MySpace

[clairey-s]

What you all think of this site? Parents, Users, whatever... all this about it being dangerous etc, but how much do you really know?

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[mycats]

I've been on myspace for months and I think it is the parents responsibilty to know what their kids/ teenagers are up to online. If they let them have unsupervised internet access and have managed to raise children that think it's ok to go onto a website and post photos of themselves in their bloody underwear, then how is that the fault of the website?

[clairey-s]

i dont think thats fair...
i know lots of people on myspace personally, who DO NOT post pictures of themselves in thier underwear, and just use it to catch up with old friends or let everyone know what theyve been up to.
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[mycats]

No, no, I didnt mean that everyone who uses it posts pictures of themselves in their underwear (I certainly dont!) I meant that the PARENTS of these teenagers (who are clearly about 14) that you see on there, claiming to be 18 and posing in their knickers are the ones who should be responsible, not myspace

[LeMarchand]

Too old and crusty to really care about MySpace, which sounds like an extension of the truly awful LiveJournal to me. I tend to agree with mycats about parents keeping tabs on their own kids. As for the underwear thing - maybe you and your friends don't, but (apparently) people do.

Not as funny as the idiots who apparently posted pics of themselves taking drugs along with mentions of where they were getting their supply from. Apparently they were appalled that the police "invaded their privacy" by using MySpace as a source of information!

[clairey-s]

hahaha, they sound like very well rounded, well educated people....
I dont know, i think one of the better aspects of myspace is that you have to accept people before they can contact you and I think most teenagers nowadays know the risks involved with using the internet and sites such as this. I dont know anyone my age who would willingly meet with someone they contacted on myspace, but as you said, Myspace and other such sites cannot be blamed for anything these kids bring on themselves

[wideboy]

I may be an old fuddy-duddy, but if people want to make (and keep in) contact, why don't they use Friends Reunited? However, my 'kids' seem to think that Bebo is better? Swings and roundabouts??

[clancyblob]

Joined MySpace to keep tabs on a few bands. However it seems pretty boring, and a lot of users seem to simply contact you "asking you to be their friend" so they can add you as a trophy to their page. They don't want to talk or anything, just be able to say I've got 256 more friends than you.

Not seen too much sauciness though there are a few odd-bods telling you that they are into wetting their pants or something, but the language is often "parental advisory" if you know what I mean. Had some glam looking woman wanting to be my friend but I suspect it was my passport she was interested in!

Life's too short for MySpace!

[clairey-s]

haha clancyblob!!
and friends reunited ( i think ) is more of a site to find friends from when you where at school etc
and fuddyduddy i am not =] bieng only 15 myself and having no social life to speak of ;-) myspace is great fun....ish....

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[waz uk]

Haha, no-way, I actually have an "Myspace is for idiots" t-shirt..

(rant start)

So yeah, my opinion is that myspace is for idiot goth kids or low-esteemed teenagers..
I mean, I just hate the way everyone posts the same
"Im taking a pic of myself from above head height, but trying to look really cool and hip" bloody picture..
If they had any real friends, then they would get them to take their pictures eh..!

I reluctantly tried it for a few days to see if it was as bad as everybody says it is and man, it was a thousand times worse..

I signed up to browse a couple of pages and automatically I had a friend.. I mean WTF, I didnt even know the guy and had no profile yet apart from a bloody name.. Whether he added me or myspace "gave him" to me I dont know..

Upon viewing some of theses horribly designed pages, lame-ass MP3 tunes (usually megadeath, slipknot or some other very similar sounding heavy metal ********) would start up and slow my browser down to a fookin snails pace.. It was just a wall of noise trying to view anyones bloody page..! Not to mention that myspace is universally known for crashing your browser (which it did to my mozilla various times)..

Man, myspace is lame lame lame..

Real friends talk to each other on the phone, or by email or by hotmail, or they actually meet up face to face and hang out.. How the fook can anyone have 895 friends, I ask ya..
I got about 10, maybe 12 if I count my cats..

Myspace is just full of attention seeking ****** and depressed bloody goth kids who only wear eyeliner and black clothes because there parents want them to be all preppy and clean cut..

It is one of the most dreadfully designed websites in existence, and also the most depressing.. (have I mentioned the awful music.?)

"Myspace is for idiots"

(rant over)

[wideboy]

Nice one, waz uk.

Bebo, Bebo, Bebo ...

YouTube and Putfile.com????