A Place For Sucking...Donkey Balls.

Done. Finished. So long and good riddance. MySpace, my first introduction to the current social networking craze on the internet. I have always had a love/relationship with MySpace since I hopped on board about 4 years ago. I was on it earlier than that for a brief time but the child like behavior from the adults I knew and the emo shit heads had me running away. I did come back to it about 4 years ago to stay (or at least I thought) when I started connecting to old friends that I have not seen in years. I even stated to put up with some of the common bullshit that plagues MySpace like…

1. Layouts that are incredibly hard to read. Seriously, if you do not have a clue about color space or readability, DO NOT fuck with the layout. Those pages were as cluttered as their tiny little minds.

2. Glitter graphics. Sorry to my gay friends for what I am about to say. This is not directed to the gay community and it is in the vein SOUTH PARK…what faggot came up with glitter gifs? I want to stab you in the eye…faggot.

3. Fake profiles. Fucking posers…

4. Improper use of the bulletin area. This grated my nerves so bad I wrote a pretty gnarly blog post on that.

5. Porn Spam accounts. This got old quickly. Some whore with a whorish stripper name like Candi, friend request me and all of her friends were middle aged pervy men. What is even sadder, is that the men on the whore's friends list probably actually believed that there was actually a real women attached to that account. Losers…

6. The site had by far the worst set of tools for communicating and awkward ways to actually getting to communicating with others. Other social sites seem to get it right.

Even with this shit, I prevailed and stuck it out because I started interacting with old friends that I have not seen in many years. Then I reluctantly joined Facebook. I say "reluctantly" because I did not like that I could not customize the layout and not many were there on the site…yet. However, I found the lack of customization actually a blessing in disguise because. EVERYBODY's page on FB was the same. No bullshit and very easy to see things. Everything is in the same spot. Period. Another thing that was a blessing is that most of the emo bullshit and child like behavior was nowhere to be found on FB. Overall Facebook is a more pleasant and easier experience than MySpace ever was. Two years ago I discover Twitter and it was game on. Facebook easily connected to Twitter. I slowly started withdrawing from MySpace mainly because I had more friends on FB and Twitter and it was just easier to communicate with them there than on MySpace…and less bullshit too.

Last year I decided that MySpace would be put on the backburner. I told everybody that I will no longer actively communicate with them there. I cleaned house and removed a ton of loser and other various phony people. I kept primarily the music groups and some comedians to keep track of tours and what not. That was it. I stopped checking daily for messages. I just could not stand it anymore…the site was just a mess. MySpace made it worse this week.

I saw a link posted on Twitter this week. To make it short, MySpace is to change its ToS where it will be allowed to sell YOUR data to marketing and ad agencies. Anything that is attached to YOUR profile…photos, blog posts, addresses and etc. Anything and everything. When I signed up, that was not part of the ToS. I did not agree to it at all. That was it…it pushed me over the edge.

So…good bye to MySpace, it was kinda fun for awhile. Thank you for connecting me to some old friends. However, your inability to address your shortcomings, various other bullshit and now you selling my personal data…all I can say is fuck you and good riddance. I will now sit back and watch you circle the bowl.