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 Blog day ought to be outlawed ;-)
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The final day of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards is here. The unveiling of the winners is going to be a little different this year, so expect the unexpected, or know that there will be known unknowns.
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And this is one of the final days where I’ll ‘grovel’ for your vote in the 2008 Bloggies, for Best Canadian Weblog. I’m in the final 5, so your vote means a lot to me.
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Roy | 30-Jan-08 at 9:44 pm | Permalink
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.
Saskatchewan Politics - Delete your MySpace Day is here - also final day of CBA voting | Saskapedia | 31-Jan-08 at 7:15 am | Permalink
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