Comments, testimonials, stalkers, fake pictures and now newbies.
Well, let's face it. MySpace has been flooded with so many 'weird' users, polluting every space they know and stalking people as if there are no borders. In fact, no 'borders' exist, and even when profiles are set to private we still receive 'ugly' friend requests - you know what I mean. Rempits, girlfriends of rempits, confused kampung profiles and others similar to it are threatening the fore users of MySpace - whose many profiles dated back to its pioneer year of 2003.
P30pLe wh0 tYpE liKe tHiS and those whose grammar is at critical level (I hates my life? You sucks? I loves my fwens? Dunt b like a fucking person? U make me annoying? What are the fuck?!) are multiplying in the MySpace squatter zones. Users like these grow in numbers day by day, conquering our once favourite website, making it overrated as ever.
Who, or in this case, what is going to save us? (No, not Friendster)
And Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Of course, it is not new - it was created February 4, 2004 - almost as the same time Friendster and MySpace were born. Though existed for a relatively long time it knocked the popular culture (that is, ours) just up until recently; and it is certainly not a hybrid of Hi5 or, God forbid, Kawanster.
That's about Facebook; check it out for yourself if you don't have one as I'm seriously not writing this to promote the site (and I'm not very good at recommendations either). It's about this wicked phenomenon, critical as it is slimy, that is hitting 'Malaysian' MySpace severely, up to its notches. It's becoming a burden to approve and deny requests; my requests are beginning to pile up due to my indecisive habits of approving. And up to a level of annoyance, those with weird names, fake pictures, and private profiles (with dumb locations like sTrawbEwWy lAnD - though it may be Cameron Highlands of some sort) will be denied straight away.
Nevertheless, if he or she is a friend in a real life, there will be some sort of exception. Like Haziq in his old days loved to put Naruto-oriented display pictures. And how some of us have certain fetishes for Garfield and Initial D. And Barbie, but that was a long time ago - and now we certainly not supposed to be acting like newbies. Even VGA images taken from certain angles (imagine pout lips with phones raised at extreme vertical level) are deemed treacherous, though still acceptable.
(Again, there are double standards for this - if you're hot than it's OK, but if you're not, don't over do it alright, kids? 'Angles' are just a big no-no.)
Despite all this we all still tend to waste half of our lives browsing through pages and putting up comments - and for some cases and for those who still do - decorate their pages with HTML fancy codes, and by that, I mean over-decorating their pages. Glitzy flakes pouring half way down through your monitor are surely damn cute, and yeah, we really appreciate your large variety of music tastes that coincides with multiple video clips here and there. But lo and behold, if one mistook the codes from a wrong site (especially HTML rookies), spams sprout. And if you happened to befriending one of this users (usually newbies or old users who just don't learn), you'll get those really unwanted Macy offers of handbags, and other things more exotic than handbags.
However we all may have understood that, when there are people, there will be problems. And in a case involving 200 million accounts worldwide (and counting), surely some problems would occur. Strangely and ironically, for a country with a large MySpace population (face it, everybody seems to have MySpace nowadays) there is no allocations nor offers for MySpace Malaysia to be set up. Friendster seemed to have been realising this, though, but Tom just like to see us being stacked up in the Global website instead of having a regional (read: Malaysian) MySpace site for us.
Again, strange. And ironic.
Quite a large number of people have started to realise the increasing MySpace drawbacks. Typical (read: old) MySpace users are beginning to rage sinister outcries of the non-beneficial and ugly side of the site. During the recent months Tom and Co. surely have worked hard to fight spam and ensure everyone had their portion of personal space while the deal of privacy seemed to have deteriorated.
But hey, sunshine is still around. As long as there is people that we love and loath in our forever beloved friend list, who cares? They are the reasons to stay, besides those hotties and cool people residing at the highest class of MySpace hierarchy. Sure we'll keep denying rempits and grammatically-challenged people (here's a hint: there's another language called BM that you can use, even we're using it) and not replying ignorant messages, because as long as there are friends, MySpace is forever relevant.
Now, drop some comments at my page will ya?!
MySpace.com/Syukri has been existing since 2004, and from the ages of Sony Cybershots to the advent of DSLRs, the page is still breathing. Add up if you don't! And yeah, try Facebook. I have nothing against newbies using MySpace, of course, go on! Spread! I can use the 'block user' button anytime, anyhow.
Well, let's face it. MySpace has been flooded with so many 'weird' users, polluting every space they know and stalking people as if there are no borders. In fact, no 'borders' exist, and even when profiles are set to private we still receive 'ugly' friend requests - you know what I mean. Rempits, girlfriends of rempits, confused kampung profiles and others similar to it are threatening the fore users of MySpace - whose many profiles dated back to its pioneer year of 2003.
P30pLe wh0 tYpE liKe tHiS and those whose grammar is at critical level (I hates my life? You sucks? I loves my fwens? Dunt b like a fucking person? U make me annoying? What are the fuck?!) are multiplying in the MySpace squatter zones. Users like these grow in numbers day by day, conquering our once favourite website, making it overrated as ever.
Who, or in this case, what is going to save us? (No, not Friendster)
And Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook. Of course, it is not new - it was created February 4, 2004 - almost as the same time Friendster and MySpace were born. Though existed for a relatively long time it knocked the popular culture (that is, ours) just up until recently; and it is certainly not a hybrid of Hi5 or, God forbid, Kawanster.
That's about Facebook; check it out for yourself if you don't have one as I'm seriously not writing this to promote the site (and I'm not very good at recommendations either). It's about this wicked phenomenon, critical as it is slimy, that is hitting 'Malaysian' MySpace severely, up to its notches. It's becoming a burden to approve and deny requests; my requests are beginning to pile up due to my indecisive habits of approving. And up to a level of annoyance, those with weird names, fake pictures, and private profiles (with dumb locations like sTrawbEwWy lAnD - though it may be Cameron Highlands of some sort) will be denied straight away.
Nevertheless, if he or she is a friend in a real life, there will be some sort of exception. Like Haziq in his old days loved to put Naruto-oriented display pictures. And how some of us have certain fetishes for Garfield and Initial D. And Barbie, but that was a long time ago - and now we certainly not supposed to be acting like newbies. Even VGA images taken from certain angles (imagine pout lips with phones raised at extreme vertical level) are deemed treacherous, though still acceptable.
(Again, there are double standards for this - if you're hot than it's OK, but if you're not, don't over do it alright, kids? 'Angles' are just a big no-no.)
Despite all this we all still tend to waste half of our lives browsing through pages and putting up comments - and for some cases and for those who still do - decorate their pages with HTML fancy codes, and by that, I mean over-decorating their pages. Glitzy flakes pouring half way down through your monitor are surely damn cute, and yeah, we really appreciate your large variety of music tastes that coincides with multiple video clips here and there. But lo and behold, if one mistook the codes from a wrong site (especially HTML rookies), spams sprout. And if you happened to befriending one of this users (usually newbies or old users who just don't learn), you'll get those really unwanted Macy offers of handbags, and other things more exotic than handbags.
However we all may have understood that, when there are people, there will be problems. And in a case involving 200 million accounts worldwide (and counting), surely some problems would occur. Strangely and ironically, for a country with a large MySpace population (face it, everybody seems to have MySpace nowadays) there is no allocations nor offers for MySpace Malaysia to be set up. Friendster seemed to have been realising this, though, but Tom just like to see us being stacked up in the Global website instead of having a regional (read: Malaysian) MySpace site for us.
Again, strange. And ironic.
Quite a large number of people have started to realise the increasing MySpace drawbacks. Typical (read: old) MySpace users are beginning to rage sinister outcries of the non-beneficial and ugly side of the site. During the recent months Tom and Co. surely have worked hard to fight spam and ensure everyone had their portion of personal space while the deal of privacy seemed to have deteriorated.
But hey, sunshine is still around. As long as there is people that we love and loath in our forever beloved friend list, who cares? They are the reasons to stay, besides those hotties and cool people residing at the highest class of MySpace hierarchy. Sure we'll keep denying rempits and grammatically-challenged people (here's a hint: there's another language called BM that you can use, even we're using it) and not replying ignorant messages, because as long as there are friends, MySpace is forever relevant.
Now, drop some comments at my page will ya?!
MySpace.com/Syukri has been existing since 2004, and from the ages of Sony Cybershots to the advent of DSLRs, the page is still breathing. Add up if you don't! And yeah, try Facebook. I have nothing against newbies using MySpace, of course, go on! Spread! I can use the 'block user' button anytime, anyhow.
10 comments:
good one! ;D
ditto on your arguments.
btw, Facebook was once a elite community where ppl got in by invitation. then when they finally allows email registration, new users are required to use their university email address (read: international unis, meaning no Msian Uni) to be part of the pack. if youre not part of any uni society, youre a nobody.
when it finally hit our side of the world, anyone can be in facebook.
i miss the times where everyone HAVE to be part of a uni network hehehe..
anyhows, syukri, helloooo from BJ!
ehhh! why i cant delete my comment?
so many grammatical error. :/
ugh.
haha okey joyce :D
and namie, hello! eh I pegi BJ a lot tau nowadays! I slalu pergi rumah a friend kat jalan ubin. Facebook was elite, and will stay elite. except for the fact that it's out on the magazines, and it's large!
anyway you can delete your cmmt lah if you want (right?)
abih? tak reti singgah? hmph :/
cannot :(
theres usually this bin icon where you can delete your comment. i think i have to be a user only the bin is visible. oh wells.
yeaha ... true true.
new york times would love this kind of work x)
but alas, my acct is new haha, it is the second acct. the first was deleted due to extreme anger and frustration (guess i was tryna prove a point to someone) so this is new. not THAT new la. but im an old user.
hahaha.
you my dear, have a flair in writing and photography. ah, how i envy u ;)
cheers.
typical Syukri, very cynical. agreeing without a slight doubt though. and speaking of comments, sila rajinkan diri ye! and write more will you :)
wait am I cynical?! No! haha. although I do tend to be like one, I don't like to be called one. anyway I still need the tics, you know what I mean.
then, let's go buy lah! I guess the one I bought dah habis, kot. but it's J.Morrison! cepatlah!! let's go buy!
very well written, i must say... i've abandoned my myspace profile for quite a while now, despite being one of the first few who registered...
p/s: Syaza & Syuk, u ppl goin for LNLKL acoustic night izzit? c u there if u are :)
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