Peeking at the idiocy online.
Submitted by AgentX
Since I had no idea of what this month's theme is, I decided to write about Myspace. As before, I will put [] with special instructions. Article starts now.
The purpose of the Outsider is to talk about how we Anime Leaguer's view the internet. Or something like that. Hell I don't know, I just write these stupid things. Anyway, it's time we talked about you-know-what. Yes, that's right, THAT . We can't ignore this subject any longer. It's the 800-pound gorilla that's come out of the closet where we stick Cousin Phil because he was drooling on your Playstation.
It's time we talked about MYSPACE (A.K.A MurderSpace, LolitaSpace, RapeSpace, PervertSpace, GangSpace, JailbaitSpace, DumbassSpace, we could go on and on here.). Yes that. Here we talk about the idiocy online; Myspace is covered with it like the gallons of fake blood you see in a Rob Zombie movie. But if there's so much, why read it?
a) It's like a train wreck; you can't avert your eyes.
b) as bad as AL can be at times, it can't ever get any worse than this.
For starters, let's take a look at their rule system. Here's one from the forum topic Breakups.
archimedes said
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It leads me to the conclusion that many of you do not understand how a successful discussion board works, so I have decided to make up these following guidelines to help you. This being the Love and Relationships discussion forum, let’s start with the definition: dis • cus • sion noun. 1. Consideration of a subject by a group; an earnest conversation. 2. A formal discourse on a topic; an exposition. The Love and Relationships forum is ... - NOT a teen-help hotline where we solve the problems you are having with the love of your life, whom you incidentally met only 2 weeks ago during homecoming. - NOT a place that employs psychics who can answer intricate questions such as "Why can't I meet girls?” - NOT a place that has qualified philosophers on staff who could answer age-old questions like “Why do [insert gender/race/species/age/hair-color] cheat?” - NOT a place where you ask if people want to have [insert sexual and/or dating activity here] with you. - NOT a place where you discuss or present morally and otherwise offensive material. Take the strong sexual innuendos to Adult Love & Relationships - NOT a place where discussion involves name-calling and/or harassment of other users – you are free to disagree with anyone, just do so in a polite and civil manner |
You know it's gonna be bad when the moderators gotta define what a discussion is. Let's find out if anyone even followed those simple rules.
James D O doublegizzil wrote
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| if you know my story your goin to hate me she came over again and we hooked up. I couldnt help it i was thinkin with my penis. Im so fuckin stupid. |
Which was replied by Latrisha and later by Keith with
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lmao.... I agree |
Bad grammer, no humor, violation of the rules. This is just the warm-up, there's a few other threads as well.
Can Myspace users handle a mature topic like racism? Nope, only took two posts before Spam and pointlessness came into the thread (unlike AL, myspace is set up in a way that you can't just zoom thru the spam to get to a decent posting) Take a look for yourself and see how bad it got.
Here!
It's decided then; Myspace users are good-looking, like these lovely folks (Free, arrange these side to side if possible)
Myspace users are just like everybody else, capable of suicide , matricide , homophobic violence , rape and pedophilia .
For those of you who use Myspace, I can only offer these tidbits of advice.
1) Don't expect a lot when it comes to intelligence of any kind. There might be a few people out there who can carry a conversation, but those are few and far between.
2) If you are out of high school and she/he is not, it might be one of those Pervert Watcher Groups. Back away from the keyboard and please DON'T send that picture of your knards. Even if it ain't a pervert watcher, kids don't need to see your stuff anyway (See Dateline).
3) No songs please. It's not the song itself; if you're not a WWE wrestler you don't need a theme song. If your friends all use library computers they aren't going to be able to hear the song anyway.
4) Ladies; just because a guy is cute doesn't mean he won't go berserk in Starbucks and start offing old people and kids in strollers with a sawed-off shotgun because you 'just wanted to be friends'. This is especially true if what drew him to you was his being 'into dark things' and 'hating people'.
If people want a social network, I suggest Craigslist. There you know the people are fucked up or nuts before you even stop by to visit. But hey, unlike DumbassSpace, you can see...naked people! Viva la shamelessness! (PS NOT SAFE FOR WORK, SCHOOL, YOUR PARENT'S COMPUTER, YOUR PRE-TEENS IN THE AREA)
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/135115460.html
http://www.craigslist.org/eby/rnr/135038245.html
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/134949302.html
http://www.craigslist.org/eby/rnr/134878724.html
http://www.craigslist.org/nby/rnr/134765998.html ----I couldn't say it any better myself.
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