I may be against the majority of the world with this decision, but I really hate myspace. I deleted my account about a 6 months ago. My internet experience didn't seem to suffer too much from deleting it. I do, on occassion, miss the fact that I no longer recieve instant messages from random creepy people, but that will fade with time.

I have many qualms with myspace. The first thing that annoyed me when I found myspace was the abundance of ads and popups. No one else seemed to mind, until just recently ads on myspace were found to be exploiting windows security vulnerabilities and downloading viruses and spyware onto the computers of unsuspecting users. I laughed when I first heard about this. The second annoyance I found was the music that everyone posts on there personal pages. If I want to listen to music I will play a CD or listen to my mp3 playlist. I don't want my music listening to be interrupted by the emo-crap songs that everyone posts on their pages. Another thing that just grinds my gears is the horrible layouts on myspace. The default layout is OK to be nice. If everyone just used the default layout, browsing myspace might be tollerable, but no one does. Instead users sport ugly poorly done layouts that make it impossible for people to read any of the content in the page. Honestly people, black text scrolling over gothic black background images aren't going to be readable. It makes me wonder if people actually read there own pages after posting to them. Possibly the biggest headache of myspace is how people use it. Its main purpose seems to be allowing fourteen year old girls to compete and see who has the most "friends". I say "friends" because the myspace definition of friends isn't exactly the definition that we use in the real world. In the myspace world a friend is just anyone else with a myspace page who is willing to link toour page. The secondary function is to perpetuate the idea of chain e-mails. Such e-mails are posted on myspace "blogs", message boards, and personal pages. These things got old in 5th grade people, grow up.

Myspace is known as a "social networking" tool. Am I the only person who thinks social networking should require social interaction as a main ingredient? I currently fear that facebook is going in the same direction as myspace. This deeply saddens me, because I always thought facebook would be a great way to keep in touch with old friends and organize events. Now it is becoming just another tool for people to brag about how many "friends" they have. And what's worse is that businesses seem to be using it as a tool to weed out employee candidates. Maybe social networking should be left to the real world, not the cyber world.