MaximumTacolord created a myspace account after seeing askaninja doing it, figuring it’d be a nice way to build some press for his website. He was also pissed off someone took his tacolord name and wanted to keep his MTL one safe. This trend has been increasing a lot lately, somehow tacolord is getting famous enough just to get people to leech off him, not make him famous. No doubt he’s getting pretty frustrated by it all. After he created "his space," he realized he had no idea what to do with it. So I decided to investigate the matter, since I was equally ignorant on the subject. After about 20 minutes of research, here is my assessment:
Myspace is basically a chat program with no desire to chat. Rather, you talk about yourself with blogs, photos, videos, etc. Since everyone is chatting with themselves, something must be done to create a feeling of satisfaction. A means to show the world you haven’t wasted the last month of your life talking about how you wasted the last month of your life. This is done with the buddy list, in myspace terms, “Friends.” Usually a buddy list is a mass of names you never talk to, because only two or three people from it are actually acquaintances. This remains true, only everyone can see this “hive.” Askaninja has nearly 10,000 friends, despite askaninja putting nothing on the myspace besides content from his webpage. I’m fairly confident askaninja doesn’t even look at his own myspace. Below the “content” of an individual’s myspace, you can post comments. This is kind of like a forum, only everyone talks about either themselves or the owner of this space. Like most forums, English is a bastard language no one cares about, I doubt anyone actually reads these comments. If reading them is even possible.
What is myspace? In short, just one person talking about themselves while trying to get others to recognize this. In order to do so, they acknowledge others talking about themselves. Only the truly great spaces are those with no give and only take. Of course, those individuals usually gave a lot more overall and use myspace as a means of publicity. Basically, myspace is masturbating for a crowd. But no matter how great the crowd, you're just whacking off.
