Gunderson: Remember, Myspace introduced the world to this:

I'd hit that.....don't care if she's invested with STD's not yet classified by the CDC.

Kalashinator: jso2897: boobsrgood: I do not trust anyone with the last name of Boyd.

/nor should you

What is it with you Farkers and your Irish-hate? If you aren't picking on the Boyds, you're picking on the Morans.

What Boyds may look like:


/hot like mostaccioli

+1 to you sir

/wants to stand on top of Scorcese's head.

DarthBrooks 2009-07-03 09:37:21 AM
Wait - you don't LIKE my jet-black background with purple text over a scrolling image of mating unicorns while Alice in Chains plays at +11 during the onLoad?

Nail? Hammer.
Hammer? Nail.

bunner: UNC_Samurai: Myspace's only purpose in life will be to remind us of what Geocities looked like after it's shut down by Yahoo.

Oh my... does anybody remember.. what was that site..?

Something city or town or whatever and the GUI was like all these windows and you clicked on one and it took you to your "neighbourhood" where your easy to generate page was?

There was a neighbourhood for everything. Fanboys, schoolgirls, TeeVee show addicts. The one for musicians was "Tin Pan Alley".

FortuneCity?

pwn3d781: FortuneCity?

HA!

Thank you. : )

bunner: tetsoushima: Insane Clown Posse cover bands

that may be the lamest thing on god's green earth.

You would think, but you would be wrong.

Wasn't Myspace always considered juvenile and immature? I remember getting on there about 3-4 years ago, when Myspace was all the rage amongst high schoolers, and was becoming famous for creepy pedophiles picking up high school girls. I deleted my account several days later.

And I think we all remember what happened to Friendster. Speaking of immature, despite Facebook's supposed maturity, why do I keep getting silly app-generated requests for baby farm animals, virtual drinks and the like?

So I have the choice between a site where I can connect with friends in an easy manner, never have any screwups, annoying ads, password hacks, phishing scams, annoying music playing that I cant turn off, goofy flashing shiat I have no control over, text I cant read on a background I cant see.....or a site where when I go to it it instantly shows me what my friends are doing, whats going on with them, with black text on a plain white background and rarely ever any f-up's?

Yeah, I'll definitely take the latter please.

Oh wait, I did. I've been Myspace free for 3 years now.

So the article is saying that:

White people are well educated and like clean, organized layouts that are arranged in a manner such that you can actually read the profiles...

Black people are solely interested in embedded music, videos, and gifs, e-bling that screams for attention and ultimately makes the page slow, obnoxious, and unworkable.

Yep, that sounds like a reflection of society at large.

(Trolling, am I doing it right?)

Any socioeconomic disparity is probably related to the fact that Facebook began as a tool for people who are in college. It continues to be anchored by this group. People with post-high school education are less likely to be poor and are more likely to climb the socioeconomic ladder a bit.

Myspace is not the ghetto of the internet, it's the digital herpes and crabs and HIV and Hep C infested hooker of the internet.

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Just had a jehovah's witness knock on my door, about a minute and a half ago. Before I closed the door on them, I asked if she had a MySpace or FaceBook page. She said, "FaceBook."
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/snort

bunner: Something city or town or whatever and the GUI was like all these windows and you clicked on one and it took you to your "neighbourhood" where your easy to generate page was?

GeoCities?

bunner: pwn3d781: FortuneCity?

HA!

Thank you. : )

For some reason, that was the one free Web host that had no appeal to me, and I don't remember why. Maybe because Tripod and XOOM and WebJump were good enough that I could get by with their hosting plans.

Ah, the olden days of the Intertubes, when good things were free and turning a profit was overrated.

Gunderson: Remember, Myspace introduced the world to this:

For that, its makers shall burn in hell. Which is now apparently Myspace.

Yes, digital "white flight" is some kind of crack across the face of society.

When will Facebook end its vicious "no coloreds" policy?

PJ_the_Barbarian: Yes, digital "white flight" is some kind of crack across the face of society.

When will Facebook end its vicious "no coloreds" policy?

If you log in really late, you can use the water fountain and nobody yells at you.

headstone: Gunderson: Remember, Myspace introduced the world to this:

tila-tequila.jpg
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MySpace invented fake tits?
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And poorly masked pock-marked crater face. Two for one!

And his motherboard cries...

ObscureNameHere: headstone: Gunderson: Remember, Myspace introduced the world to this:

tila-tequila.jpg
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MySpace invented fake tits?
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And poorly masked pock-marked crater face. Two for one!
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And hair so stiff, you can hear it. Trifecta...
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Myspace has been a digital ghetto for the last couple of years. But this whole "if you migrated to Facebook you are white, if you stayed with Myspace you are black or brown" stuff is B.S. - Myspace is 99% spammers.
Spammers come in all crayola shades.

bigpeeler: Here's proof that the author (Danah Boyd) isn't prejudiced. She has a black friend.

She's laid more carpet than Sears

headstone: So if MySpace is "Ghetto", then does it follow that FaceBook is "Trailer Park"?

Sounds about right. People living actual interesting lives don't usually tweet, blog, or put a webpage up about them.

bigpeeler: Here's proof that the author (Danah Boyd) isn't prejudiced. She has a black friend.

She looks like an annoying hipster coont.

You know, if you're gonna whore attention, you can probably distract people, briefly, from your endless sense of self-importance by writing about a site that people use to whore attention.

Bacontastesgood: headstone: So if MySpace is "Ghetto", then does it follow that FaceBook is "Trailer Park"?

Sounds about right. People living actual interesting lives don't usually tweet, blog, or put a webpage up about them.

Disagree (you're welcome) (new window)

Biness: Disagree (you're welcome) (new window)

God shall smite thee for that.

I think the author is right- did you even notice the way that Facebook always wears polo shirts and MySpace has those baggy pants with the underwear showing?

//Ugh- race and class in the US are frequently overlapping, but not coterminous...//

I think the shift from myspace to facebook is also partly an age thing. All the bells and whistles of my space tend to satisfy junior high appetites. As people on myspace get older (and as older people realize they should join a networking site and look for a place to go), they want something with more content and fewer glittery butterflies. Plus the screeching emo music that plays every time you open up those kids' pages makes me want to gouge my eardrums out with a fondue fork.

headstone: Oscar

I always thought the name "Friendster" made it sound like a creepy social site for pedos...

The same thing has been said much more often about myspace



Hotter than even her

Biness: Bacontastesgood: headstone: So if MySpace is "Ghetto", then does it follow that FaceBook is "Trailer Park"?

Sounds about right. People living actual interesting lives don't usually tweet, blog, or put a webpage up about them.

Disagree (you're welcome) (new window)
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After pointing at the link to check the address, I was expecting a new bizarre flavor of squirrel porn. And I guess, in a manner of speaking, it was...

Myspace: irrelevant.
facebook: irrelevant.
Twitter: irrelevant. (BAWWWW some more, asswipes. Truth hurts.)

If the internet is your single, solitary tool for communication, you will not get anywhere in life. Period.

kirishima: BAWWWW

you sound edgy

bunner: You know, if you're gonna whore attention, you can probably distract people, briefly, from your endless sense of self-importance by writing about a site that people use to whore attention.
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That made my head hurt, a little...
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/An attention whore
//attention-whoring
//by writing about
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Bad lyrics ftw...

1) work at Harvard
2) Call anything racist
3) Profit!

Karmadrome: glad to see they got something right in that article though "...And Macs are more cultured than PCs."

THIS

If this is satire then how do all of you explain the presence of the latino myspace?

Wow the author of that one is an asshat. Myspace has all the cutting edge web design of 1996. Same friggin' functionality for the most part, myspace is just annoying so most people don't use it.

These people who constantly play the race card are the ones who keep it in play. They make that kinda crap worse by shoving it down people's throats.

KidKorporate: If this is satire then how do all of you explain the presence of the latino myspace?
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andrewhy: Wasn't Myspace always considered juvenile and immature? I remember getting on there about 3-4 years ago, when Myspace was all the rage amongst high schoolers, and was becoming famous for creepy pedophiles picking up high school girls. I deleted my account several days later.

And I think we all remember what happened to Friendster. Speaking of immature, despite Facebook's supposed maturity, why do I keep getting silly app-generated requests for baby farm animals, virtual drinks and the like?

There's a block button. Apply liberally.

Biness: Bacontastesgood: headstone: So if MySpace is "Ghetto", then does it follow that FaceBook is "Trailer Park"?

Sounds about right. People living actual interesting lives don't usually tweet, blog, or put a webpage up about them.

Disagree (you're welcome) (new window)

I love this:

Winterstar: Biness: Bacontastesgood: headstone: So if MySpace is "Ghetto", then does it follow that FaceBook is "Trailer Park"?

Sounds about right. People living actual interesting lives don't usually tweet, blog, or put a webpage up about them.

Disagree (you're welcome) (new window)

I love this:

Yea, that Squirrel News Network sure is up to date

Man, I don't know what yall be talkin about

Danah Boyd gave this talk at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC last month.

Full text, for anyone who cares to read it, is available here:

http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/PDF2009.html

I left myspace because the damn thing would make me type in my unwieldy password that they gave me every time I tried to log in. My computer could remember every other password out there that I have, but not that one? I got tired of looking it up and went to facebook, which is something my friends were asking me to do anyway.

A new fangled white flight? Are only white people doing this or something?

Where does Second Life fit into all of this?

A relation was telling me how great it is and how she spends every day after work on it. It sounded really creepy and more than a little pathetic.

felixecho: I left myspace because the damn thing would make me type in my unwieldy password that they gave me every time I tried to log in

Um...you never changed the password? Never personalized it? Seriously? And you're blaming THAT on MySpace?!?

What do you mean 'now'?

felixecho: I left myspace because the damn thing would make me type in my unwieldy password that they gave me every time I tried to log in. My computer could remember every other password out there that I have, but not that one? I got tired of looking it up and went to facebook, which is something my friends were asking me to do anyway.

A new fangled white flight? Are only white people doing this or something?

Yep. This is the facebook policy:


Does this mean facebook is going to have its own Rosa Parks?

Biness: felixecho: I left myspace because the damn thing would make me type in my unwieldy password that they gave me every time I tried to log in. My computer could remember every other password out there that I have, but not that one? I got tired of looking it up and went to facebook, which is something my friends were asking me to do anyway.

A new fangled white flight? Are only white people doing this or something?

Yep. This is the facebook policy:


Does this mean facebook is going to have its own Rosa Parks?

Wow, so you were in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada yesterday?

For me, I mainly got sick of getting ear-raped whenever I visited the MySpace pages of other people. No, I don't want to hear your tastes in shiatty music at full volume whenever I try to view your profile.

Top that off with unreadable page designs that makes Geocities look tame, and you start to see why I haven't logged in there in a while.

And don't get me started on the third circle of hell that is the MySpace forums......