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Written by Angel Sevilla
Jul 28, 2010
I first opened my Myspace account back in 2004 just so that I could look at someone else’s profile (you had to be a member to do that back then – they had rules). At that time Myspace was all the rage with the cool kids, so I decided to keep it.
I was 16 and my social networking skills were at an all-time low. But it turned out that my profile customizing skills were top notch. I had the page with all the cool graphics and music playlists. I had a place to display my pictures so that the entire world could see how cool I had become.
Now I’m 23 and over it. I haven’t used Myspace in ages. So the other day I put “delete Myspace” on my list of things to do.
But the next day I signed on to the site for the first time in a year and a half and everything looked different. Myspace has changed so many things about the layout of the home page and the navigation that it actually looks a lot more like Facebook. All of this change piqued my interest, so I went surfing around Myspace’s never-ending web of friendships for one last hoorah, just to see what I’d been missing.
As it turns out, I’d been missing nothing! Nothing good, anyway. Myspace has apparently become a place for teenagers to hook up with each other and leave inappropriate comments on each others’ inappropriate pictures. I kept seeing names like #1bABYmama and HOT.cuz.I.got.IT.lyke.DAT on the pages of teenage girls claiming to be 99 years old. There are provocative photos of them taken in a mirror with their iPhones. Under the photos, others posted comments like, “You look good ma. I would hit that.” And the response from the girls? “Thank you.”
Someone needs to tell these girls that “thank you” is not the appropriate response to “I would hit that.” The appropriate response is, “That’s nasty, you nasty boy! Please don’t write on my page ever again!”
Then again, the whole situation could have been avoided if the provocative pictures had never been posted in the first place.
Parents should monitor their children’s Internet activity! It seems as if these kids have free rein to do whatever they want, whenever they choose to do so. This is not OK.
The banner ads posted on Myspace should be enough to warn parents that young people should not be there. One of the ads posted on my home page, for instance, was for meeting hot singles in my area. If that showed up on my page, then it must be showing up on the kids’ pages too.
After seeing all of this I was certain about my decision to delete my page, but Myspace never sent back the confirmation e-mail. I tried several times to delete it, but still no e-mail was sent. So I basically I tried to cancel my membership, and Myspace told me “No.”
It’s an evil corporation.
