySpace is sometimes slow or/and unresponsive.As with other websites of the like, Myspace profiles contain people of questionable nature who propagate drug usage and confess to being addicting to them. Some members even try selling drugs on Myspace, most of the time sucessfully. The users simply post bulletins that are sent out to multiple users at a time about what they have available for sale and how they can be reached.There are criminals on MySpace looking to meet with people in person to do crimes with/to.MySpace Records MySpace sponsored the Vans Warped Tour 2005, where they had a tent. They set up signings and meet & greets from bands on the tour. Recently Tom Anderson has begun a side project called MySpace Records, a music label signing artists who have been successful through MySpace. Hollywood Undead was the first of many bands to be signed. MySpace Records released its first compilation CD on November 15, 2005. The CD has been promoted by MySpace with the promise of giving buyers four more profile pictures (bringing their picture limit to sixteen) if they send in a card which is included in the CD. Also, people who preordered their CD will get eight additional profile pictures. The CD itself features pictures of other MySpace members. See alsoTom Anderson — founderList of social networking sitesExternal links This article or section has or is prone to spam, that is, HTML links added only to promote a site or product. Following Wikipedia:External links, please help Wikipedia by removing any commercial links on sight. Please retain this notice if necessary, and report rampant spamming as per instructions at Wikipedia:Spam. (you can help!)MySpaceThe user-friendly Web site teens can’t resist: An article explaining the Myspace phenomenonThis entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. 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January 10th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
well i have a myspace and it is not that bad dude…lol.
January 12th, 2006 at 8:01 am
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January 26th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Yes it can. It’s the biggest time waster in my office. But it can be a handy tool, if used appropriately.
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February 10th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
i am so not deleting my account, myspace enables me to keep in touch with all my friends and family! i can’t just quit. no.
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February 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
lol most ppl at myspace dont have lifes anyway so whats the diffrence..?
February 14th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Congratulations for your blog, it is very nice to read.
Alex
February 15th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Honestly, it’s just a site. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to fo near it. It’s just to ease the boredom with some little entertainment. It doesn’t ruin lives. You must be ugly or have no friends on the website. It sucks when you don’t have friends.
Royal Richie Says:
February 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
lol most ppl at myspace dont have lifes anyway so whats the diffrence..?
You only person with no life is you. It’s just a fuckin website. Get over it. It’s not like you don’t put down other things that are getting into popularitiy.
February 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 pm
This is the stupidest garbage I’ve read in quite a while.
February 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
hey..after reading the article above i agree and disagree….
it COULD RUIN your life if you make the WRONG DECISIONS and you LET IT RUIN YOUR LIFE….like posting nude/semi-nude pictures of you or by putting too much information that the myspace world to see……..
and it DOES NOT ruin your life when you make the right decisons on how you use myspace…
the only thing that you think that makes myspace ruin your life is because of what’s happening in the myspace world…
but actually its because of the people in it who are dumb enough to reaaally expose themselves and choose the WRONG DECISIONS and by using myspace in a wrong way…..
it’s the people’s fault in myspace for using it in a wrong way and it DEPENDS ON HOW YOU USE THE SITE..not myspace..anywayz people make mistakes but it doesnt mean that we shouldn’t do anything about it..
soooo props to this site
March 13th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
i have some things to add, i was in the situation and i look back on it and think how lame it was. posting parting pictures of getting drunk and stoned on their and the reality of it all was it just got me introuble lol not worth it.
March 16th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
You know what really confuses me? People who say that they use MySpace to stay in contact with friends and family (i.e. Joe). Isn’t that what email is for? Ever heard of IM? I could name five different IM services that you can use to stay in touch with everyone.
Also: Who wants to bet that Ava is a hardcore MySpacer?
Also2: You didn’t metion that the retina searing profile layouts are a serious health hazard. Staring at those for hours on end will cause you to go blind sooner than wanking off.
March 18th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Myspace should die, and about a week ago I had my first and only horrible experience with myspace, and I decided since I’m a nerd, I should make a page out of it.
Http://myspaceruinslives.com
so i decided to google “myspace ruins lives”, and ended up getting 32892389239874392 results, approximately. and thus, ended up here.
good to know I’m not the only one whos life myspace has ruined.
March 21st, 2006 at 12:26 pm
my husband used it for porn and pics of young girls. he was addicted. it was terrible. it’s pathetic, sure, but it happened and we almost got divorced. the half-nude/nude and underage pics + fake personas are what suck.
April 9th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
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April 14th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
i’m in love with fff…this guy is brilliant! Lauren, can you make it happen?http://www.fastandloud.com/theword/myspace-ruins-yourlife/ also check out this ifilm… http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146
April 19th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
February 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
lol most ppl at myspace dont have lifes anyway so whats the diffrence..?
You only person with no life is you. It’s just a fuckin website. Get over it. It’s not like you don’t put down other things that are getting into popularitiy.
i loled at that i just had to comment, my space is designed specially for people who do no have friend …to “make” so called “friends” posting comments like “ooohhh woooppwoop my party was crazy bro” and crap like that, why do you need to tell people??? they do’nt care about being “popular” guys c’mon it’s the internet c’mon the cyberspace…jesus, my friends have my spce and i think they r sad bc they spend most of their lives there…quote”hey its lunchtime wanna go to the computer room to my space???” -_- errr…. no youu sad fuck…they post videos and stuff for the friends… who were there… so they c an say “oooooooh good times” … wait a minute…. we don’t give a shyte…., also if you wanna be popular just go out and make good friends. … hang out with them, get a gf/bf wotever u prefer and get laid for fuk sake…. oh yer i almost forgot the scum of the earth.. EMOS god i hate them, i think they r jus attention seeeking cunts… i know some Emo guys but they r jus….trying toooo fukin hard to fit in with the “kewl ppl”
April 22nd, 2006 at 3:32 am
MySpace really ruins lives?…
Perhaps MySpace changes lives.
If anyone’s life is [semi] permanently is ruined by a social networking website I guess the cause could have been anything else too.
And what does ruined means? Permanent damage? A long road to recovery?
Which is …
April 23rd, 2006 at 1:12 pm
Myspace ruins the lives of people who dont even use it. PROOF? My husband has had Myspace since December 2005. Within two months of him joining it he turned into a man I do not recognise, he has become obsessed with its filth. He is communicating with several of the women he has found on it… not through myspace but through msn…he has internet sex with these foul people and thinks he is doing nothing wrong, its just a laugh apparently. When he was out of work he was doing it all day and night…never came away from the pc except to get food. His whole personality & being has changed, it has killed our marriage & he wants a divorce… he anounced he was leaving me to get a flat by himself..this was because he wanted to live on his own so he could do myspace every waking moment of every day without me seeing what he was up to and without me catching him ‘at it’. Yes it DOES ruin lives…the lives of the innocent families of the people who are caught up by the evil of the MySpace entity.
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Drakonik said: “Also2: You didn’t metion that the retina searing profile layouts are a serious health hazard. Staring at those for hours on end will cause you to go blind sooner than wanking off.”
Dude… is that a problem with MySpace??? Holy crap.. use your HEAD. That’s the effect that comes with the piece of hardware that’s sitting on your desk… It emits light on a magic screen… And find me one person who has gone blind from looking at MySpace profiles…
May 11th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
myspace is very addicting but wen i think of it its really stupid. i just dont have the will power to delete it!
May 12th, 2006 at 2:22 am
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August 14th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
ok so it’s addicting and everything..
but is it really that much of a problem?
if not this, you’re just going to waste your time some other way.
don’t fool yourself that if not for myspace you’d be doing something productive.
August 15th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
Rumor has it that http://www.friendsnest.com is coming out with a better version august 20th
October 4th, 2006 at 11:11 pm
Rumor has it that http://www.friendsnest.com is coming out with a better version November 20th
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:52 am
well all my friends were talking about myspace but i didnt take much notice but i finally did sign up and im starting to think i signed my life away but i know i could just stop going on it and go on with my life but im addicted to it i go on it 5 times a day and before it came out ive been starting to fail and thats because i spend my time on myspace in sted of homework and studing like i used to
April 20th, 2007 at 9:13 am
well lifes a bitch and ya its addicting and no body has the power to get rid of so oh well
May 19th, 2007 at 9:35 am
My sister got a myspace at the age of 15 and was on it all the time. My parents told her that the site was making her attitude go wack. and that she had to delete her profile. After a week went by my parents couldnt see a change in her attitude and added some software to her computer to see what she was doing. SHE WAS STILL GETTING ON MYSPACE! May parents showed her and she was growned.
Now that she is 20 and has moved on she has chosen that myspace is bad and has ruined her life.
And im not going to get one either!
August 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
LMAO…. this is hilarious and true!
December 18th, 2007 at 7:21 am
myspace dont ruin lives and if it duz then y r u makin blogs here to slag it off ur as bad as it
this cums frm a person thats hadd all the sites and that so
stop moanin and shut the hell up
July 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
wat the hell leave myspace
y not pick on bebo its the same thing as myspace so is myyearbook,tagged, ect pick on them for once
bein addicted to a website dont ruin your life