MySpace: Social Networking or Exploited and Dangerious?

Post by **newbified** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:28 am

Oh shit...don't get Psi started on Myspace.

He'll have to start a brand new rant thread for it.

Post by **psi29a** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:35 am

newbified wrote:Oh shit...don't get Psi started on Myspace.

He'll have to start a brand new rant thread for it.

ROAR! *Clouds form over the forum, the sound of giant thunderclaps can be heard overhead*

FUHHHHHHHHHK Myspace, and you can thank millions of no-talent asshats for what it has become. Thank you Murdoch! For buying out Myspace, you fucking facist right wing biggot.

Dunno who Murdoch is? Dude owns Foxnews. Read up: source material

His Fox News was singled out for criticism because of its blatantly one-sided coverage of the war in Iraq and for printing unsubstantiated stories about the conflict. When CNN reporter Christian Amanpour blamed Fox for creating "a climate of fear and self-censorship" regarding coverage of Iraq, a Fox spokeswoman shot back, "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda." (7)

Said Murdoch of the war, "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." (4)

Aside from Fox, Murdoch's News Corp owns TV Guide, HarperCollins, 20th Century Fox, the London Times, and the New York Post. Murdoch also bankrolls William Kristol's neocon mouthpiece the Weekly Standard, which has been losing money ever since it started up in the mid-1990s.

He fucking owns all your souls.

Post by **Starnum** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:44 am

Mwuhahaha, Myspace is like Myn00b! I've been there like twice, heh. At least you don't have your own shit setup on there Ellen. Even a good buddy of mine does, but just the main page I guess. I'm still like, okay, um, that's..nice, heh.

Post by **Starlore** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:44 am

Asshat indeed. But then, nowadays that's practically a fad

Post by **Ellen** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:02 am

Hahah, I know how bad myspace can be. I meant is the picture really that bad. lol

I've never seen so many people on at one time.

Post by **Buzkashi** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:01 am

None of you guys are in highschool now. Its like almost neccesary to have a myspace. I wish they were unnecessary but some people find that they would rather post a comment on myspace then just tell someone on AIM, MSN, or calling. And that spreaded to the point where people just communicate mostly on myspace now. [/defenderofmyspace]

Post by **Starnum** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:08 am

Exactly, and that's just sad. I mean, if you can't at least call someone, then IM them or something. *shrugs*

Post by **Buzkashi** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:01 am

Yea. But these days. If you dont wann be left out of the social loop, you pretty much gotta at least have one. You dont neccesarily need to use it though.

Post by **Eldo** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:55 am

Buzkashi wrote:None of you guys are in highschool now. Its like almost neccesary to have a myspace. I wish they were unnecessary but some people find that they would rather post a comment on myspace then just tell someone on AIM, MSN, or calling. And that spreaded to the point where people just communicate mostly on myspace now. [/defenderofmyspace]

So are you saying that people in High School right now uses myspace because of peer pressure? Because if that's the case, you guys are weak. I don't think we have any of that in Australia right now, you guys in America must really suck.

Post by **psi29a** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:10 pm

Here's an interesting problem for MySpace — groups of websites that entice MySpace users into placing videos onto their profile pages (under the guise of 'free content'), without disclosing a key piece of information that might make them think twice. When someone visits one of these profiles carrying the video, a DRM acquisition box pops up and attempts to install Zango adware. In all likelihood, the profile owners don't even know these videos are doing this to their visitors. The end result is an Adware affiliate effectively removing himself from the distribution chain and letting kids promote these videos instead, in a strange example of viral marketing gone wrong

Be VERY careful what you do, because I know at least where I work we do background checks via google for new hires just so we can get a feel for the person. We would bring them in, and after the formal interview, we would ask them questions to verify the information found in the myspace account. Everyone of them lied to us and even about trivial things that we all would have laughed at if they had been honest.

Some that had an myspace account and content (not just an account) we decided against right away because their content displayed character traights that we didn't want in our company. You can tell a lot about a person by what they type, most of the time they have no place where I work.

Post by **MrFelony** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:23 pm

I have mixed feelings about companies prying that deeply into a person's "personal life." yes if they really wanted to keep it secret they shouldnt broadcast it on myspace or facebook for the world to see, but a lot of people seperate out their lives, such as myspace and facebook, from the corporate world. i think its invasive for companies to pry that far into a person's life, but i understand completely why they do it.

Post by **Eldo** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:40 pm

I have to say that if you boardcast your personal information onto the Internet, especially things that will incriminate yourself when searching for a job, like suicide and emo tendencies, it's really your own fault. The Internet is a public domain, and by putting your own information via myspace on the internet, you're allowing just anybody to access to your blog and your own information. If you have to write something about yourself that you don't want boardcast to the world, put it in your diary or something. Of course, corporations and companies would want to know all the avaliable information regarding the individual before hiring them. Once you put your own information for people to read on the internet, your privacy goes out the window. If you enjoy your privacy, then don't type shit for people to read.

Post by **Quest** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:50 pm

split the thread?

Post by **Buzkashi** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:33 pm

Eldo wrote:
Buzkashi wrote:None of you guys are in highschool now. Its like almost neccesary to have a myspace. I wish they were unnecessary but some people find that they would rather post a comment on myspace then just tell someone on AIM, MSN, or calling. And that spreaded to the point where people just communicate mostly on myspace now. [/defenderofmyspace]
So are you saying that people in High School right now uses myspace because of peer pressure? Because if that's the case, you guys are weak. I don't think we have any of that in Australia right now, you guys in America must really suck.

Its not peer pressure. It just makes things easier. I used to be one of the ones that held out for a while. And one of my friends still refuses. Its not like I'm checking it 24/7 and editing things on it. For God's sake I have a picture of Bill Orielly as my default.

Post by **psi29a** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 8:44 pm

Problem is that the NSA is profiling myspace, and Murdock is turning it into a marketting machine. You all are tools now, these guys are making money off of you.

New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.

Post by **newbified** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:00 pm

I knew this was going to happen...

Post by **panasonic** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:21 pm

and thats y my facebook account only has random pictures on it

Post by **Sortep** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:24 pm

thank god i never gave a rat's ass about my myspace account and never had a single shread of real info on it about myself... anyone who even posts a comment w. my real name gets that shit deleted... granted the most incriminating thing i have on it is a pic of me licking a hieneken bottle... but still... anyone who puts shit on the internet that they don't want people to see.. are morons

Post by **halfnhalf** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:24 pm

myspace is a fad, give it time and it will die. Then something else would take its place and steal money from people.

I just wish i made myspace, cuz fuck ill be sitting on almost half a billion dollars.

Post by **Sortep** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:27 pm

all for creating a place people can try to be cool besides in real life... thats the beautiful irony of it

Post by **Malvado** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:50 am

Sortep wrote:all for creating a place people can try to be cool besides in real life... thats the beautiful irony of it

I'm not cool in real life nor on myspace. I made one because my cousin made one, i don't even update because I waste my time looking at porn instead.

Post by **Ellen** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:13 am

I don't know anyone with a myspace account. o_O

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:28 am

everyone here brags about how much they dont use their myspace

. its like people are trying to be cooler for the amount that they don't use it heh. just the whole the biggest non-conformist is the coolest but also the biggest conformist in his/her group

. the way i see myspace is the way i view many video games and other activities. the reason why i would read when i was little or play video games is because it's an escape from the real world. i never really had anything to escape from, but the world of myspace, video games, and even literature is a much simpler/safer one to deal with than that which is around us. and who are we to judge anyone just because they are emo or play too many video games

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just providing another outlook about the situation.

Post by **ryusenka** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:46 am

I seriously don't know why people like this kind of stuff. Somone recommended this to me when I was 12 and I didn't touch it since, even deleted it. Even though I think that it's ridiculous how everyone is so into myspace more than almost everything else. I don't think that this fad is gonna wear out any time soon.

Post by **Eldo** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:18 am

MrFelony wrote:everyone here brags about how much they dont use their myspace . its like people are trying to be cooler for the amount that they don't use it heh. just the whole the biggest non-conformist is the coolest but also the biggest conformist in his/her group . the way i see myspace is the way i view many video games and other activities. the reason why i would read when i was little or play video games is because it's an escape from the real world. i never really had anything to escape from, but the world of myspace, video games, and even literature is a much simpler/safer one to deal with than that which is around us. and who are we to judge anyone just because they are emo or play too many video games .

just providing another outlook about the situation.

I'm not quite sure why you would lump video games, literature with myspace, and I think it's bullshit. I personally don't give a shit about people's blogs. Why would I care what you did on Tuesday? Why would I give two shits about your current mood or condition? My friends had MSNspace which is essentially a cheap myspace, and they don't update it anymore because they know it's a fad that's just come and gone. Some of them acknowledge it as a load of shit.

I'm not quite sure how thinking the whole concept of myspace is bullshit is supposed to be 'cool'. I think it's a load of shit.