Anytime I meet someone new now, they don't even ask for my phone number or an AIM/MSN screen name. They ask for a myspace link, as if it's the new way to exchange contact information. At first it seems like a great idea. Don't get me wrong, I had a myspace page once as well. But as time went on, I realized people were in it for all the wrong reasons. There's a section where you can show off how many "friends" you have, and not only that, you choose your TOP friends among them. What the fuck is going on? First off, the option to display how many friends you have makes it seem like a popularity contest. Don't deny it, the more friends you have, the better you feel about yourself. And you pick your "top" friends? What kind of elitist shit is that? I thought all your friends would be equal under your eyes. I'm sure you would have friends that you prefer over others, but there's no need to remind them that some of them just don't "make the cut" when it comes to being one of your closest chums. You bastard. There's also the option to customize your background as well as add music. Listen, I know you may think it seems stylish and unique, but that just makes it ten times slower on my browser to load, and jams up my speakers with shitty music I don't want to hear. It's not really that personal anymore if you use the same song as your friends do, and the same background that some loser with too much free time crafted on photoshop. It's like that phase a long time ago where kids wore shirts that spewed rebellion and angst and attacked global marketing. You know, the shirts that said shit like ,"You laugh at me because I'm different, but I laugh at you because you're all the same!" Yeah, way to go bitch. Prove your individualism by wearing a shirt that's printed by the millions and worn by the thousands. Real classy. Anyways, Myspace is a piece of trash. You also put out photos of yourself (a lot of them aren't really flattering) and you add tons of information regarding your taste in music, film, novels, etc. Someone could get to know you really well after spending 5 minutes on your page. You can even make friends over myspace! How fucking lame is that? When did we, as a culture, decide to be so lazy, that instead of going out, meeting people, getting to know them, we have myspace to do all that in a span of 4-5 minutes? Doesn't anyone go out anymore¡¦meet new people¡¦and¡¦get¡¦to¡¦know¡¦them? It sounds a lot more interesting than staying at home and surfing the web for strangers. Do me a favor, stop editing your pages, and go out and do something. The next person that asks for my myspace page gets to know what my fist tastes like.
 

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