Brad Paisley has a song out right now called "Online." It's some funny shit!
I work down at the Pizza Pit
And I drive an old Hyundai
I still live with my mom and dad
I'm 5 foot 3 and overweight
I'm a scifi fanatic
A mild asthmatic
And I've never been to second base
But there's whole 'nother me
That you need to see
Go checkout MySpace
'Cause online I'm out in Hollywood
I'm 6 foot 5 and I look damn good
I drive a Maserati
I'm a black-belt in karate
And I love a good glass of wine
It turns girls on that I'm mysterious
I tell them I don't want nothing serious
'Cause even on a slow day
I could have a three way
Chat with two women at one time
I'm so much cooler online
The average profile on MySpace tells me many of its inhabitants are young people who use the site to satisfy their alter-ego or position themselves in sexual or suggestive terms. Adults tend to gravitate toward places like Blogger and Typepad, although those services have their share of kids, which means deviants will follow.
The difference is, unless you publish your email address on your Blogger site (which I do) there is no vehicle to contact the author. It's not condusive to the meat-market scene or being a predator's playground. I've never received email from someone asking for a threesome... although maybe that's because they saw my profile picture. ;)
Now it's been divulged that MySpace had to delete 29,000 sites from its system because those people were known sexual predators. And those were just the ones who chose to use their real names.
It's too bad, really. MySpace was a great concept. It's just that too many people use it to get laid or prey on kids. Like restaurants or nightclubs, they are defined by their customer base. It is what it is.
3 comments:
Yeah Dave, we are the grown ups!!!!
;)
Hope life is treating you good!
I get emails now and then from people who want to be "my friend" on My Space. Of the 8 or 10 I've gotten, I only knew 2 of them. Are these people in some sort of race to see who can have the most non-"friends"?
I have a MySpace account solely for the purpose of reading a couple of blogs by people who write well, but appear too technologically clueless to manage blogger. I check the account about every 6 weeks, which means that any email/friend solicitations are by people who's accounts have been deleted by the system before I ever see them.
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