My girlfriend's 12-year old nephew lives on Myspace with his "peeps" :-| We monitor his site and social network and some of the crap we see from these little kids (especially the 11-year old girls)-- wow :eek: It's bizarre and hard to believe kids are like this nowadays. When I was 11-12 I was afraid of girl's :lol: not posting obscenities, rap lyrics about gang-banging, and being involved daily with what essentially come's down to a digital whorehouse for wannabe Britney Spears children. Sad. :sad: +, it's such a tacky site with ugly, overloaded pages rife with animations. I thought people realized how BAD so much animation made your page look and how much it overwhelms page loads. (well, I guess the average, non-techie has no idea about that or could even care.)
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Matty
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M.Y.S.P.A.C.E.
Meet Your Stalkers, Peter And Cindy Edmonton
Change the names if you like, but I still think it's completely true.
Excellent!!
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Overall - Myspace = Waste of time and waste of brain cells
Most definately. ;) The company I've been programming for has a MySpace; when I first started and was told: "Check out our MySpace!", I went to it begrudgingly, suspiciously and upon it finally loading thought... "NO!" :eek: :evil::o
MySpace has name-branding no different than Coca-Cola or Nike, now-- this is great for the owners and their profit-margin, obviously, but terminal for web-culture not to mention society. The only positive I can see in it is that it will hopefully be a starting-point for web newbies (kids) to eventually fall in love with computers and realize there are much better options out there where you can both make friends and learn (like Daniweb, for example). I am not suggesting everyone should or can be a hardcore techie, but, please, it would take no effort to find better alternatives to Myspace if one was so inclined. :)
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i made up one for Vista.
Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
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i made up one for Vista.
Viruses
Infections
Spyware
Trojans
Adware
:lol: Nice ;)
mattyd
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actually i think i heard that somewhere.....
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actually i think i heard that somewhere.....
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread61714.html&page=3#post277864
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=85556
And that's as far as I can trace the origin of that acronym...
Regarding the original topic: MySpace is a fad. It's something that all the teenagers want to go on, partly to socialize, but mostly because everyone else is doing it. And given the popularity of the teens on it, businesses figure they can get popularity on their page if they make one.
And agreed with the page quality on MySpace, most of the authors have no concept of web page design. Perhaps they should go on DaniWeb instead of MySpace; at least they'd learn how to design web pages properly ;).
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ah after rereading some old magazines i have discovered that i picked up the VISTA acronym from Peronal Computer World so please give them credit for it :)
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i like myspace.
sorry i'm weird i guess.
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Only social networking site I use is Facebook, which still has a nice clean interface. I can't stand myspace pages though, they're about as bad as and . I will admit, I'm basing that on approximately 2 page loads though (took less time to close the tab than it took to load the page :p)
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christina>you
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If I needed to socialize with random strangers on the Internet, I'd just head to DaniWeb.
John A
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The thing is, that I know 99% of the people I have on my list on myspace... but I agree... DaniWeb is a nice place to socialize with strangers. :)
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i always feel safe on daniweb
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daniweb isnt as involved with personal information like myspace. but my profile is set to private, so yay. no worries.
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