In Defense of MySpace
A while back I made a post detailing my feelings about MySpace. Which is to say a lot of the pages there are not exactly easy on the eye. I’m pretty sure this isn’t news. On the other hand, MySpace is free. This is a pretty tough price to beat.
I had a long time ago signed up with Classmates to see what ever happened to to all the folks at Anchor Bay. Once upon a time anyone could post to the school forums and talk about the “olden days”, find out who married who and who’s now in prison. All for free. But sadly Classmates changed that policy and they now hold as much information as they can for ransom. Here is a web company trying to make money! Imagine!
Now enter MySpace which also lets you allows you to enter information about your school/s and also search for users who graduated the same year as you. Or, as is more often the case with MySpace users, users who will graduate the same year as you. There’s also a forum for each school where you can talk about the “olden days”, find out who married who and who’s now in prison. All for free as God intended the internet to be.
Right away I found several class o’ 86 grads (20 years! Crikey!). Conversations with one of my fellow Tars has even spilled over into AIM and it’s been great fun talking about our time and the people at Anchor Bay. In spite of the fact that neither one of us was terribly popular or particularly outgoing back in high school we still somehow managed to have many of the same friends and shared experiences.
So all that being said, I think my summary review of MySpace needs to be changed from: “Ugly” to “Mostly ugly… yet useful, free, and strangely compelling”.
I think you may have just talked me into a MySpace account. I’m so peeved at Classmates dot com I could just pull out my hair. I get emails from old classmates, but have to pay a membership fee to read them.
Any desire I had to be a member went the way of all flesh because of their pricing structure and strong-arm tactics.
So, here I go to–urp–MySpace. Look for my Purple page with white type and Unicorns where I look for members of the class of 88 and horny teenage girls.
Horny teenage girls on MySpace? Are you sure about this? MySpace seems to be a pretty upscale establishment 😉