I've had two myspaces in the past 3 years (because I got sick of it and deleted my first one), and I'm not sure really why I like it so much. I guess it's just an easy way to be in contact with all my friends, faster than email and more permanent than IM (because you can leave a message even if someone is offline, which currently only yahoo does, but nobody uses yahoo).

First, I make it a point not to add people I don't personally know well in real life, not because I'm scared of sex offenders or anything, but just because they're annoying.

Second, anyone who actually meets up with a sex offender on myspace...honestly, they deserve it. Internet relationships are bad, and internet relationships that turn into real life ones are worse. So if you go down that road, expect bad things to come.

Third, I like a lot of the extra stuff myspace has...the music section is great, for example.

Now, I still use my email, and all three major messengers (yahoo, aim, msn), I just like myspace as an easy way to keep a network with all my friends.

 

 

 

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Hey I use Yahoo! Anyway you do make a point, when ever I do try to keep in contact with friends they always say "Do you have AIM?" or every other messenger I don't use that often.



I do agree with that, anyone who does meet up with a sex offender and ends up having bad consequences because of it deserves what they get. I don't know about all Internet relationships being bad. I know quite a few people who have had successful relationships online, you just have to be careful about who you try to have a relationship with and be on your guard.

 

 

 

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I use it to meet people cause i have found some cool people on there with the same interest. I have heard of some great bands from there. And in my town, funny story, someone was caught spray painting "bad" pictures all over portland oregon and some other kid found the same marks on a kids profile with HIM STANDING NEXT TO IT. How god damn dumb is that.

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I personally dont like myspace. I dont know why, maybe because it just doesnt let you have all the freedom you want. You can only edit what they want you to edit. But because some friends were bugging me, I started a Bebo. I like it better than myspace, you can customize more things. You can look at it at http://bebo.com. Mine is http://huskergar.bebo.com

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lol, I use yahoo too.

But no, not all internet relationships are bad...I've had a few before, actually, (well, one that evolved from having a mutual friend, and one that came from an irl relationship where I moved) and those weren't that bad, but I just can't see an internet relationship turning into anything permanent.

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Then again, you can use an invisionfree forum, which is free, faster, and has less ads.

I agree with you on this one...

I don't dig ameteur bands that look like a bunch of emo kids.

See reason 3 quotes above.

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A majority of people aren't technologically advanced enough to use forums, surprisingly. That's why nobody I know is on the invisionboard forums I already have.

Not all the bands on there are emo bands. There's some great ones on there...my favorites currently being switchfoot, gnarls barkley and foo fighters.

Also, myspace is probably an easy way for tech-impaired kids (and adults, sadly) to create their own "space" on the internet, since honestly, they probably couldn't figure out how to use something like Trap17 to start their own website. The friends I've referred to trap so far always come to me to set up their website for them (which I try to avoid) because they can't figure it out.

Sorry to say, but a good majority of the world just doesn't know how to use a computer.

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What's funny is is that after you get the hang of creating web sites it seems that much easier than myspace. I myself found creating a website taking no less than 5 minutes with a Post Nuke CMS, while dawdleing with my former myspace profile took at least a half an hour, then I got bored and deleted it because it served no purpose.

I'm only really bothered with 2 things in myspace: Those who watch their profile views for hours on end(which seems to me to be very sad they have nothing better to do), and those who talk into space on their blogs. Though there are people like you that use it to communicate with friends I think there are other ways to do it that seem better. I just remembered that network54's remote forum hosting dumbs it down to myspace's level where people could understand it. See example: http://spamcentral.us.to

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If I were President of the united states, I'd officially declare war on MySpace and all similar retarded web sites. Seriously. There's nothing I hate more than MySpace or idiots bickering about it. It makes me want to get a time machine, find the guy who invented myspace, and punch his mom in the uterus so she'd miscarry him.
If the entire internet was a house, MySpace would be a toilet. The house would have no plumbing, though. That means the MySpace idiots would overflow every time somebody flushes it into other portions of the internet house.
MySpace is also a pedophile sanctuary, but people go anyway.

From now on, me and the internet are going to have to fight.

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That's an interesting perspective to put it in.

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