Posted: 7/12/2006 8:09:11 PM EDT
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I heard on the radio today that Myspace is now getting more hits than any other website (including Google). So… any Myspace users here? I can understand the idea of keeping in touch (even though it seems like a stretch at best), but beyond that, I really “don’t get it”. Maybe it is a generational thing, but what is the attraction??? |
Easy to get them hoes yo, without even going outside. |
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I think MySpace is just one of those "flavor of the moment" things. Many younger people have signed up just because everyone else is. For me, I just don't see anything that special about it. If I wanna keep in touch with friends, IM's still seem the better means of doing so. Then you don't have to deal with anything else but the friends you want to keep in touch with. |
| I use it pretty frequently. I can communicate and share pictures with a large number of people far more easily than via email. I've caught up with several people with whom I thought I'd lost touch forever, including several old Air Force buddies. If I meet a young lady at a party or something I can check out her profile to get a general idea as to whether or not she's worth calling. People talk shit about it, but it's handy. |
a big Plus 1 i have like 60 people on my friends list i graduated with... i made a profile for my friend in Iraq so me and the above 60 people can keep in touch with him. ive dated a few really cool chicks from it, even though i dont "need" the internet to get a date- its just funny when youre at your local bar and a girl goes "i recognize you from...." and the rest is history. or the other idea of- meeting someone great that you would have never meet otherwise... i actually used it to find a chick i graduated with, then ended up in a pretty good relationship with her. thanks myspace! plus it gives me something to do to kill time. check out the myspace AR15.com section called "ARFcom Army" in the groups section. im "Miller" |
RustedAce, as usual, hits the nail on the head. |
Handy is the word for it. Sure there is a lot of silly kids there, but they are doing the same thing as everyone else, very conveniently keeping in touch with their friends. And possibly meeting new ones. I`ve found several ppl i had lost contact with, and vise versa. Did i mention the womenz?  |
BINGO For me, that is it's sole purpose. None of my friends even know I have it, I use a fake name, and I'd deny it if you asked me. I talk a little with her, then look her up that night to see if she is worth my time. It works, WELL |
, good to keep into touch with friends
+1 there also, i met a chick through a friend at the bars, went to a party after the bar, hit it off really well... she even wanted to go shooting with us the next morning, so we did. so far so good... til i found her myspace profile. her world evolves around POT and rap music. NOT my type! a little deeper conversation i found out she was once charged with a felony, dont know the result of that. her myspace bulletins and blogs seem to suggest she is hung up on her loser ex boyfriend, so i decided to hit the EJECT button and let the bitch go away. thanks again myspace! 
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That's kinda creepy, dude. You have no idea who you're meeting online. It could be a hot woman, or it could be Dale, the tranny that just got out of prison and is looking for a fun time (fun for him, anyways). |
NO, no. You are missing the idea. You meet the chick in person FIRST, be it at a bar or wherever. While you are talking to her ask this question, "Where did you go to school?" Find out her age, then that night look her up, looking for her school + graduation year. If she has pictures of her chugging 40s surrounded by dudes without their shirts on, retreat. If she is posing with little smiling kids (not hers), advance on that ass. Thank me later. |
That is the only good thing about there being no shame anymore. Lots and lots of women let you know they are undesirable right on their myspace profile. (deny friend request) CLICK. Ah... that concludes what might have been some days or weeks of wasted time and possible trouble in an instant. |
not a good idea, girls will eventually awknowledge each others existance when the see the other one leave a cutesy message. I keep myspace strictly to friends and family (and the occasional researching who gave me her info at the bar) |
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I gues you could say I'm part of that generation(I'm also mid 20s). I don't get it and I don't like the idea of millions of people able to look me up either. I do the best I can to keep my cyber ID separate from my real world ID. I have read articles where employeers are using google to find out what type of forums people like to post on and activities they do. Myspace only makes that easier. |
A twentysomthing female at work announced she was now on myspace.  So she can keep in touch with others her age who have even less real world experience than she does?
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| Myspace is very addictive to my generation. If you are a high schooler and popular then you will love myspace. I have like 12 different myspace accounts. I haven't really been there latly because like I said it's way too addicting and I was falling behind on the stuff I usually do online so I quit myspace for awhile. |
And that, my friends, is the rest of the story. Myspace is different things to different people. |
