(from the Kanye West Apology Generator...)

I'M SOOOOO SORRY TO Spacefem AND Michael Bolton FOR spanking THE aardvark. I SPOKE TO Michael Bolton RIGHT AFTER. Spacefem IS VERY stupid !!........... I'M IN THE WRONG FOR slashing AND swimming!!!!!!! I'M SORRY TO MY FANS IF I LET YOU GUYS DOWN!!!!! I'M SORRY TO MY FRIENDS AT Nike. I WILL APOLOGIZE TO Spacefem 2MRW. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!! EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I'M A FAN OF lugnut!!! y'all KNOW!!! BOOOOYAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!! uh I GAVE MY swurve TO Helena Bonham-Carter WHEN THEY DESERVED IT... THAT'S WHAT IT IS!!!!!!!!!! I'M NOT CRAZY YALL, I'M JUST BEING REAL. SORRY FOR THAT!!!MUCH RESPECT!!!!!

September 20 2009

I deleted my myspace account.

I just never got that site working the way I liked. I got an account a few years ago when some coworkers I party with suggested it. I'd never connected online to "real" people, so I asked if this was the sort of place where I should use my real name, or an online identity. They all use real names. So I did too.

But quickly I hated lots of things about that. I like my time online to somehow promote spacefem.com, which I couldn't do using my real name. Yes I know vanity is a deadly sin, we all get to pick one. Anyway I didn't see the thrill in talking to people I talk to at work. I felt nervous meeting people online, and HATED accidentally clicking some annoying profile and having "my humps" start up through my computer speakers.

By the time I realized that myspace could be fun if I could be spacefem, make myself into a mini-celeb, the name "spacefem" was taken! I think that was the nail in the coffin for me. who would take spacefem? it's random, and it's mine.

Facebook took off differently. When I joined myspace, friends wrote stupid comments on my profile page that didn't add much. When I joined Facebook, I got invited to parties. The calendar/schedule stuff was helpful. I also liked being tagged in photos, and I liked that it was private. Maybe you can do events and photos in myspace too but it was too everywhere.

I will miss being tied in with my favorite music groups. Jill Sobule has a good myspace. My HUSBAND uses it all the time for his DJ gigs... even made me his top friend, which was a big deal since I never logged into the site. I also feel bad leaving myspace because I feel like it's looked down on, like the ghetto of the internet now, and the fact that I never got it makes me feel classist. Let's face it... Facebook may not blast "my humps" when you visit a profile page but you have to suffer through your friends posting stupid privacy-stealing applications in the form of "what sex and the city character are you?" or similar offending quizzes. It's ghetto there too. Don't act like we're all so much smarter for having moved on.

Rise and fall of friendster

I saw this link on slashdot and bitched to my boyfriend about it, and he said I was right on, so I'm making a livejournal entry.

A ton of years ago there was this website I registered on called "six degrees". My friend mikey got me on it... you put in your friends, and they put in their friends, and you saw who you were linked to, and it was cool. Then of course friendster came along years later and I thought it was a total ripoff, which is funny, because the NYT is giving it credit for being the first "social network" site that inspired myspace and youtube and myyearbook and whatever else is out there.

it definitely wasn't.

and now, after its rise, it's fallen, and I'm not surprised at all. maybe even a little happy in that evil way. why? because there really wasn't anything original about friendster! and myspace is even worse... either way, the point of the site is to hope that, when you put yourself out there, people come flocking. as the sites get older and fewer people are around to care, it dies off exponentially.

So that's why, when I started advicenators, I made it a very clear point that it was not a community site, it was an advice site. You don't have to "connect" or "network" or "make friends", if you don't like the content on the site (questions) you can supply it yourself, it's totally what you make it, not what your friends make it. Some people got it and some people didn't. I sometimes worry about the guy who owns it now... he's talked about guestbooks and forums and custom skins and I hold back because it's not my site anymore, but really I wish I could make everyone see that my purpose was to make an advice site because an advice site hadn't been done before. Guestbooks and forums and "shout-outs" have. If people start coming to the site for the shout-outs, and stop coming for the advice, we've lost our power and originality. It's true that my idea did not make me a billionaire. And we didn't get a million members, and Google didn't offer me a job, but I'm still proud of what I did because I think it was interesting. And you know what? I don't see it dying off any time soon. And even if it does die off, it will still serve its purpose... which is "come get advice" and not "come be where all your friends are".

my point? stop making rip-off websites! not only will you go down, but you will go down annoying. I think I've been fighting the demon since 1998... hell, even spacefem.com got popular because of the useless blobs, and those were just invented to make fun of all the lame "adoption" graphic homepages on geocities, and I bet I outdid them. the useless quiz is still my most popular quiz and it just makes fun of all the other quizzes. so obviously, i'm not the only one who sees the humor in how repetetive people are.

i'm not the most original person in the world, but please people, at least I try.

I give myspace two more years.

apparently 88x31 banners are out now. the new hot size is 80x15. i'm so behind and uncool.