You tell everyone it’s a great way to meet people, a great way to find cool indie bands, and a maybe you think it’s a much-needed extra hand in the Getting Laid Dept. It’s aol for the socially elite. It’s the open source SUV of the blog world: totally uneccessary but how did we live without it?
For a second, though, let’s be honest. You have a myspace account so that you can spy on your former classmates and see what kind of dumb shit they write about in their blogs. You do it because somewhere, deep deep deeeeep down inside of you there is a jerk off 17 year old kid who wants to see how fucked up all of those people are, but thankfully the jerk off 26 year old you really are has a sense of irony that doesn’t let him get too judgmental because, it ain’t like everything is going so well for him either.
But you check these people out and you see them struggle, you see them writhe and clumsily assert themselves in paragraphs of vague self-expression, sometimes not-so-cleverly sticking it to corporate America (and then putting Fiona Apple in their “currently listening” window for an extra shot of irony), often trampling the English language with cyber-kitschy misspellings and always being careful to avoid being too obvious about who they may be slagging as to avoid retaliation and hold any responsibility for their words.
For a second your not-quite-grown up self considers responding: swinging in from stage left onto the set of the worst school play you have ever seen, and then begin trashing the set, slapping the director, and knocking over the cardboard cutout supporting cast. But these days, for some reason it’s just more fun to watch. So go ahead. Have a good time. You deserve it.
Myspace is all things to all people.
For me, it is a nonstop train wreck buffet serving up damaged goods with room for all the extra baggage you can handle.
jaded, much? hahaha. you forgot to sat that myspace is one of the few places left where a female (a minor, in fact) can take revealing photos of herself, lie about her age, and get a lot of attention for it. i thought myspace was actually for 26 year olds to look at and think to themselves, “if i was only eight or so years younger….that chick would be all over me!”