Myspace, Lame Space

Margot Gonzalez, staff writer

Friends, new messages, new comments, new friend requests. 

All these are what most of us look forward to seeing every time we get online. Right off the bat most of us would know exactly what I was talking about in the first sentence.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I realize how extremely lame Myspace is, but how come we all still have an account?

The famous Tom Anderson (yeah, that’s the guy who is everyone’s friend) was smart enough to combine a couple of good looking kids and some really smart kids to get this site started.  What I still don’t understand is why he did it. But I can’t say I’m mad he did.  I mean shouldn’t we give thanks to this innovator for creating something that brings us together?

A friend of mine who I met here at SPC moved back to Montrose, Colo. for the summer, and we couldn’t think of a way besides Myspace to keep in touch with each other without the hassle of e-mail.  I mean, let’s be honest, how many of us prefer e-mail to Myspace? 

With Myspace you’re able to post a short comment and still send the message just as fast as an e-mail.  Another plus about Myspace is the pictures.  So many of us tend to be attracted to seeing new and familiar faces, and we are able to do that with Myspace. 

It was through Myspace that I met most of the friends I have now.  This is where it starts to get lame.  Why is it that behind the screen we can be as confident as the knight and his joust, yet when in person, we freeze up like junior high kids at their first dance?

So before I start sounding like a book of facts, let me just throw out there that Myspace isn’t a bad thing.  I think that it has been given a bad rap recently because of due to some of the crazy kids on there. 

The only problem I have with Myspace is that I know that half the people I add as friends aren’t really my friends.  I find interesting people all over that site, and sure, on my page it will say we are friends.  But the only thing they know about me is that I live where Buddy Holly did, and perhaps they know my face.

Not long ago I figured I would try to see how many SPC students actually had a Myspace.  You wouldn’t believe how many faces I recognized, and in the back of my head I knew I wouldn’t talk to half of them.  Is that a bad thing?

Of course it is!  So I took the initiative to go ahead and befriend someone from Myspace, and low and behold, we met in person.  Before you turn the page, let me tell you that Myspace is most definitely less lame than it was 200 words ago. 

Perhaps if someone who reads this article makes an effort to meet me without using Myspace, I may just have to rejoin the human race and make friends the old fashioned way.

I still think, though, we’ve all benefited from using Myspace.  I understand there are a few of you out there who have had your share of the stalker types, but we can just count those as compliments. I mean, if you have someone who wants to stalk you, there has to be something special, right?