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I finally joined this Myspace/Blog nonsense

M

Mill

Lifer
I've decided to share with AT my most inner desires.

I kid. I've resisted (quite easily) for some time from joining Myspace and/or having a blog, but after constant nagging from a friend I finally acquiesced. Feel free to mock me and enjoy the "blog." I'll probably update it excitedly for a few days, stop giving a damn, and then leave it to languish.

Looks cool. Just watch what you say about our moderators over there, since, as you know, we're everywhere. 😉

AnandTech Moderator
 
From your rant on MySpace:
I got bored while working on some of this Franzia "Chillable Red" Box Wine, and decided to thoroughly emasculate myself in the name of a ****** website for Emo-Kids. Well, not everyone here is an Emo-Kid, but if you?re going to commit suicide you likely have a page on Myspace. Even though that?s nowhere in my plans, I just want to be prepared in case 20-30 years down the road I decide I?m tired of life. Of course I jest.
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There's no need to deride MySpace as something for Emo-Kids -- sure, it is. But how many emo kids are actually on MySpace? I don't know. But MySpace has three to four million people around your age on it. Many of them, might be interested in meeting you or engaging in sexual relations if you go through this weird ritual of commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, then meeting in person. In five years, the ritual will require commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, speaking over VOIP integrated into your IM client (Will it still be AIM?), and then engaging in passionate sex.

Be happy, though, you're not going to miss out, you've become part of it. In fact, calling other people Emo-kids'll even make you cool in this odd MySpace circle. Because it's a lot easier to be cool if you just put other things down. It lets you just completely dismiss other people's arguments. I do it; it's easy and fun. Since emo's already over anyways, at least as a cultural force with any meaning (and by that, I mean some vaguely defined recurring circle of consumerism), it's good form to make fun of it. At least if you want to fit into other people that adhere to these odd circles of consumerism, which are most of the people out there you want to meet, which are people that use the internet, which is MySpace's target audience.

They are certainly reaching that audience -- MySpace serves 10% of the internets ads, and Rupert Murdoch, a very smart man, paid more than one half billion $USD for it. Facebook, a competitive service, has an average 85% penetration rate -- which makes it an enormous social tool, at least where it's used highly. Most of its users, log into the site once daily. University alumni maintain similar login rates.

We are the MySpace generation, whether you like it or not. Generation Y is the other official name. I doubt you'll like that name better. You might as well just embrace it.
 
Originally posted by: KevinF
From your rant on MySpace:
I got bored while working on some of this Franzia "Chillable Red" Box Wine, and decided to thoroughly emasculate myself in the name of a ****** website for Emo-Kids. Well, not everyone here is an Emo-Kid, but if you?re going to commit suicide you likely have a page on Myspace. Even though that?s nowhere in my plans, I just want to be prepared in case 20-30 years down the road I decide I?m tired of life. Of course I jest.
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There's no need to deride MySpace as something for Emo-Kids -- sure, it is. But how many emo kids are actually on MySpace? I don't know. But MySpace has three to four million people around your age on it. Many of them, might be interested in meeting you or engaging in sexual relations if you go through this weird ritual of commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, then meeting in person. In five years, the ritual will require commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, speaking over VOIP integrated into your IM client (Will it still be AIM?), and then engaging in passionate sex.

Be happy, though, you're not going to miss out, you've become part of it. In fact, calling other people Emo-kids'll even make you cool in this odd MySpace circle. Because it's a lot easier to be cool if you just put other things down. It lets you just completely dismiss other people's arguments. I do it; it's easy and fun. Since emo's already over anyways, at least as a cultural force with any meaning (and by that, I mean some vaguely defined recurring circle of consumerism), it's good form to make fun of it. At least if you want to fit into other people that adhere to these odd circles of consumerism, which are most of the people out there you want to meet, which are people that use the internet, which is MySpace's target audience.

They are certainly reaching that audience -- MySpace serves 10% of the internets ads, and Rupert Murdoch, a very smart man, paid more than one half billion $USD for it. Facebook, a competitive service, has an average 85% penetration rate -- which makes it an enormous social tool, at least where it's used highly. Most of its users, log into the site once daily. University alumni maintain similar login rates.

We are the MySpace generation, whether you like it or not. Generation Y is the other official name. I doubt you'll like that name better. You might as well just embrace it.
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I'm not generation Y really. I'm more Gen-X than anything, but that's predominately because I was born right at the cutoff (Jan 83), and because most of my friends are 26+. There's actually a very major difference between myself and my friends, and that of people who are a few years younger than me. I grew up right at the cusp, and therefore have a mixture of both, but due to older friends X dominates me.
 
According to Wikipedia, Generation X is:

The term is popularly associated with the people born between, roughly, 1961 and 1981, although this is disputed. Generation X has also been described as a generation consisting of those people whose "teen years were touched by the 1980s", as such, many people that are considered part of the generation had their teenage years stretching into the 1990s."
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Sure, maybe some of your friends embody some of the ideas of those that formed the core of Generation X, but most Gen X'ers are 30 by now, and now the cut-off for someone anyone our age will actually associate with is 40. "Don't trust anybody over 40!" is a new rallying cry. Regardless, the label of the generation doesn't even matter. What matters is that people are comfortable using technology, which includes you (probably to the extreme, given your posting on a technology forum over a pretty substantial portion of your life) are using MySpace and actually using blogs to communicate with each other.

You can do it with a little more class than them, if you want. That means you don't need flashing colors and all the ****** those kids like. Use mature, bold tones and a confident typeface if it makes you happy. I recommend a good serif font as a good way of showing this. You're half part of the MySpace generation, whether you want to be or not. In the future, will the internet isolate you from your older peers? No, you'll probably talk to them on the phone, or whatever you do now. However, if they continue using technology, they'll eventually reach social networking, on MySpace or whatever similar service launches to capture your segment of the market. Maybe it'll be the social networking tool Google bought, Dodgeball.

Social networking and online communities in general are certainly the real killer app of the internet, and you've already become a part of it, whether you like it or not. They're also the real generational barrier between X and Y. Maybe you will end up being a generation XY'er, but I have a feeling the real barrier will be drawn at those who embrace the internet for social purposes. Choose now. I have a feeling where you'll really fall in the generational cut-off, though, whether you like it or not.
 
MySpace is retarded. It's more of a dating site, if anything. Bunch of pervs and freaks. Livejournal is where it's at! Although, lot of freaks there too.
 
i refuse to have a myspace account due to the emo kids reason.. and sh!t, no one on that entire site (you being an exception) can make a fvcking page look even remotely half-a$$ed
 
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: KevinF
From your rant on MySpace:
I got bored while working on some of this Franzia "Chillable Red" Box Wine, and decided to thoroughly emasculate myself in the name of a ****** website for Emo-Kids. Well, not everyone here is an Emo-Kid, but if you?re going to commit suicide you likely have a page on Myspace. Even though that?s nowhere in my plans, I just want to be prepared in case 20-30 years down the road I decide I?m tired of life. Of course I jest.
Click to expand...

There's no need to deride MySpace as something for Emo-Kids -- sure, it is. But how many emo kids are actually on MySpace? I don't know. But MySpace has three to four million people around your age on it. Many of them, might be interested in meeting you or engaging in sexual relations if you go through this weird ritual of commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, then meeting in person. In five years, the ritual will require commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, speaking over VOIP integrated into your IM client (Will it still be AIM?), and then engaging in passionate sex.

Be happy, though, you're not going to miss out, you've become part of it. In fact, calling other people Emo-kids'll even make you cool in this odd MySpace circle. Because it's a lot easier to be cool if you just put other things down. It lets you just completely dismiss other people's arguments. I do it; it's easy and fun. Since emo's already over anyways, at least as a cultural force with any meaning (and by that, I mean some vaguely defined recurring circle of consumerism), it's good form to make fun of it. At least if you want to fit into other people that adhere to these odd circles of consumerism, which are most of the people out there you want to meet, which are people that use the internet, which is MySpace's target audience.

They are certainly reaching that audience -- MySpace serves 10% of the internets ads, and Rupert Murdoch, a very smart man, paid more than one half billion $USD for it. Facebook, a competitive service, has an average 85% penetration rate -- which makes it an enormous social tool, at least where it's used highly. Most of its users, log into the site once daily. University alumni maintain similar login rates.

We are the MySpace generation, whether you like it or not. Generation Y is the other official name. I doubt you'll like that name better. You might as well just embrace it.
Click to expand...

I'm not generation Y really. I'm more Gen-X than anything, but that's predominately because I was born right at the cutoff (Jan 83), and because most of my friends are 26+. There's actually a very major difference between myself and my friends, and that of people who are a few years younger than me. I grew up right at the cusp, and therefore have a mixture of both, but due to older friends X dominates me.
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There's no way you're Gen X if you experienced the 80s when you were 5-7. Hell, being born in 76 i barely consider myself a Gen X.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: Mill
Originally posted by: KevinF
From your rant on MySpace:
I got bored while working on some of this Franzia "Chillable Red" Box Wine, and decided to thoroughly emasculate myself in the name of a ****** website for Emo-Kids. Well, not everyone here is an Emo-Kid, but if you?re going to commit suicide you likely have a page on Myspace. Even though that?s nowhere in my plans, I just want to be prepared in case 20-30 years down the road I decide I?m tired of life. Of course I jest.
Click to expand...

There's no need to deride MySpace as something for Emo-Kids -- sure, it is. But how many emo kids are actually on MySpace? I don't know. But MySpace has three to four million people around your age on it. Many of them, might be interested in meeting you or engaging in sexual relations if you go through this weird ritual of commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, then meeting in person. In five years, the ritual will require commenting, messaging, speaking over IM, speaking over VOIP integrated into your IM client (Will it still be AIM?), and then engaging in passionate sex.

Be happy, though, you're not going to miss out, you've become part of it. In fact, calling other people Emo-kids'll even make you cool in this odd MySpace circle. Because it's a lot easier to be cool if you just put other things down. It lets you just completely dismiss other people's arguments. I do it; it's easy and fun. Since emo's already over anyways, at least as a cultural force with any meaning (and by that, I mean some vaguely defined recurring circle of consumerism), it's good form to make fun of it. At least if you want to fit into other people that adhere to these odd circles of consumerism, which are most of the people out there you want to meet, which are people that use the internet, which is MySpace's target audience.

They are certainly reaching that audience -- MySpace serves 10% of the internets ads, and Rupert Murdoch, a very smart man, paid more than one half billion $USD for it. Facebook, a competitive service, has an average 85% penetration rate -- which makes it an enormous social tool, at least where it's used highly. Most of its users, log into the site once daily. University alumni maintain similar login rates.

We are the MySpace generation, whether you like it or not. Generation Y is the other official name. I doubt you'll like that name better. You might as well just embrace it.
Click to expand...

I'm not generation Y really. I'm more Gen-X than anything, but that's predominately because I was born right at the cutoff (Jan 83), and because most of my friends are 26+. There's actually a very major difference between myself and my friends, and that of people who are a few years younger than me. I grew up right at the cusp, and therefore have a mixture of both, but due to older friends X dominates me.
Click to expand...

There's no way you're Gen X if you experienced the 80s when you were 5-7. Hell, being born in 76 i barely consider myself a Gen X.
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