[Perfectlap]

That website has caused me more problems, dramas and other b.s. than any one single thing that has ever come from the internet....hands down. What a headache.


In a non-sexual way (or maybe not!), our modern culture has become extremely voyeuristic. Keeping our personal lives personal has become outdated and uncool.
sign of the times I guess. Its the "full access" that has made its growth so explosive where more limited access sites like friendster have failed. Myspace fully exploits that unavoidable human emotion to spy on others you don't know and worse those you do know.There's just something creepy about peering into the personal lives of others and even more bizzare is that all the participants do it willingly.

I don't know if its the Paris Hiltons, Jessica SImpsons and reality shows, etc. broadcasting personal lives in full public view on TV and in print 24/7 that have convinced us that letting complete strangers see our personal sides (usually in the name/quest of getting tail) is ok. We complain about people invading our phone/email privacy, stealing our identities, stalking! etc. while on the other hand we broadcast our friends, family to anyone with an internet connection. An insane contradiction.
Those dudes at myspace are laughing all the way to the bank while people play into those negative human tendencies (jeaoulousy, greed, voyeurism etc) on a daily basis.

p.s.
There was a GREAT article about myspace in June's(?) Vanity Fair. "Hobie" aka Jeremy Jackson from Baywatch now a 26 year old reformed meth junkie plays a big role. Though he has no money, lives with his mother and has to go to his neighbohr's(and 12 step counselor) house to use their internet!!!, he spends endless hours promoting night clubs in LA stripmalls while putting notches in his bedpost. A great read on the business end and how Fox bailed out Myspace's parent company from a mountain of legal problems by buying them out for cheap.