koam
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clubs: | this is very old news
i noticed this probably 6 months ago when it was widespread. I haven't seen it crop up in many months.
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| said by koam  :i noticed this probably 6 months ago when it was widespread. I haven't seen it crop up in many months. Why didn't myspace apply filters to stop this kind of thing -- 6 months ago? |
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normat
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1 edit | Myspace is a mess, buggy, slow, easy to hack, etc. It's like the worst high school click times 1,000,000. DSLR is a much better site. Too bad Justin didn't get as lucky as Tom and make all those millions. |
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LegoPower77
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| said by normat :Too bad Justin didn't get as lucky as Tom and make all those millions. I agree that DSLR is worth a helluva lot more, but it's not a question of "luck" that one has more popularity. Myspace type sites allow ego-centric kids to focus on themselves; DSLR type sites focus on topics and ideas. What's that old saw: "Small minds focus on people, large minds focus on events, and great minds focus on ideas"?
Given the state of things these days, it's assured that the lowest common denominator is where the money's at. If I were Justin, I would have boundless pride about this site and wouldn't trade it for cheap wealth.
Apropos to the topic, last week, I thought about submitting this article to dslr but didn't because I thought the relevance was just a post on a Friday open thread of a few months ago. But, there is an interesting nexus, N.B.:Some teens, however, say security and privacy -- already a common concern among parents and teachers -- are dampening their enthusiasm for MySpace.
Over the summer, Birnbaum's friend Chrissy Quantrille discovered an impostor had taken her photos off her MySpace profile, set up a fake page and even used it to establish a romantic virtual relationship with a boy in California.
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| kind comments about dslr but myspace is worth the billion news corp paid for it and a whole bunch more! It is a friendster that works, it allows people (of a certain age) to keep up with each other. I guess it continues to launch the careers of musicians as well. It has also been safer than relying on email where emails from friends are scattered among spam and trojans. I doubt many myspace addicts even use regular email anymore for anything other than signing up to sites like myspace!
But I've seen those news stories reporting that some users realized that myspace is where you put friends that you don't keep in touch with anymore, and sending "wassup?" messages to each other or "nice pic!" or "love your new design" is tissue-thin social interaction. While obviously true, I'm not sure if those negatives are large enough to be a growth problem for "Tom".
I saw myspace has slavishly copied craigslist in building a member to member classifieds system. Fascinating to see if this can ever challenge craig -- even with everyone under the age of 26 being on myspace. |
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