Facebook, MySpace et al (aka the 'Geez I'm just old' thread)

Yes, keeping in touch with college friends is "weird."

 

After reading the posts on here, I see myspace et al might not be all of what I think/know it to be.

To whoever (whomever?) mentioned bands, my apologies, I forgot about that. My friend is an entertainment reporter and registered for myspace to keep track of local bands.

Still, I can't over the fact it's used primarily by teens, dirty old men and those who just want people to look at them.

I just don't think I can/want to sit there and surf through all the crap to find other journalists or baseball fans or classic rock fans, like me.

 

As of 5:22 p.m. PST today, there are 159,622,945 -- that's 159 million, mind you -- registered profiles on MySpace. I sincerely doubt that "teens, dirty old men and those who just want people to look at them" make up even a sizable majority of those 159 million.

Hold onto your stereotypes if you want them. But as was said earlier, MySpace can be whatever you want it to be. And if you don't want to be around the teens, dirty old men and attention whores, you don't have to be. There are plenty of other people on that site -- and all over the Web -- who aren't.

 

Well done sir. Absolutely hilarious. Resume you're ball busting.

 

Buck. I agreed with you already.

All I'm saying is that the only press myspace gets is bad. (i.e SNL skits, CNN reporting the dirty old men, mydeadspace.com, etc.)

 

It's actually not that hard to sort through that stuff.

 

MySpace is a spyware flytrap, for starters.

 

Which is it? Do you use it and have you contracted spyware? Or do you not use it since you think it's "weird"?

Not trying to be a dick, I'd really just like to know.

 

I use it insofar as I can track former co-workers who have told me about me their pages, yes. I have picked up spyware, yes.

And I'm not trying to be a dick, either. There's just something about it that skeeves me out. I don't understand why we all need a portal into our world.

 

Not the same thing.

SportsJournalists.com is ... well, it's a message board. And that's it.

Having a site on MySpace or Facebook is different because you have to spend time maintaining it (checking mail, posting pictures, adding a song to annoy entertain visitors to the page).

I have a MySpace account. At least, I think I might still have a MySpace account. I never added anything to it beyond one half-hearted blog entry and never log in there. I just have other things I'd rather do than mess with it.

 

Agreed. Some people go crazy over it, others not so much. I have one on both, but I check MySpace more. I've kept in touch with old friends, made some new ones and keep up with the bands I like.

 

That's how I feel, and I don't know why.