Comments on: More on Myspace

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:17:58 +0000

yes interesting, i’m intrigued by the fake celebrity profiles and the way people interact with them. by the way, you don’t need a computer, johnny, you need a typewriter with 8 legs and antennae.

By: johnny

johnny — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:42:18 +0000

someone put up a crime myspace. we don’t know who and we don’t really give a hoot. someone else posted our video: live at san quentin prison on youtube. my computer is so old both of these venues don’t work for me, so i guess i’m safe for now.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:58:01 +0000

wow, two drug-metaphored myspace comments! k paul, your experience is very interesting: are you saying there’s a black market in library-card numbers? that’s fascinating. what age group are we talking? and michael k: can you tell us more about your four-month experiment? or will you be publishing the results online? a dozen myspace profiles — that sounds intense…

By: Michael K

Michael K — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:21:14 +0000

Speaking as someone who recently deleted more than a dozen myspace profiles after a four-month ‘experiment’ therein, I can confirm that your external view of that gated community is 120% accurate. And I’m speaking as someone who loved it as well as hated it. There is no quicker route to the damnation of the eternal soul! I am recovering well in a rehabiliation programme which mostly consists of sitting outside in the sun making notes in a small black notebook. What I write in this way does not receive any response or feedback but neither do I spend upwards of eleven hours a day dealing with such feedback. Myspace causes intellectual incontinence or, to be fairer, simply ‘brings it out’.

By: k paul blume

k paul blume — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:09:12 +0000

Definitely agree. As for coming over as a ‘terrible evil academic’, allow me to play — as I do on a daily basis — the ’stern librarian’ and say simply that, along with YouTube (the eater of bandwidth) MySpace has become a pernicious virtual narcotic, with certain of my patrons doing whatever they can to get their fix, ie; pirating library card numbers, touring from location to location, lying and begging for time on Mr Murdoch’s money spinner.