My favorite part of MySpace is how people can be duplicitous - providing a persona (out of view of their parents, "RL" friends, church family, etc.) that completely clashes with their "public" face. I've seen this long before MySpace, where people were able to be complete jerks online, but didn't have the intestinal fortitude to step up and act the same way in person. MySpace just makes it that much easier.
My second favorite part of MySpace is how people use membership of their friends list. When you're nice, you can be on someone's friends list. Yay - we're friends! But ooh, I better not make you grumpy cause you can punish me! You'll remove me from your friends list! Boo - we're not friends. But of course, you can't TELL me directly - as per point one above, you don't have the guts to say something to me.
All in all, I "love" MySpace because it reminds me of that place we all want to live for the rest of our lives: high school. All of the games, all of the gossip, all of the false importance, all of the facades. Thanks, MySpace - you're the best!
Posted by pcg at April 13, 2006 8:29 AMI've never been able to even be sarcastic about MySpace. It's just horrible.
Posted by: Topher on April 13, 2006 12:31 PMI've never really understood MySpace or why it's important. I don't get how it "works" or what you're supposed to do there, apart from building up your friends list.
However - if you're in a band, you ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE a MySpace account. I don't know why this is, and fortunately, I don't have to deal with it, Todd works on it. According to our MySpace, we're friends with Wilco. I guess that's fine by me.
Posted by: jonathan on April 14, 2006 5:29 AM