Sure it seems like the thing most people may have nowadays. All the cool kids have them, and all that blah, blah, blah. But you see, my main beef with MySpace, stems from bands now using them as the go-to place for information. It’s a hassle, since lots of people (average joes included), tend to bulk their pages with a shitload of crap. All these dumb widgets that clog up the screen, most very useless, and others downright annoying. I know most official sites to bands and artists tend to have music automatically play, so that’s not the main issue, but all these flash gadgets and hooplah, I guess you could say, makes it harder to find relevant information sometimes. It’s becomes highly congested, and a big waste of space and bandwidth, and my time.

I am forced to check out some from time to time, such as Tantric’s, only because that is their official “site” (the quotes is because anyone that uses MySpace and calls their little “space” a site, is completely misinformed. It, as far as I’m concerned, is nothing more than a page, part of a network of other pages. I site is a singular section on one subject. What I mean by this, you go to a MySpace page, there are links at the top to check other features and such of MySpace, meaning going away from the current subject you are on. I don’t define it as a site.

Anyway, it’s terrible more with non-technical groups. Average people who are most guilty with clogging their page with junk. Also, color schemes become huge problems, as I’m reminded of one from someone I’ve met that has light text and light background. It’s very tacky people. I don’t expect everyone to understand the basic concept of design, but I would like to think people could at least be smart enough to know that contrast is key. Afterall, don’t you want people to be able to, I don’t know, read the damn thing.

My sister-in-law actually signed up for an account, practically against her will, as her little brother and sister have their own and practically begged her to. She’s like me, finds it to be complete nonsense (plus, she’s one of the non-technical people).

Back to the idea of kids all pretty much having their own, this is where real problems occur. They mainly use them in communication with friends, and as long as they don’t allow it to be found to the public, then it’s not all too bad, I guess, but if they don’t know no better, what’s to stop a slip of information to their location. It’s also bad even if they are non-public. Their friends could easily crack their passwords (because it is like totally the hottest guy’s name, or whatever), and put very bad stuff on there. I’m talking nasty stuff that can ruin reputations. So kids, just because everyone else has one, doesn’t mean you need to too.

I went to school in web design, so I don’t need these kinds of services anyway. They were a quick and easy way to put a page up and have this little piece of the world wide web. MySpace is more on social networking, but also getting out there. Like I said, not everyone would or should buy a web host and install something like WordPress (awesome, BTW), and blog their troubles away, but MySpace is also a terrible way to go. When it comes down to it, not everyone should be out there on the Internet, as it is most definitely not for everybody.