16 Reasons Why MySpace Sucks
June 29, 2007 | by Jefferson | Filed Under Websites |
MySpace is the most popular social networking service (SNS) out there, with over 100 million user accounts and over 80% of SNS activity on the net. It’s also consistently ranked as one of the top 10 most-visited websites in the entire world by Alexa. Most people with two-thirds of a brain can figure out that MySpace sucks as soon as they log into the site for the first time, yet it continues to maintain its popularity. If you have a friend who likes to use MySpace, please refer them to this handy list of reasons why MySpace Sucks:
1. It is full of thousands upon thousands of spammer user accounts: If you use MySpace, you’re probably aware of the fact that you get a lot of friend requests from random people and music groups you’ve never met or heard of. This is because thousands of YouTube user accounts are maintained by spammers who use friend-adding programs to automatically add as many friends as possible. When they get thousands of friends, they post spam bulletins advertising stuff. MySpace has failed to take appropriate action to curb this massive abuse.
2. The site is slow: Anyone trying to use the site can expect a lot of messages such as “Server Too Busy,” “Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred. This error has been forwarded to MySpace’s technical group,” and so on. This is because MySpace’s servers are not powerful enough to host the traffic the site gets. Those spam bots use up a lot of site resources!
3. User-created profile pages look terrible and cause technical errors: Customizable profile pages are a nice thing, but when you allow customization to the point of having users completely f*ck up the appearance of pages and crash the browsers of those visiting profiles, your site sucks.
4. It is full of spyware: Industry experts have warned that MySpace is a “hotbed” for spyware and other malicious programs that can infect your computer.
5. It lets users crap-up their profiles with tons of videos and music: Nobody wants to see your favorite 20 music videos or listen to your terrible band’s music.
6. “Celebrity” user accounts: There are thousands of fake celebrity user accounts set up by their fans on MySpace. Why do people actually add these idiotic accounts to their friend lists? Is there something amusing about this? Frankly, it sucks.
7. Ugly advertisements everywhere: I guess if you’re already allowing users to make hideously ugly and broken profile pages, throwing hideously ugly and distracting ads all over your site isn’t a problem either.
8. There is no useful search feature: Want to search for your friends? People in your area? People with similar interests? Good luck with that: MySpace’s search tools are absolutely horrible.
9. Security flaws: MySpace has already proven itself extremely vulnerable to hacking, with the most famous case being one last year in which a worm turned thousands of user profiles into redirect links to a 9/11 conspiracy page. It may have not been extremely dangerous, but next time it could be…
10. Bulletins: This useful feature allows users to have their inboxes spammed with thousands of retarded chain letters and ads for bands. Amazing!
11. It is a haven for child molesters and pedophiles.
12. They are anti-human rights: MySpace recently launched a Chinese version of their site, readily agreeing to restrict users from seeing the truth about the Chinese regime’s crimes. Censored/Restricted topics include: religion, politics, Taiwanese independence, the Dalai Lama, and persecution of Falun Gong members.
13. MySpace is owned by NewsCorp: Rupert Murdoch’s evil corporation, which runs Fox News, also owns MySpace.
14. MySpace censors your political opinions: Those who go against the wishes of News Corp/ Fox News better watch out: it is well known that MySpace censors links.
15. MySpace users are stupid: If the ugly user-created profile pages, blogs full of idiotic and poorly-written crap, and terrible user bands aren’t enough to convince you that most of MySpace’s users are stupid, you can also see this study that shows they are statistically less-educated than users of other social networking sites.
16. MySpace is UGLY!!! I mentioned user-created pages earlier, but even the part of the site that isn’t user profiles looks terrible. [Computer geeks can also tell you that the code under the surface of the site itself is also ugly.]
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Oh, let’s not forget the annoying ads that scream “Hello!”, whenever you hover over it.
I agree, I can’t stand how you have to listen to everyones music when myspace loads too.
I just wrote on my myspace page: News Corp sucks the sweat off a dead mans balls. Suck a dick Rupert Murdoch, on my space. Lets see if that gets censored.
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hey great stuff…
ok. i agree on some of that stuff, but not all of it… some ppl have friends around the u.s. and cant get in touch with them, so they use myspace or something else. phone minutes are getting more expensive every year, and me personaly…i dont have that kind of money…so i use myspace, ya it sucks sometimes but id rather use it than pay almost a dollar a minute(depends on which phone plan), just to talk to my freinds that live in other states. and i Hate how it says that there is a technical error…and i have had to change my password 3 times b/c someone had hacked into it.It Sucked!!!
THANK YOU! Finally someone thats not a moron!
Hell Yes My space sucks. It is a cult of teeny boppers and child molesters who like to get in touch with eachother.I have no use for it. I belive it should get the same treatment as napster and get shut down.
Yeah, it does but I avoid all that crap and it works.I’m only friends with my REAL friends that I met in person.And my laptop is REALLY REALLY fast on myspace or anywhere.The only reason I get on myspace is to talk to my friends and write in a blog,which you can also go to www.opendiary.com that place is the 2nd perfect place to go to for a blog or online diary and it’s not popular at all.The say that it’s the lowest score of users, and it has only 2,367 users…doesn’t mean they all get online there.I went there a few days ago and they said there was only 38 people on there blogs.I think it’s a great place to go.And blogspot,blogger,other things.But, anyway MYSPACE STILL SUCKS!!!
I love myspace and you people have no brains.I’m going potty.
(not really tom)
i dont like myspace neither but i do like the concept. here is a better one it has all the features of myspace but with out the clutter and negative features. take a look for your selves. demo account is already set up just click login to try it http://www.friendview.net
Dump myspace and check out my site that PAYS YOU to do what you do on myspace.
Sign-up and create profile for FREE..
A no brainer…
I finally quit MySpace and left a nice little sign off letter, including a link to this article. And guess what? They’ve labeled the link as “spam/spyware/virus” and it gives you that phishing warning before it lets you click through. Just one more reason.
I like myspace. What I don’t like is that the last few weeks after about 10 at night I can’t connect. Ever. Oh, the sign up to pay for advertising works, but that’s about it.
I won’t lie, I too use Myspace, but I also enjoy my time on Yuwie as well.
Yuwie is filled with a great team of people and the founder of it all actually listens to what we have to say; and takes it into consideration.
That’s more than I can say about most sites who tend to completely ignore their users once they’ve gained ground in the market and are earning a healthy living.
Unlike many other social sites, Yuwie! is taking a twist on the whole social networking trend and actually sharing a part of its advertising revenue with its users.
Sure its pennies at first, but its still a baby only having a little over 500,000 members compared to the 200 million of Myspace and is likely more money than you’ll ever see from Myspace or Facebook alike.
So, why not give Yuwie! a shot? It’s free to sign up and you might be surprised to find that its not all that different than Myspace or Facebook aside from what I find to be a much more mature and family oriented audience.
Oh, and one more thing, Yuwie! DOES NOT tolerate spam. So, you won’t have to worry about being harrassed by those pesky porn bots with pictures of half naked girls begging to be your friend or the comment spam bots posing as your buddies rejoicing over how they just won a “$500 Macy’s giftcard”.
Yuwie pays by Paypal or Check, $5 cashout for Paypal and $25 for a check, and who doesn’t use Paypal nowadays? Sure Paypal isn’t without it’s flaws, but it still commands the lead over being one of the most safest and easiest ways to transfer money online.
Join Yuwie!
Holy crap this is so true..
LOL.
Okay, I’ll play devil’s advocate here. Some of your comments about MySpace are true. There are a lot of musicians on MySpace (I’m one of them). But the truth is that MySpace remains the BEST way for independent musicians to market their music to new audiences.
Thank God the people on MySpace (or the web in general) aren’t as close-minded as some of the people here, or indie musicians would REALLY be in trouble. But the fact remains that MySpace is the most popular site out there BECAUSE of the fact that it allows so much interaction. (By the way, I agree that News Corp sucks. If they get their way, the Republicans will ‘big-brother’ us all to death.)
I understand your point about searching for your REAL friends on MySpace, but let’s face it, MySpace was originally started by a BAND to promote their music, so of course it favors musicians. The whole “social” aspect of it was added as a marketing gimmick.
If you’re looking for a true “social networking” site, one where you can find your real friends online, isn’t that what Facebook is for? Or better yet, isn’t that what a TELEPHONE is for? That’s how I contact MY real friends! Maybe you should take a deep breath, get off the computer once in a while, and go hang out with REAL LIVE flesh and blood people. Try it, it’s fun!
What a revolutionary concept, huh?
Myspace is the worst social networking site ever … 99.9% of the profiles haven’t been logged into in years. Most of the profiles are (female)spammers trying to get you to sign up for some other site … its a shame to take such a good concept and ruin it. Myspace will fall … mark my words.
wow dude your fuckin lame ass, I think theres a reason Its one of the most viewed websites in the world …..
TOP 1 REASON WHY WHO-SUCKS … SUCKS
1. They have this fuckin stupid ass editor
Wow, if this sucks so bad, why not just go back to molesting people on *shudder* MySpace *shudder*.
MySpace does, in fact, suck. Half the people are molesters and the rest either have anger problems or are druggies.
someone didnt have any friends on myspace.
the person who wrote this is biased.
Sniff, I’m nearly in tears reading this :’). I HATE myspace, and you just gave me 16 more reasons to hate it. I used to just hate it because my ex-girl has one (stupid reason yes; do I care no), but now I have 17 reasons. THANK YOU! I have NEVER had a freakin’ myspace and NEVER WILL! It should be eliminated and I tell people this a lot. So my closing comments, are simply, THANK YOU MAN!
Jewxs own the damned site, so whatever they don’t aggree with they censor - so much for the freedom of speech. They deleted my profile without warning, simply because they did not like itr, but I couldn’t care less - the site is full of idiots, retards, niggas rap - a good hang out place for subhumans. Fuck it.
lol!I hate myspace.Though Myspace is not near as bad as Yuwie!You see all these people on here begging you to join Yuwie?There is a reason behind that.
Victor deserved to be deleted. What a fuckwit