NE1 else avoiding MYSPACE hype?

shelbylovesmelby · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:06 PM

Recently alot of my cyber friends are all on the MYSPACE bandwagon.

I just don't see the point in it? KWIM? I already visit several forums & that's enough for me to keep busy + I'm married & there isn't anything I can't e-mail or post to most of them anyways. I do use alot of graphic intended for myspace on other forums but that's about all I want to do with it.

But everyone is turning into... "why don't you have a myspace acct yet?"

MY REPLY: WHY??? What's the big deal?

Anyone else avoiding MYSPACE?

Daylily · #2 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:12 PM

I'm not on it!

Hot dog · #3 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:18 PM

Never been and just found out today it was for adults only I only ever heard kids speaking about it so thought that was who was often there now I find out they aren't supposed to be Just heard about a kid at my children's school (church affiliated) that got kicked out because of everything she was saying about herself there and the pictures she posted.

frugalmomof1 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:24 PM

I'm on it...I have 'found' a lot of old high school friends that way!

safari · #5 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:29 PM

I don't see the point in it either. I think a lot of people use it for online dating. Musicians use it to promote their songs. Other people might find some other value in it, but there is nothing in it for me. I also hate how they allow people use their own HTML, which messes up a lot of pages. In addition to ugly pages that take a while to load, MySpace is also full of all kinds of viruses. I try to avoid visiting MySpace because of that. By the way, it was selected as the world's worst website by the PC World Magazine http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12...s/article.html

tinapbeana · #6 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:29 PM

not i... high school wasn't the highlight of my life, and quite honestly there aren't many folks that i'd have a lot in common with even if i did find them on myspace/classmates, whatever...

and what with working, eating, sleeping, pretending to clean my house, savingadvice.com, the cigar store, reading a book a day, and DH, when would i fit it in? sitting on the toilet? hehehe, who am i kidding, that's book time!

boefixepa · #7 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:39 PM

Never been there, never plan to go. No need. No desire.

shelbylovesmelby · #8 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinapbeana

not i... high school wasn't the highlight of my life, and quite honestly there aren't many folks that i'd have a lot in common with even if i did find them on myspace/classmates, whatever...

DITO! The gals in charge of our class reunion gave out booklets with peoples info address ect. & they set up a forum & no one has posted on there in atleast 2 yrs.

fairy74 · #9 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 03:20 PM

I love it, for networking and keeping in touch with friends in WA, OR, MA and FL. Emails great, but this is nice if you just want to throw a have a happy day comment out there...

beebop25blue25 · #10 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 04:35 PM

I know nothing about it. How do you look up people? How to you join groups, etc, etc!

ithaca · #11 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 04:40 PM

Totally love it. Very easy to log in and say hi to a few friends, and a pretty convenient way to see how my younger cousins are growing up across the country. Plus I've even had a few high school/elementary school friends that I hadn't seen in 10+ years say hi and catch up on a few things. Just a cool site where you can be goofy, creative, whatever you want it to be. LOL @ "hype".

sparkysgirl · #12 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 04:44 PM

yep I'm on it.. keeps me in touch with friends that are serving in Iraq! also a nice way for my nieces to "talk to me" without having to do it face to face.. It's kind of nice being there for her.

rags2riches · #13 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 04:59 PM

Don't have a myspace...seems like a fad to me.

debtfreeme · #14 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 05:42 PM

i am. I have never visited the site and won't

ChimbleySweep · #15 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 05:55 PM

I have one, but only for meeting up with old friends. I don't blog there. I don't do much of anything there, really. I don't really like how self-obsessed a lot of the members (it's mostly the teenagers) there seem, with their crappy cell-phone photos of themselves all made up. I'm into real people, not people trying to be something they're not!

Broken Arrow · #16 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 06:28 PM

Not me either. Just not something that ever tickled my fancy.

Hez · #17 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 07:15 PM

I have a MySpace but I rarely use it, only to view other people's photos since you need an account to do so. Facebook, on the other hand, is something I use often and am completely addicted to. It's just so handy & unlike MySpace, I don't have to deal with annoying bands I've never heard of trying to add me.

tabbycat31 · #18 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 07:31 PM

I'm on it, and have regained touch with a lot of old friends.

Facebook is something that I refuse to do because I will not reveal my school.

Hez · #19 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 07:34 PM

Tabbycat, in the past little while (a few months I think) Facebook has changed so that you don't need to provide your school to sign up. You can use your city, and I've seen people who have "no network" so I think you might not even need that.

tabbycat31 · #20 (**permalink**) 01-09-2007, 07:36 PM

I don't reveal my city either.