Myspace

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Their "friends" setup is bizarrely broken. You can't see anything but photo and their chosen "display name," so you don't know who some people are after a few months when they change their pic to Woody Woodpecker and start calling themselves Antonin Artaud.

I find myself thinking "Who is Potatoes O'Brien?" or "Not only is this woman not Audrey Hepburn, but I don't know anyone who lives in Macon, Georgia. WTF?"

Then it gets funnier with email. Today I forwarded something and saw how that works; you get the list of display names from which to choose. Two of my friends chose the same one, it being their first name. So I didn't know whether I was forwarding to turnip or salome_st_john. Fortunately they have similar senses of humor so I just sent it to both.

It's strange how many recently-built human artifacts are like ancient fucked-up things that Just Somehow Happened.

Comments

[hydrozoa.livejournal.com]

i know potatoes o'brien but it took me a really long time to memorize it. and there are like eight leahs on my LJ friendslist, but luckily, only a couple of them are on my myspace list. OR IS IT JUST LUCK

yeah, that thing is only good for finding friends from high school and checking to see if anything is going on in your town tonight. but it's really, really good for those things.

[salome-st-john.livejournal.com]

It's also good for making yourself really miserable a) in the aftermath of a break-up, b) while having a fit of insecurity during the course of dating someone you don't quite trust, or c) while feeling insecure about your life in general and perusing the pages of the people you thought you were friends with/were once friends with/never were friends with and find odious but still are secretly fascinated by/whatever.

NOT THAT I HAVE EVER DONE AND/OR FELT ANY OF THIS

Also, there did not used to be so many Leahs. I swear.

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

"MySpace makes stalking easy and fun!"(TM)

[salome-st-john.livejournal.com]

Oh, it does, it does! And it makes it easy to make up stories to either make yourself miserable OR feel better about the people you stalk, too, because you get such an thoroughly one-sided view of their lives. I mean, if you are stalking them in the first place. Stalking being such an ugly word.

Anyway.

[switchstatement.livejournal.com]

i uh, i have my ex-girlfriend's myspace BOOKMARKED. jesus christ. i used to think myspace was just static and useless, but you've made me realize that's worse than that.

[salome-st-john.livejournal.com]

Here to help!