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05 December 2005

More myspace magic So my friend told me to sign up for myspace, because 'thats where the babes are' And I stumble upon this 'lovely' thing. Myspace is a weird fucking place.
oh, by the way add me add me!

Or whatever it is you kids do on this site :P
posted by delmoi 05 December | 00:53
Because /Eideteker was taken
posted by Eideteker 05 December | 00:56
School: Goldenwest College
Hometown: Huntington Beach


That makes all kinds of sense. I'm so glad I moved out of that No Fear stickered, giant lifted truck-drivin' jocktacular town fulla no-neck, long-neck drinkin' jerkoffs.
posted by loquacious 05 December | 00:57
MySpace does serve some purposes. Finding babes definitely isn't one of them. I'm on there for the purpose of adding bands. So many of them these days put their music there instead of paying for hosting and whatnot. Whatever the case, I added you because I'm a secret admirer. But no more! Also, I'm not a babe.
posted by panoptican 05 December | 00:59
Eideteker has a point. I suppose this is the point where we pimp ourselves...

http://www.myspace.com/panoptican
posted by panoptican 05 December | 01:00
*ahem*
posted by YouCanCallMeAl 05 December | 01:46
That hurt my browser.
posted by matildaben 05 December | 01:47
(and fwiw, i'm at /myrealname)
posted by YouCanCallMeAl 05 December | 01:56
(and because it doesn't seem that there already is one: /metachat)
posted by YouCanCallMeAl 05 December | 02:05
I'm at /goatdog.
posted by goatdog 05 December | 02:19
loq = /chaosbit
posted by loquacious 05 December | 02:38
dude, I would totally like that girl, except for the picture that scrolls in the background. Awk-ward.

Hmm...That's totally not me.
posted by muddgirl 05 December | 02:45
My god, is this an unironic "Lindy"?
≡ Click to see image ≡

Damn, you know, it probably is ironic. It's so hard to tell these days.
posted by stilicho 05 December | 03:01
OK, my real one is at /myrealname, too...

...but I'm really freaked out about posting it - internet stalking and all.
posted by muddgirl 05 December | 03:42
It's truly amazing how crappy the design of that web site is. Maybe they should hire taz and dodgy to redesign.
posted by punch 05 December | 04:52
She looks pretty cute when she isn't dehydrated and oiled up.
posted by srboisvert 05 December | 06:45
No offense to anyone here, but why do adults join myspace? It's a festering den of children and shit-for-brains college kids. The few adult friends I know who have joined are the same type of people who send idiotic e-mail forwards. Ugh. I can't imagine wanting to be associated with that website.

I can understand the desire for free band promotion and music streaming, but a friend's band's myspace page looks like a crappy geocities page crossed with livejournal. (This from a band that has a domain registered and a real record deal. Double-ugh.)

Perhaps I'm just old and cranky.
posted by *kitten farts* 05 December | 09:03
Me.
posted by amro 05 December | 09:30
/ThePinkSuperhero, of course.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 December | 09:51
Dude, she's cute. And her muscles look nice. I wish I had about that much muscle, actually. But too much more would be gross.

I am myspace free. The ads make it nearly unreadable.
posted by dame 05 December | 10:12
No offense to anyone here,

I love how that line is always followed by something sure to offend...

(as for me, same name as here. But I can't access from work. So I'll add y'all when I get home)
posted by kellydamnit 05 December | 10:32
Adults use myspace for the same reasons that adults use AIM: Critical mass + networking. I also use it as a back-up location for my art, for when my webserver hosted on a friend's box goes down, which is often, it seems.

If you browse through my "friends" you'll see that a large proportion of them are either bands, artists or artist groups. Most of rest of them are actually real-world, long term friends - some whome I've known since as early as grade school.

There may be one or two unknown "shit-for-brains" users on there that I haven't gotten around to eliminating yet - back from when I first started and just added whoever in a misguided attempt to be promotionally minded. But the vast majority of the people in my list are people I know in real life or interact with regularly.

I don't use the blog function. Comments on my profile page are turned off by default. It's mainly just an easy and semi-reliable point of contact.
posted by loquacious 05 December | 10:39
Cracks me up that a community that supposedly promotes tolerance will post fingerpointing crap like this. Pretty sad.
posted by eekacat 05 December | 10:55
I'm not a myspace fan, and I've totally forgotten my password, so I ignore it. But - I've been watching as myspace slowly absorbs a lot of my previously cyber-phobic friends and, as loq says elegantly, it seems to be a really good way to keep in touch with people you know in r/l. That's pretty much what my friends/acquaintances are using it for. I'm interested in the way it's reached a completely new market, much more than friendster ever did or, afaik, any other social networking site. But still, it skews way younger than me, and so I stay clear.

Oh and cmonkey? your site is awesome it is soooooo cool. ;-)
posted by mygothlaundry 05 December | 10:58
Here we are; add as you see fit!

As for brain-deadness, it's like any other space on the web -- some really interesting users (artists, musicians, people with odd hobbies and interests, etc.) and some, not so much. Some pages are horrendous, some are quite readable and and nicely customized. It's a free social space, so you'll run the gamut.

I don't know that we'll ever make leap from hosting our own page to total myspaceness, but like panoptican said, it's a great resource for independents who've got to pinch pennies. (Speaking of pinches, I'd like to give you a hard defiant one, farty kitty, for making that your one and only contribution to mecha. If you're a puppet because you don't want to combat under your own handle, well, that's rather craptastic.)
posted by melissa may 05 December | 11:00
It's truly amazing how crappy the design of that web site is. Maybe they should hire taz and dodgy to redesign.

Bad design of websites can be a value signifier.

Seriously. I think a clean 37signals design would be the death of it.
posted by dhartung 05 December | 11:51
Why is this weird? I mean, bodybuilding is clearly Not My Thing, but I don't find it any weirder than getting a particularly detailed tattoo.
posted by eamondaly 05 December | 12:18
Here I am, sort of.
I am not the regular administrator of the account, but I'm sure the other guys would love to add people. We may even put music up there in the next few months.
posted by safetyfork 05 December | 13:27
Hmm. Now that I've looked at that more (don't ask me why) I realize that the page has pictures of both her (the normal looking one) and her "hero" which is the dehydrated, exposed-muscle one.
posted by delmoi 05 December | 13:29
Add me! Add me!
posted by sisterhavana 05 December | 17:05
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