Myspace: Good or Bad?

[Aly Liz]

Should internet chatrooms be shutdown? Regulated?

What about myspace?

Just wondering what the public thinks considering the media has made such an ordeal of it.

[BugMan]

Should internet chatrooms be shutdown? Regulated?

What about myspace?

Just wondering what the public thinks considering the media has made such an ordeal of it.
My kids all 3 use both Xanga and MySpace.

I think it's a fad, and will settle into the background soon, but I see no harm in them.

[::Major_Baker::]

My kids all 3 use both Xanga and MySpace.

I think it's a fad, and will settle into the background soon, but I see no harm in them.
Make sure you know what kind of info they are putting on here.
We had a guy fly from atlanta to MN to hook up with A 15 YEAR old that he found on myspace. And yes he sexually assaulted her too.

[JoeR]

The Daily Show had a great segment about Myspace.

[AgentM]

I have a MySpace profile/blog. I think it's a cool site. I especially like the access bands/music that they have there.

[BugMan]

Make sure you know what kind of info they are putting on here.
We had a guy fly from atlanta to MN to hook up with A 15 YEAR old that he found on myspace. And yes he sexually assaulted her too.
I watch that very closely.

Our two sons are actually out on a West Coast Tour with a Christian Rock band right now. We're able to keep up with them that way. Our daughter has hers set so that you have to be in her "friends" list to get any personal information.

There certainly are dangers, but overall, I think MySpace & Xanga are okay.


By the way, do you live in Minnesota? Our oldest son used to live in St Paul...

[::Major_Baker::]

I watch that very closely.

Our two sons are actually out on a West Coast Tour with a Christian Rock band right now. We're able to keep up with them that way. Our daughter has hers set so that you have to be in her "friends" list to get any personal information.

There certainly are dangers, but overall, I think MySpace & Xanga are okay.


By the way, do you live in Minnesota? Our oldest son used to live in St Paul...
Good thing you are aware of the risks.
Do you ever talk to her about who she is adding as friends? And by no means should any personal info like phone #'s or addresses go on there.

Yes I live in Minneapolis right now.

[BugMan]

Good thing you are aware of the risks.
Do you ever talk to her about who she is adding as friends? And by no means should any personal info like phone #'s or addresses go on there.

Yes I live in Minneapolis right now.
Actually, yes. We've had some rather "heated" discussions about this - if you know what I mean!

And dad won... ;)

[Duo_Maxwell]

Should internet chatrooms be shutdown? Regulated?

What about myspace?

Just wondering what the public thinks considering the media has made such an ordeal of it.

Myspace is only as good as those who use it. Same as democracy, same for virtually everything in this world.

The media needs a scapegoat. Myspace just got the raw deal. Chatrooms should be regulated by those who run them.

[julierep]

Make sure you know what kind of info they are putting on here.
We had a guy fly from atlanta to MN to hook up with A 15 YEAR old that he found on myspace. And yes he sexually assaulted her too.

Yep. This happened to a lady's daughter in my class. She was not sexually assaulted but she gave every bit of personally information so that anyone could find her if they wanted, very easily. They had to change their phone #'s because of this.

[Ed Sane]

You cant really regulate things like MySpace. The problem is with its users, and ineffecient parenting when it comes to technology. Companies should be responsible to a point but not when it comes from misuse of a product.

If someone were to regulate MySpace such standards would apply here as well. Its by far easier and less gov. intrusion to simlpy educate the public. Which lately the media has seen fit to do.

[el nopal]

Here are 50987489574983758487590847358947 Questions that you should NOT answer: Why do you like Myspace: Posted by some one you will soon hate. Someone who used to be your friend, but because they continually sent COUNTLESS STUPID BULLETINS listing their most secret retarded perversions and trivial information in the form of ANSWERS to question, you decided to stop using Myspace, and realized they were all idots needing to entertain idiotic fantasies:

1. It's the only way to email people right now.... I don't know why.

2.The music SUCKS! I hate it.

3.Everyone sucks!

4. Myspace sucks!

5.I hate Myspace!

6.It's the spawn of evil corporate ponzai schematico baseless nonsensical crappy narcissistic margarine infested corpuscules of DOOM!

7. The pictures of scantily clad women ROCK!- Reality: Strung out coke heads with lingerie and a camera, no imagination required.

8. The pictures of male models ROCK!- Reality: crazy ugly overweight psychos....

9. The pictures of "doomed" looking youth, with too much dark side time on their hands.

10. The horny guy, who looks up your zipcode.

11. The horny girl who is shy.

12. The addicted myspace person who thinks they are SO artistic, because after they smoke enough PCP, anything technical is so freakin easy. they can't tell you how many photo bucket images they put on their myspace page today- because they all just looked so crystal clear and they have no concept of time or themselves!

13. More beer please, come on, I love the photos of no context drunkenness....

14. My flat stomach, next to your hairy engorged stomach.

15. EMOS

16. elves and clowns use TRIBE.net. They are smart enough to stay away from the cultural office space mentality of Myspace... The office pervert who goes home at the end of the work day to spend all their time in a virtual world of "prey on display."

17. Because Myspace allows anyone to become someone else in a virtual messed up world.

18. I like Myspace because it allows me to mess with conartists....

19. I'm bored, lets try Myspace, so I can feel like I'm getting into trouble!

20. Take the stupidest QUiZZEs you can't even think up on your own, and then post it on your page so that people can see HOW you wasted your time....

21. Come on, log in again so you can waste more time, and see more bull****.

22. Because I like to waste the precious quality of life I am given on a web forum that won't get me anywhere, unless I am a crappy musician, or I need to go to another party, or hang out with friends I don't even want to talk to....

[nogoodname90]

This is stupider then parents use video games as a scape goat. Parents listien here
DONT BLAME MYSPACE WHEN YOUR KID GETS RAPED BY SOME GUY SHE MET OF MYSPACE ITS YOUR FAULT UR A MORRON AND DIDNT REGULATE THE SITE

my imput im just tired of idiots getting paid from stupid law suites like mc donalds being sued for some fat chick spilling coffe on her self

[el nopal]

This is stupider then parents use video games as a scape goat. Parents listien here
DONT BLAME MYSPACE WHEN YOUR KID GETS RAPED BY SOME GUY SHE MET OF MYSPACE ITS YOUR FAULT UR A MORRON AND DIDNT REGULATE THE SITE

my imput im just tired of idiots getting paid from stupid law suites like mc donalds being sued for some fat chick spilling coffe on her self


Wait, were you that guy who messaged me on Myspace the other day?
I could have sworn your grammar was just as bad as this guys, and I distinctly see the similarity in attitude expression!

Wow, this is exciting....

[BugMan]

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here, because this post makes absolutely no sense to me...


Here are 50987489574983758487590847358947 Questions that you should NOT answer: Why do you like Myspace: Posted by some one you will soon hate. Someone who used to be your friend, but because they continually sent COUNTLESS STUPID BULLETINS listing their most secret retarded perversions and trivial information in the form of ANSWERS to question, you decided to stop using Myspace, and realized they were all idots needing to entertain idiotic fantasies:

1. It's the only way to email people right now.... I don't know why.

2.The music SUCKS! I hate it.

3.Everyone sucks!

4. Myspace sucks!

5.I hate Myspace!

6.It's the spawn of evil corporate ponzai schematico baseless nonsensical crappy narcissistic margarine infested corpuscules of DOOM!

7. The pictures of scantily clad women ROCK!- Reality: Strung out coke heads with lingerie and a camera, no imagination required.

8. The pictures of male models ROCK!- Reality: crazy ugly overweight psychos....

9. The pictures of "doomed" looking youth, with too much dark side time on their hands.

10. The horny guy, who looks up your zipcode.

11. The horny girl who is shy.

12. The addicted myspace person who thinks they are SO artistic, because after they smoke enough PCP, anything technical is so freakin easy. they can't tell you how many photo bucket images they put on their myspace page today- because they all just looked so crystal clear and they have no concept of time or themselves!

13. More beer please, come on, I love the photos of no context drunkenness....

14. My flat stomach, next to your hairy engorged stomach.

15. EMOS

16. elves and clowns use TRIBE.net. They are smart enough to stay away from the cultural office space mentality of Myspace... The office pervert who goes home at the end of the work day to spend all their time in a virtual world of "prey on display."

17. Because Myspace allows anyone to become someone else in a virtual messed up world.

18. I like Myspace because it allows me to mess with conartists....

19. I'm bored, lets try Myspace, so I can feel like I'm getting into trouble!

20. Take the stupidest QUiZZEs you can't even think up on your own, and then post it on your page so that people can see HOW you wasted your time....

21. Come on, log in again so you can waste more time, and see more bull****.

22. Because I like to waste the precious quality of life I am given on a web forum that won't get me anywhere, unless I am a crappy musician, or I need to go to another party, or hang out with friends I don't even want to talk to....

[Confucius]

For me, Myspace isnt anythin really exciting, I couldnt raise an eyebrow for it. But ah, oh well, if dats what kids wanna use dats there business.

[poly_nightmare]

MySpace is evil. I hate that thing. I had to block at school becaues it would slow down the internet a lot. I swear every student who was at a computer was checking the site. It shouldn't have taken me 5 minutes for a thread on Whistlestopper to load.

In one week, there was about 1 million hits on the site for the school.

[BugMan]

MySpace is evil. I hate that thing. I had to block at school becaues it would slow down the internet a lot. I swear every student who was at a computer was checking the site. It shouldn't have taken me 5 minutes for a thread on Whistlestopper to load.

In one week, there was about 1 million hits on the site for the school.
That brings up an interesting point, doesn't it?

Kids should NOT be on MySpace & MSN Messenger at school. Period.

[poly_nightmare]

That brings up an interesting point, doesn't it?

Kids should NOT be on MySpace & MSN Messenger at school. Period.

I basically blocked everything fun.

[prst31]

I keep in touch with friends that are spread about the country and blog a bit on it. It's good for keeping in touch with the local music scene as well. Kids that use it for a dating site or adults that use it for a dating can be a problem but not because of the site, because of people using it in a poor and distasteful manner. But I agree, at school it should be outlawed. That goes for any chat room, forum etc...

[JoeR]

Kids should NOT be on MySpace & MSN Messenger at school. Period.

I don't think anyone should use MSN Messenger. It is a piece of crap.

[Confucius]

MySpace is evil. I hate that thing. I had to block at school becaues it would slow down the internet a lot. I swear every student who was at a computer was checking the site. It shouldn't have taken me 5 minutes for a thread on Whistlestopper to load.

In one week, there was about 1 million hits on the site for the school.

A million hits, holy bugger muffins. Thats alot. But ah. Why are you lookin on WS on the job :p

[el nopal]

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here, because this post makes absolutely no sense to me...


Yes, your missing the point.

The post I created is a reflection of what you will find on Myspace if you read what anyone reads on Myspace.

[Aly Liz]

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here, because this post makes absolutely no sense to me...


yeah i dont get it either. i read it over about 5 times and the only thing i realized the 5th time was that it was a waste of time.

[el nopal]

yeah i dont get it either. i read it over about 5 times and the only thing i realized the 5th time was that it was a waste of time.

Congratulations, you got the point.

[Aly Liz]

Congratulations, you got the point.

Myspace isnt like that at all.

[::Major_Baker::]

Myspace isnt like that at all.
Myspace is better than Yourspace. YourSpace is lame.

[Aly Liz]

Myspace is better than Yourspace. YourSpace is lame.

haha. wow. i dont even know what to say to that.

[BugMan]

Myspace is better than Yourspace. YourSpace is lame.
Yeah, but MyDad can beat up YourDad any day.

[::Major_Baker::]

haha. wow. i dont even know what to say to that.
just use a soft answer, to turn away wrath.

[el nopal]

just use a soft answer, to turn away wrath.

Mywrath is way more volatile than any of your wrath, and your myspace friend's wrath included, punk!

Speaking of Myspace... I can talk to anyone on there, and my messages don't get check by the server.....

I emailed my friend in Ankara, and what do you know- my account was disabled for half the day, and now I get email messages "late."
What do you think Major??? Is my mail being read for me?

[::Major_Baker::]

Mywrath is way more volatile than any of your wrath, and your myspace friend's wrath included, punk!

Speaking of Myspace... I can talk to anyone on there, and my messages don't get check by the server.....

I emailed my friend in Ankara, and what do you know- my account was disabled for half the day, and now I get email messages "late."
What do you think Major??? Is my mail being read for me?

Perhaps the government saw what you wrote about disabling the US's power grid system and though it was some sort of threat or something silly. Who knows...

[el nopal]

Perhaps the government saw what you wrote about disabling the US's power grid system and though it was some sort of threat or something silly. Who knows...


Oh yeah? Prove I wrote that..... cause I forgot if I wrote it, and where?

[::Major_Baker::]

Oh yeah? Prove I wrote that..... cause I forgot if I wrote it, and where?
Those details are not important.
you are now logged in a database.

See how hard it will be next time you try to purchase more fertilizer and detonator caps; you are "terror", in the war on terror, our records show.

[Ed Sane]

Out of pure boredom well i was on Myspace earlier today I decided to search the term el nopal. Dont click the red button...

Not sure if its your myspace or not but man red buttons freak me out.

[nogoodname90]

Wait, were you that guy who messaged me on Myspace the other day?
I could have sworn your grammar was just as bad as this guys, and I distinctly see the similarity in attitude expression!

Wow, this is exciting....nope not me and so i cant be angry ?Cause you know its a pretty common attitude expression and i did'nt spell to many words wronge so be quite for crying out loud you can understand it cant you. Why not instead of ignoring my spelling you listen to my comment

[Aly Liz]

just use a soft answer, to turn away wrath.

Low blow. Your pathetic.

[::Major_Baker::]

Low blow. Your pathetic.
Now Ali,
That would be 'you're pathetic'...but really, that is not a very soft answer.....Come on now, practice what you preach! You wouldn't want to stir up any anger here, now would you? :lol:

[Aly Liz]

Now Ali,
That would be 'you're pathetic'...but really, that is not a very soft answer.....Come on now, practice what you preach! You wouldn't want to stir up any anger here, now would you? :lol:

That would be Aly. And im not trying to stir up anything. Just stating the obvious.

[::Major_Baker::]

That would be Aly. And im not trying to stir up anything. Just stating the obvious.
Sorry, Aly.
I'm sure you meant pathetic in a nice way.

[el nopal]

This thread Sucks (and blows) MORE than Myspace.

[Reverb]

I find Myspace to be handy and fun. The people that inhavit the political groups are lacking in the intelligence department; but I guess you cant have everything.

[Aly Liz]

Sorry, Aly.
I'm sure you meant pathetic in a nice way.

Always. :)

[Aly Liz]

This thread Sucks (and blows) MORE than Myspace.

Then quit posting lame crap and let it die out.

[el nopal]

Then quit posting lame crap and let it die out.

ah... you first....

[Aly Liz]

ah... you first....

thats a negative.

[el nopal]

thats a negative.

What's a negative?

[gowachin]

Overall, MySpace has been a positive experience for me.

It helps me keep in fairly constant contact with friends far away from me (California & Hawaii). It helped me meet people to hang-out with when I first moved to Mass. I have gotten back intouch with five friends who I haven't spoken to in 15 years. And one of my favorite musicians (Matthew Sweet) is one of my "friends".

I do find most of the "bulletins" to be really, really lame and annoying. Most of the bands I have listened on the site have been crappy.

I do agree that parents should pay attention to what their kids are doing on it. Though, it is a great way for parents to find out what their kids are up to. There are many parents who would find out that their 15 year-old daughter is a lesbian and smokes about an ounce of weed a week, if they checked the kid out on MySpace!

It's certainly not inhenrently evil, and it shouldn't be shut down.

[Commmunity X]

As dangers lurk on the Internet with cyber stockers and identity theft these issues are not to be taken lightly. What often gets over looked is all the personal information that we put in our personal profiles on the slew of social networking sites. Have you stop to think seriously who really looking at that information? Who’s behind these sites and what’s in it for them?

As companies seek new and inventive ways to market their products, the Internet has been the next logical step for product placement. As many of us are too young to recall at the dawn of the television advertiser used television programming to push their products. Ever thought why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas?

When MySpace was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, this essentially open the door to 64 million personal profiles and information that can tell advertisers what music you listen to, what you like to do in your past time, and all other personal interest. Do you really want marketing firms hounding you about products you probably really don’t need?

Seek the truth, seek why things are and not take it at just face value. Community X will lead you to that answer no one wants to give you.

Community X
<<< MOD EDIT - ADVERTISING >>>

[::Major_Baker::]

As dangers lurk on the Internet with cyber stockers and identity theft these issues are not to be taken lightly. What often gets over looked is all the personal information that we put in our personal profiles on the slew of social networking sites. Have you stop to think seriously who really looking at that information? Who’s behind these sites and what’s in it for them?

As companies seek new and inventive ways to market their products, the Internet has been the next logical step for product placement. As many of us are too young to recall at the dawn of the television advertiser used television programming to push their products. Ever thought why daytime dramas are called Soap Operas?

When MySpace was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, this essentially open the door to 64 million personal profiles and information that can tell advertisers what music you listen to, what you like to do in your past time, and all other personal interest. Do you really want marketing firms hounding you about products you probably really don’t need?

Seek the truth, seek why things are and not take it at just face value. Community X will lead you to that answer no one wants to give you.

Community X
<<< MOD EDIT - ADVERTISING >>>
how clever, and advertisment, inside a post regarding advertisments.
Wait, I'm confused.

Is there no privacy agreement when you sign onto myspace and create a profile?

[Simba]

Here are 50987489574983758487590847358947 Questions that you should NOT answer: Why do you like Myspace: Posted by some one you will soon hate. Someone who used to be your friend, but because they continually sent COUNTLESS STUPID BULLETINS listing their most secret retarded perversions and trivial information in the form of ANSWERS to question, you decided to stop using Myspace, and realized they were all idots needing to entertain idiotic fantasies:

1. It's the only way to email people right now.... I don't know why.

2.The music SUCKS! I hate it.

3.Everyone sucks!

4. Myspace sucks!

5.I hate Myspace!

6.It's the spawn of evil corporate ponzai schematico baseless nonsensical crappy narcissistic margarine infested corpuscules of DOOM!

7. The pictures of scantily clad women ROCK!- Reality: Strung out coke heads with lingerie and a camera, no imagination required.

8. The pictures of male models ROCK!- Reality: crazy ugly overweight psychos....

9. The pictures of "doomed" looking youth, with too much dark side time on their hands.

10. The horny guy, who looks up your zipcode.

11. The horny girl who is shy.

12. The addicted myspace person who thinks they are SO artistic, because after they smoke enough PCP, anything technical is so freakin easy. they can't tell you how many photo bucket images they put on their myspace page today- because they all just looked so crystal clear and they have no concept of time or themselves!

13. More beer please, come on, I love the photos of no context drunkenness....

14. My flat stomach, next to your hairy engorged stomach.

15. EMOS

16. elves and clowns use TRIBE.net. They are smart enough to stay away from the cultural office space mentality of Myspace... The office pervert who goes home at the end of the work day to spend all their time in a virtual world of "prey on display."

17. Because Myspace allows anyone to become someone else in a virtual messed up world.

18. I like Myspace because it allows me to mess with conartists....

19. I'm bored, lets try Myspace, so I can feel like I'm getting into trouble!

20. Take the stupidest QUiZZEs you can't even think up on your own, and then post it on your page so that people can see HOW you wasted your time....

21. Come on, log in again so you can waste more time, and see more bull****.

22. Because I like to waste the precious quality of life I am given on a web forum that won't get me anywhere, unless I am a crappy musician, or I need to go to another party, or hang out with friends I don't even want to talk to....


Over time, I have come to celebrate how curiously interesting, yet very precise and cerebral are some of your posts. Though humorous, the above is one of those. I agree with ever point, while laughing.

[Strucky]

Myspace isn't a bad site...If you know what your doing.I joined the site about a week ago to look for old friends.I also discovered some very good music I was able to download.I've been i've been in contact with bands like Sepultura,Fozzy,Behind The Scenery,This Solemn Vow,Megadeth and Slayer.

I hope my begging them to do USO shows at Camp Anaconda work...I hate country music,thats all we get in our USO shows :mad:

[el nopal]

Overall, MySpace has been a positive experience for me.

It helps me keep in fairly constant contact with friends far away from me (California & Hawaii). It helped me meet people to hang-out with when I first moved to Mass. I have gotten back intouch with five friends who I haven't spoken to in 15 years. And one of my favorite musicians (Matthew Sweet) is one of my "friends".

I do find most of the "bulletins" to be really, really lame and annoying. Most of the bands I have listened on the site have been crappy.

I do agree that parents should pay attention to what their kids are doing on it. Though, it is a great way for parents to find out what their kids are up to. There are many parents who would find out that their 15 year-old daughter is a lesbian and smokes about an ounce of weed a week, if they checked the kid out on MySpace!

It's certainly not inhenrently evil, and it shouldn't be shut down.

Did any of the people you recently got back in touch with ever call you? Did they express an interest in meeting or perhaps reuniting? I mean to ask: did you meet them in person eventually?

[gowachin]

Did any of the people you recently got back in touch with ever call you? Did they express an interest in meeting or perhaps reuniting? I mean to ask: did you meet them in person eventually?

Holas el nopal,

All of the people I have gotten back intouch with (high school friends) have expressed a desire to reunite. One even offered me work. I have not called (or have been called) by anyone from MySpace, but have talked, by phone, to an old friend that is not on MySpace, but knows someone who is, that I know.

I have met, in real life, one person that I met totally thru MySpace. She and I hung-out on New Years Eve and are now good friends.

Unfortunatly, I have not met, in person, Matthew Sweet... but would certainly like to!

[el nopal]

Holas el nopal,

All of the people I have gotten back intouch with (high school friends) have expressed a desire to reunite. One even offered me work. I have not called (or have been called) by anyone from MySpace, but have talked, by phone, to an old friend that is not on MySpace, but knows someone who is, that I know.

I have met, in real life, one person that I met totally thru MySpace. She and I hung-out on New Years Eve and are now good friends.

Unfortunatly, I have not met, in person, Matthew Sweet... but would certainly like to!


Igualmente Gowachin, sounds cool. Glad people contacted you in person. My experience was not so great with Myspace. I think it's just Rupert Mudoch's big experiment.

[Heathcliff]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70675-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

According to his MySpace page, the 41-year-old San Bruno, California, resident is single, a Sagittarius, a nonsmoker and nondrinker, and counts an online stripper among his six friends. But California's online database of registered sex offenders offers a different profile of the same man: convictions for forced sodomy, oral sex and "lewd and lascivious acts" -- all with a person under the age of 14.

A 22-year-old man in San Francisco comes off as a typical college student on MySpace, professing a love for beat poetry, nature and obscure coffee house bands. His profile doesn't mention that he's a convicted child molester.

[el nopal]

The article also states the current base of users is approaching the combined populations of (Oh my god, the sky is falling) proportions: 70 million people already?

This is crazy! I'm so glad I left.

[AgentM]

70 million people

70 million?? Holy crap. That's over twice the population of my country. No wonder their servers slow down sometimes.

[Tokyoman]

The dreaded Winfixer virus lurks on MySpace. Hope you've all got anti-virus software.

Personally I think it's one big market research exercise.

[el nopal]

The dreaded Winfixer virus lurks on MySpace. Hope you've all got anti-virus software.

Personally I think it's one big market research exercise.

It is.

It is the future of crappy communication and control, with bonus virtual STDs. (socially Transmitted Diseases).