So I figured I would add a small amount of content to my placeholder [?external:http://www.myspace.com/seanetcetera MySpace page], mainly so some people could find me if they so desired. I then started looking for people I graduated high school with. Not surprisingly, there were very few I could find. It took a while, but I was eventually able to recall each person’s page that I saw.
Not surprisingly, for people graduating from Wickliffe High School in 1998, MySpace had more (18) than Facebook (1, myself). A reason for this is that Facebook didn’t reach popularity until I was at the end of my undergraduate college career, and as I had waited two years to enter Bowling Green State University, most of the people I graduated high school with who would have had the needed college e-mail address were already on their way in the real world, or atleast no longer in college. Those who didn’t attend college, or a college that gave an e-mail address, wouldn’t ahve been able to get into Facebook either. And so I stand alone on Facebook, the single point of light representing Wickliffe ‘98 alumni. MySpace, on the other hand, is open to anyone, which mean more people can use it to connect.
Both social networking sites have their pros and cons, but the ugliest part about MySpace is the ability of the account owner to customize their pages. While this can some times give you a nice result, it is seldom the case. Consider the following:
The problem with letting anyone edit the style of a page is that you end up with a bunch of people make pages that they think are cute or cool or pretty or whatever, but they are nearly impossible to figure out where stuff is at or even read. I’ve been using the web for years now, and I’ve seen my share of the horrid Geocities, Xanga, and LiveJournal pages. I’ve gotten to the point where if there is too much flashing and what not, I consider the page to full of unimportant information. I spoke with some of the student workers about MySpace designs, and we’re convinced that the people who allowed it thought a lot of good site designs would be created. They probably forgot that the general public, and not those with an understanding of coding and, well, good sense, would be making the pages.
As one of them said, [?external:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=3498962 “Take that Freedom.”].
It was also agreed upon that [?external:http://www.blinkyou.com Blink You Dot Com] needs to go away, die, and never, ever, come back again.
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