Myspace…what’s the big deal?

I don’t get why everyone makes such a big deal about online pages like myspace xanga and face book. First of all I must say I think myspace is one of the biggest wastes of time. I remember in my freshman year it was the hottest thing after the xanga died out. I never had a xanga but when everyone started talking about this new thing called “myspace” I jumped right on it and created myself an account. In the beginning it was fun trying to see how many friends you could have and it was fun to leave comments on everyone’s page. I remember trying to get as many friends as I could and try to get comment form everyone. But soon I realized what a big waste of time it was. I would go on just to check my page and I’d loose myself in leaving all my friends comment without realizing it hours would pass. Many of my friends can't go a day without checking their myspace at least once…personally I don’t have that need. In fact I have not logged on to myspace for over 2 years. I’ve been on a myspace boycott because I think it is stupid. My page is just sitting there with the billions of other myspace pages on the Internet.

Not only is myspace a waste of time it unsafe. Many people display personal information on their site such as their full name, age, school, grade, pictures, etc. Why would you want to display your personal life on the Internet where everyone and anyone can view it? For my site I did not use my name, put my age a 99 years old, said I lived in Alaska and had no pictures of myself. I know some of my friends who have met people over myspace. Sure sometimes you may meet a decent person but there is a very high chance that people on the Internet are not who they claim to be. Hey…I said I was 99 years old and lived in Alaska. There are creepy people all over myspace making it a pretty unsafe environment. I know people display pictures and information of themselves thinking their friends are looking at this but often times we tend to forget than anyone can look at it as well.

Myspace has taken over a lot of teenage conversations. For example when one of my friends took this nice picture on her camera the first thing she said was I’m going to use this as my profile picture. Also people have used myspace as a new communicating device. Sometimes if friends have something to say to you they no longer feel obligated to tell you, instead they just leave a comment on your myspace. Also now on myspace you can change you top 8 friends. I know many people get offended if they are taken off a person’s top 8 or are demoted to a lower number on the scale of 1-8. Personally I think this is the dumbest thing ever. Just because you aren’t number 1, 2, 3, 4, etc on a person’s myspace page doesn’t mean they aren’t you friends anymore. I also think it is dumb how when people get into fights with their friends they knock them off their top 8 to show they are upset. Who cares!?!? Myspace has become such a large influence on teenage life. I don’t think this is a good thing because it is a waste of time and unsafe. It is unhealthy when people claim to be addicted to these sites. I know myspace is slowly getting old and dying out but as soon as something dies out something else becomes the new hit thing. Before myspace it was xanga and now face book is slowly becoming more and more popular. Whatever it may be called when it comes down to it is really not as great as people make it to be. Seriously get a life…a life off of myspace.