Thoughts on myspace?

personally i am very anti-myspace. i fell it corrupts our youth (not to mention all of the online predators).

i would like to know YOUR feelings on the subject. do you have a myspace? if so how often do you check for comments? / change the appearance of your myspace? / look at the myspaces of your friends?

this is the basic online activity of an average, ordinary, everyday myspacer:

hmm leme see if i got a comment... YES OMG OMG YES I GOT A COMMENT!... now i have to comment this person back or they'll hate me forever (its only polite, right?)! hmm well since i'm commenting this person i might as well comment everyone on my list!! whoa! this person i'm commenting who i don't even know has a super sweet background so im gona go on the site they got it on an make it MY background muahahaha.. wow this site with the cool background has some other cool stuff for my myspace.. i better put all this crap in my myspace so lots of people comment me on how cool it looks! YAY!!

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I have to laugh at your example of a myspacer. I guess it can be very true. There are those who are manic about it. And I do think it has it's definete downfalls as in young children there being exposed to inappropriate material. Having said that - I do have a myspace. But my reasoning is different. I live far away from many of my family and friends. Many of my friends live out of the country. We all got myspace sites to share photos, have a place to catch each other up on what's going on in our lives - that kind of thing. I get e-mail alerts when someone on my list comments or such - so I don't usually go check it unless I get an e-mail. Or if I am going to post something myself. Now, I would be a liar if I didn't add that I had alot of fun finding a background and adding things that weren't necessary. But I am far from an addict. I occasionally come across things that I add - but it is more to amuse my friends and family than so that they will think I am cool.

So, while I think that the site can be very damaging - especially to young kids - I also think that if young kids are on the internet, their parents should be supervising what sites they go to. Young kids should not surf alone. Even teen agers should have some limits as to the sites they can visit. And there are more than one ways to make sure that your child is not visiting sites that you don't want them to. So I don't think it is the downfall of the site that is to blame - but that of parents who are not watching where their kids are going. Just my opinion.

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myspace id STUPID. it should be banned from the internet.. what do kids do on it anyways?? i dont get it! people cause so much trouble on it! and alot of people try to reinvent themselves on it FAKE

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hahaha i like your "example" of the average myspacer. i think myspace is both good and bad, i do have a myspace page and yes i definatly check it too often but i DONT act like that, everyone i have on my friends list are either family or friends i see in real life and im not at all into commenting or any of that crap, to me myspace is nothing more then a fancy form of e-mail,thats all i do with it e-mail firnds and family and for me its has been a good thing i am much closer to certain people because of it and it has made my life more enjoyable. its not all bad man and not everyone uses it the same at all.

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Yes people can pretend to be whoever online. So it dont matter what kind of blog you have going online some predator can prey on anybody if its accessible to the public.

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i personally hate a little piece of myself for having a myspace (im usually such a non-conformist) but its something to do. i dont get into all the ' i only have 20 friends, my life is over!!" crap. i dont even except anyone I dont know

however, i did just start a club, and i made a myspace page for the memebers to chat and keep up with one another, and i think it helps a lot.

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I do agree with some of your comments. I personally don't have one and don't plan on making one aas well. I just think that kids and teens and people in general need to be very careful about what they post and who they talk to.

For Girls: Just because he says the right things to you doesn't mean that he's not a creep! Please be careful because their are sickos and weirdos out there who can give a crap about who you are.

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I'm in college, I originally got MySpace to stay connected to my friends during the summer months. I also commute but go to a University, so it helps me stay connected through friends and class mates. I use it to let them know what's going on in my life and just kill some extra time. I have pictures up but they are are very clean. Most of the time I talk about my fiance and acting responsibly. I have a lot of younger kids that are my friends on there because I have a younger brother. I try to set a good example for them. But it does worry me seeing these 14 year old kids on there, half naked, in sexually provocative positions talking about how many people they've slept with or who they've given oral sex to. I'm only 20, but when I was 14, holding hand an getting a peck on the lips was a huge deal, now it's only a big deal if you get pregnant. It does scare me, but you can't ban something just because some people abuse it or act stupid with it. That is why parents should monitor their kids more, yeah I know kids are more technologically advanced than their parents now-a-days, but there are ways to check up on them. And if you don't know how, then bruise your parently pride a little and get some help with it. It's only going to help your child in the long run.... they are getting pretty nasty on there.

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I personally love MySpace. I'm a graphic/web designer so I use it to network and the pages are easily customizable so it's a inexpensive way to get my name and my work out there.

I love how people suddenly think that MySpace is evil and has corrupted our youth. Please. The Internet period has corrupted the youth. MySpace is not the only site out there that people can make a personal page on. There's LiveJournal, FaceBook, Hi5, Friendster, etc. Some people do take it too seriously staying on it all day, checking comments and notes 24/7, obsessing over how many people want to add them as a friend. In that aspect it's lame. I've found that people who complain about how lame and stupid it is are the same people who end up making a page in the end.

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i think myspace is good and bad. i have a myspace account only to talk to my friends and post silly comments on their pages and they post silly comments on my page i think it's fun. also some people i lost touch with years ago have found me on myspace and it's great to catch up with old friends. the only people that are my "friends" on myspace are people that i actually know plus like one or two of my favorite bands and it's great to receive upcoming tour date notices from my favorite bands. i also like myspace because i can post one bulletin about a party or whatever that all my friends can read instead of making 20 phone calls. i think myspace is bad because of the little 14 or 15 year old girls that dress like sluts and pretend they are 19 or 20. it only attracts sexual predators and it's their own damn fault. they should learn to act their own age. but overall i think myspace is good if you don't abuse it.