Social Networking

Social networking has bloomed over the past few years, with the front runners being Facebook and Myspace. Myspace is the one I am most familiar with, and there are distinct pros and cons to it, and social networking as a whole.

The obvious pros are that you can connect with a vast variety of folks, from different walks of life, in different places, and who enjoy various activities. Myspace is an excellent place to pick up chicks, or communicate with them, particularly if you get stressed out around the opposite sex or find yourself fumbling telephone conversations. Myspace lets you connect and find other people who have similar interests, through the uses of clubs or groups. It also allows for folks to show pictures of themselves, and put a little chunk of who they are (whether accurate or not) to show anyone who comes looking. Myspace also is a new youtube, with lots of amusing, and annoying videos added daily (for annoying see that Crocker idiot). Myspace allows people to advertise businesses, music, themselves (as in the case of politicians).

However there is a darker side, one of annoyance and immaturity. This is the seething underbelly of filth, and that is “Myspace whores”. This term is not to imply physical looseness, merely an over usage and reliance on Myspace. The usually victims of Myspace whoreism are women from the age of 13 to 36, though many men are affected as well. What happens when someone becomes a Myspace whore is this: they begin posting bulletins (messages that are visible to everyone on your friends list). There is absolutely nothing wrong with posting bulletins, in moderation. But the Myspace whores slowly but surely begins to increase the bulletin number per day, to insane proportions. Soon things like “im going to bed txt me plz” or “got back from school” or “IM DELTETING YOU IF YOU DON’T COMMENT ME” start filling up. I literally counted 11 of these bulletins in a two hour time span, from one person. The underlying mental philosophy is that all of the people in your friends list actually care about your daily “goings on”. This self centered behavior is almost always incorrect, unless the friends list consists exclusively of the individuals’ mother, and in most instances Myspace whores can just open the door and let mom know what they are doing. Further signs of Myspace whoreism are posting lots of surveys (one or two a day is plenty), having a ton of pictures at weird angles, (such as a camera below the sink) negative emotional messages about how their life is terrible, and chain mail.

However, if you don’t mind a few cluttered bulletins, and advertisements saying, and I quote “Find Ur Crush!” (I shudder every time I read that), social networking is worth the time and effort.