I deleted my myspace account
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.
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.