5 Things I hate about MySpace

Those who have known me for a while know that I'm a list creator and everything can fall in a few categories established within the list building process. Goals and aspirations, to-do, and rants. Today's list is nothing more than rant but I need to get it off my chest.

5 Things I hate about MySpace

1) Spam - I don't know who I should hate more for this, the people creating the spam accounts or the people stupid enough to believe in them. If spam didn't work, it would go away but instead some brainless person continues to think of them as the real deal and clicks away. The old adage states "an idiot is born every minute" and these are the people that make spam happen.

2) 96 million people screaming "look at me". MySpace caters to our narcissistic side and everyone is shouting about themselves at once.

3) MySpace photos. I was a huge fan of the "scene" girl photos back in the day but now it has become passe and boring. It is time to create a new fad of photo genius to display to your friends.

4) Load times. Is MySpace seriously coded in HTML circa 1985? I'm sick of hearing the excuses why the site can't load quickly (to many people, yada yada) but really it brings me to number 5.

5) Tom. Who is this guy that everyone has to accept as a friend upon joining the site? The first thing I did when I created an account was to delete Tom faster than a prom dress falling to the floor of a horny teenager's prom. I'm sick of his updates and mindless banter and I just wish he would go away. I imagine a geeky guy in the basement of his parents house typing away at his keyboard as his mom yells down for him to come to dinner. Sure this is a atypical stereotype but it is one that I feel is close to the truth.

-B.

RSS world

I'm addicted to RSS feeds. Seriously, addicted. Over the course of the last 72 hours, I have read 667 items, starred 4 items and shared 4 items. I don't know why these little bastards are so enjoyable but I'm completely addicted. I think it has something to do with being on top of events, ideas, or gizmos but I'm not going to give these things up for anything.

Perhaps my addictive behaviors are reaching out to other areas (I am addicted to email and not drugs or alcohol like some might be thinking) but since Thursday when I discovered all the cool features that Google has given me for being a Gmail client, I feel I truly have jumped on the Google Net bandwagon. I think if they crashed and burned (not bloody likely) I would crash and burn with them. Where else can I check my calendar for the next 20 years, read the news and RSS feeds, then look at the photos that I have uploaded, update my blog and then email everyone? Yahoo doesn't even come close to the services offered from Google and for that I am thankful. The scary thing is how they monitor what I do on the Internet. They track my surfing patterns, my reading patterns and even look through my email to give me links to shit I just don't need. So for those who give two shits about my sharred RSS feeds, here is a link to my shared page.

Shared RSS feeds

And for those who don't know what an RSS feed is, why are you even surfing the web?

-B.