Comments on: Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/30/delete-your-myspace-day-is-here-also-final-day-of-cba-voting/ News, Insights, and Humour Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:27:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Saskatchewan Politics - Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting | Saskapedia http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/30/delete-your-myspace-day-is-here-also-final-day-of-cba-voting/#comment-91858 Saskatchewan Politics - Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting | Saskapedia Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:22 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/30/delete-your-myspace-day-is-here-also-final-day-of-cba-voting/#comment-91858 [...] Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting January 30th, 2008 I was reminded of International Delete your MySpace Account Day, when I got a MySpace “friend request” from a naked woman. The day has been dugg by thousands, and will no doubt put a temporary dent in the MySpace account total, and then a minor spike as it enters people’s radar again. Seriously, who uses MySpace [if they ever had] since Facebook rolled around? Expect Delete your Facebook day later this year? [...] [...] Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting January 30th, 2008 I was reminded of International Delete your MySpace Account Day, when I got a MySpace “friend request” from a naked woman. The day has been dugg by thousands, and will no doubt put a temporary dent in the MySpace account total, and then a minor spike as it enters people’s radar again. Seriously, who uses MySpace [if they ever had] since Facebook rolled around? Expect Delete your Facebook day later this year? [...]

]]> By: Roy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/30/delete-your-myspace-day-is-here-also-final-day-of-cba-voting/#comment-91648 Roy Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:44:05 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2008/01/30/delete-your-myspace-day-is-here-also-final-day-of-cba-voting/#comment-91648 Ooo! Ooo! I love it. Delete your Myspace day - haha! Very good. I like Adam Goldhamer/ Purple Duck Films "how to facebook" videos too. I don't need a Facebook account to understand & appreciate them and they appeal to my sick & twisted sense of humor. I've never had accounts with either of those networking sites. Many years ago I belonged to some IRC channels (what a nightmare!), and I've been a member of topic-specific forum communities. I like blogs & blogging, and email lists. I feel badly for University & younger aged internet users who find & help build an internet "home away from home" - only to have the place go corporate on them sometime later and degenerate into...all the worst things about Myspace & Facebook! I'm particularly irked by older folk in my age range who seek out youth-populated internet hangouts specifically to "give the kids the benefit of my wisdom" on subjects like; religion, politics or social cause issues. There is a very young but talented person whose youtube videos I stumbled upon, who had a video in which he very creatively called out to his peers for help in getting their "little corner of the internet" forum home cleaned up. Out of curiosity I visited the site long enough to figure out what he was talking about. It was populated primarily by teen cyber-video geeks, probably 80% males, and run by a very capable-seeming 16-year-old moderator. It was...exactly what you would expect - lots of fart jokes, lots of sci-fi program worship, lots of "hey guys, I did THIS funny thing today" type of stuff. I was delighted to see that one of them had, as his posting signature, a picture of some predator that used to prey on the network their forum is on, complete with the creep's name and the phrase "so-and-so is a pedophile! beware!" They are not so helpless, often, as their parents believe them to be. Go teen vigilantes! Anyway, I found their little "treehouse on the 'net' " kind of moving and thought what a crime it would be for places like that - built and run by the kids themselves - to be invaded by professional health, religion, social or political cause pushers. Hopefully the mods would have the sense to ban such bores after their first posting. Ooo! Ooo! I love it. Delete your Myspace day - haha! Very good.
I like Adam Goldhamer/ Purple Duck Films “how to facebook” videos too. I don’t need a Facebook account to understand & appreciate them and they appeal to my sick & twisted sense of humor.

I’ve never had accounts with either of those networking sites. Many years ago I belonged to some IRC channels (what a nightmare!), and I’ve been a member of topic-specific forum communities. I like blogs & blogging, and email lists.

I feel badly for University & younger aged internet users who find & help build an internet “home away from home” - only to have the place go corporate on them sometime later and degenerate into…all the worst things about Myspace & Facebook! I’m particularly irked by older folk in my age range who seek out youth-populated internet hangouts specifically to “give the kids the benefit of my wisdom” on subjects like; religion, politics or social cause issues.

There is a very young but talented person whose youtube videos I stumbled upon, who had a video in which he very creatively called out to his peers for help in getting their “little corner of the internet” forum home cleaned up. Out of curiosity I visited the site long enough to figure out what he was talking about. It was populated primarily by teen cyber-video geeks, probably 80% males, and run by a very capable-seeming 16-year-old moderator. It was…exactly what you would expect - lots of fart jokes, lots of sci-fi program worship, lots of “hey guys, I did THIS funny thing today” type of stuff. I was delighted to see that one of them had, as his posting signature, a picture of some predator that used to prey on the network their forum is on, complete with the creep’s name and the phrase “so-and-so is a pedophile! beware!” They are not so helpless, often, as their parents believe them to be. Go teen vigilantes!

Anyway, I found their little “treehouse on the ‘net’ ” kind of moving and thought what a crime it would be for places like that - built and run by the kids themselves - to be invaded by professional health, religion, social or political cause pushers. Hopefully the mods would have the sense to ban such bores after their first posting.

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