Not into myspace
Archived from October 25, 2007
Wow, I am totally not into myspace right now. I'm really not into it. It's overwhelming, it's impersonal. I have 400 friends many of which are not even people but actually places or groups. I have several people who are my friend like 3 times because I'm "friends" with all their groups and alter egos.
It seemed like a good idea. You know, to have a myspace page for your group or for your hometown, or for your movie or for your pet or for your child or for you and your spouse or for another project you just started. But right now, I'm just not into it.
I'm not into getting 8 bulletins about the same event because I'm friends with 5 people who are all in the same group and their group is my "friend". Plus some of the people I'm friends with in the same group have 2 or 3 myspace pages just for themselves, like their professional page and their friend page. That happened to me. I had one page and then I decided to open a comedy page, and now I feel really overwhelmed because I never said no to new "friends". Now I say no all the time because I have 10 strangers asking me to be their "friend" everyday and I'm already overwhelmed managing people I know.
Then people change their names and put picutres of their dogs or a drawing up so I don't know who they are anymore. I'm sure a million (or more likely 200 million) people have already had this complaint. I guess I just want to feel like more of a person. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I really like to have personal emails. I like to actually have someone communicate with me. I like it when people have met me before. Honestly, I'd rather get a mass email from someone who I've met before than 9 bulletins. I'd rather get an evite sent to my email account than an "event invitation" on myspace. I would prefer people tell me about their shows via email and leave bulletins as a place to post "internet jokes". Or "fun fact" emails or "ways to not get raped" emails.
I guess don't want to be a number. Maybe this is the wrong forum for this.
Maybe I belong in the late 90's.
Maybe I'll change my mind once I'm doing more stuff.
Maybe I'll move to the mountains and live off the land and then when I come back down LA will have burned to a nub and everyone will have forgotten their passwords and will be eating grass sandwiches and creating a socialist utopia and will be getting to know each other again face to face.
Ding dong.
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