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Topic: My Space?...You Mean I get My "OWN" Space?
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IScareWittyCommentsAway
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posted February 03, 2006 21:44
Once upon a time Little Billy created the internet and desided he needed a way to get people to sit at their desks and just be online. Thus he created...myspace. A place of joy, pain, silliness and of course the random werid/creepy dude that keeps messaging you.
How many of us here have a myspace?
ME!
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MandysRad
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posted February 03, 2006 21:51
Mandys Myspace
I do as well because I'm just hip and trendy. I'm also afraid it was little Tommy dearest. :-p
I've gotten bored with making webpages at midnight so now I just update this thing everyone once in awhile.
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IScareWittyCommentsAway
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posted February 03, 2006 21:55
Ooo I make layouts and take my own photos for the them and the other random graphics I make. Hehe...I'm a bit of a techie geek.
www.myspace.com/lalashanny
my lovlyer page. lol.
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drunkennewfiemidget
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posted February 04, 2006 08:23
quote: Originally posted by IScareWittyCommentsAway: Once upon a time Little Billy created the internet
Didn't you know? The Internet was created by a gentleman named 'Al'.
And I'll refrain from my comments on myspace, most people here already know my views on that particular site -- mostly because of the most common type of people to have accounts there. Not all, but most.
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posted February 04, 2006 08:58
I have a myspace but I think I just got one because everyone else had one. I don't use it very often. It's actually a neat way to keep in touch with people; I've had someone I haven't seen since the third grade contact me through myspace. But other than that, the whole site layout is really icky. I'd take livejournal over myspace any day.
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posted February 04, 2006 09:01
quote: Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: quote: Originally posted by IScareWittyCommentsAway: Once upon a time Little Billy created the internet
Didn't you know? The Internet was created by a gentleman named 'Al'.
And I'll refrain from my comments on myspace, most people here already know my views on that particular site -- mostly because of the most common type of people to have accounts there. Not all, but most.
Hahahahahah . So Paul Baran's development of packet-switched networks has nothing to do with the development of the internet?
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drunkennewfiemidget
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posted February 04, 2006 09:31
quote: Originally posted by CloneArmyCommander: quote: Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: quote: Originally posted by IScareWittyCommentsAway: Once upon a time Little Billy created the internet
Didn't you know? The Internet was created by a gentleman named 'Al'.
And I'll refrain from my comments on myspace, most people here already know my views on that particular site -- mostly because of the most common type of people to have accounts there. Not all, but most.
Hahahahahah . So Paul Baran's development of packet-switched networks has nothing to do with the development of the internet?
http://www.sethf.com/gore/
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posted February 04, 2006 09:54
quote: Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: quote: Originally posted by CloneArmyCommander: quote: Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: quote: Originally posted by IScareWittyCommentsAway: Once upon a time Little Billy created the internet
Didn't you know? The Internet was created by a gentleman named 'Al'.
And I'll refrain from my comments on myspace, most people here already know my views on that particular site -- mostly because of the most common type of people to have accounts there. Not all, but most.
Hahahahahah . So Paul Baran's development of packet-switched networks has nothing to do with the development of the internet?
http://www.sethf.com/gore/
Hahahahahaha . Well. . . it came from a politician, it must be true .
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posted February 04, 2006 10:37
MySpace must make Sir Tim cry. It is the anathema of web design...worse than Geocities. It's worse than LJ & Xanga combined. Argh!
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posted February 04, 2006 10:48
quote: Originally posted by dragonman97: MySpace must make Sir Tim cry. It is the anathema of web design...worse than Geocities. It's worse than LJ & Xanga combined. Argh!
"<Pax> I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself." -bash.org, #593081
I agree, and it's horribly programmed (I can't go 5 minutes without an error page then to reload finding it working) in ColdFusion. Not to mention it's a new breeding ground for cam whores. It is filled with emo and emo-posers (yes, sadly it is). It' sickening actually.
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The Famous Druid
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posted February 04, 2006 13:24
I adn't bothered with MySpace until I read this article. I'm signing up now !
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posted February 04, 2006 13:41
quote: Originally posted by The Famous Druid: I adn't bothered with MySpace until I read this article. I'm signing up now !
Yeah, I saw a snippet of that earlier today.
You'd not believe half the sh*t I've seen happen...please kids, think twice about what you put online. Everyone wants to believe that these are friendly community sites, but the part that few recognize is how easily strangers can look at almost *everything* you post, without your knowledge. Do you *really* want a complete stranger to be able to see your entire group of friends, and pictures of all the times you've shared together (and what clothing, or moderate lack thereof that you've been in), and a glimpse inside your personal life?
Honestly, /most/ people wouldn't care at all about other people's lives, and will ignore most of what's out there - but there are a few people who are warped, and what they can do with this treasure trove of personal information might give you pause.
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posted February 04, 2006 14:27
quote: Originally posted by dragonman97: quote: Originally posted by The Famous Druid: I adn't bothered with MySpace until I read this article. I'm signing up now !
Yeah, I saw a snippet of that earlier today.
You'd not believe half the sh*t I've seen happen...please kids, think twice about what you put online. Everyone wants to believe that these are friendly community sites, but the part that few recognize is how easily strangers can look at almost *everything* you post, without your knowledge. Do you *really* want a complete stranger to be able to see your entire group of friends, and pictures of all the times you've shared together (and what clothing, or moderate lack thereof that you've been in), and a glimpse inside your personal life?
Honestly, /most/ people wouldn't care at all about other people's lives, and will ignore most of what's out there - but there are a few people who are warped, and what they can do with this treasure trove of personal information might give you pause.
-dragon
That is scary. I'm fairly easy to find, so I always avoid putting personal information on the internet. Googling "CloneArmyCommander" returns 461 results (at this time of this posting), and they're connected to me .
The really scary thing is I had my real name and some information about me on a school web site, and I googled my real name (for laughs) and found that some company has my name and that information in a database, with my e-mail attached to it.
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IScareWittyCommentsAway
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posted February 04, 2006 15:44
Yes, a girl has to be very careful with the information she puts out there. I only have a myspace so that I can keep in touch with all my friends. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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posted February 04, 2006 17:41
quote: Originally posted by Demosthenes: I'm not a huge fan of the 'Space, but: http://www.myspace.com/threexonefourone
Enjoy.
Egads! It's the first MySpace page that I've seen that hasn't made me hit ^W immediately due to garish design. Congratulations. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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posted February 04, 2006 18:05
I have one. I don't bother linking to it or doing much of anything with it. The few things that I put in the blog there have also been posted here (the breadmaking story, for example).
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posted February 06, 2006 08:22
Hmmh...after taking a peek at the site, it looks similar to what we had with CommunityWare/WebbMe back in '98, in that you can create communities (public or private) which have journals (like our old forums), Web hosting, etc. Nothing new under the sun, apparently.
One of our employees had to constantly prowl the Web hosting space, looking for all the warez and porn people were hosting in that free space. That's one reason why I won't do Web hosting as part of EMinds or Venice. (The other reason is that would piss off our colo provider, as we'd then be in competition with him...)
Just like one of those articles says, we don't let people under 13 use EMinds either. (The main reason has to do with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, which imposes such strict requirements to protect children's privacy that we'd never be able to cope with them all. See here for the gory details.) However, we have no way to know if users are lying about their age; the best we can do is, if we know there's a young kid behind a user name, we can delete it.
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posted February 06, 2006 09:06
quote: Originally posted by dragonman97: BTW, a new article of interest: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/myspace-is-under-investigation.html
I'm sick and tired of people blaming their own parenting ineffeciencies on websites.
You can use fscking GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH to find porn if you want it. Are they going to get investigated too?
It's up to parents to watch their children's surfing habits, teach them how to behave, what's safe, what isn't, etc.
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IScareWittyCommentsAway
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posted February 06, 2006 10:01
quote: Originally posted by drunkennewfiemidget: quote: Originally posted by dragonman97: BTW, a new article of interest: http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/02/myspace-is-under-investigation.html
I'm sick and tired of people blaming their own parenting ineffeciencies on websites.
You can use fscking GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH to find porn if you want it. Are they going to get investigated too?
It's up to parents to watch their children's surfing habits, teach them how to behave, what's safe, what isn't, etc.
Well...knowiing our srewie goverment I would have say...yes. Yes they would.
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posted February 06, 2006 13:04
A few of my brothers started using it for keeping in touch, so I have an account I check in on a few times a week.
http://www.myspace.com/sxeptomaniac
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