The MySpace Dilemma

[generic_blog21]

Hmm…you know lately I’ve been thinking of getting a MySpace page, but I just can’t bring myself to do it. You see, when I think MySpace, I think ‘virtual playground for kiddy-fiddlers’, and even though I’m 20, I’m still hesitant to publish my own personal information all over the net. And I know you can make the profiles ‘friends only’, but then

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[inference]

For someone to go searching for you on myspace, they would probably have an account already, filled with bad photos and bad spelling & grammar, so I doubt that seeing your account would make that much difference. And you can just not list yourself under any schools, I think that's the main way that someone you know would come across your profile.

[inference]

Oh yeah, and myspace doesn't do much to stop you having your privacy - livejournal stuff is more private, and I find it funny when I stumble across public livejournals of people that I know.. because it's more likely to have private things. When I see people I know on myspace, I know (or have assumed) most of the stuff that's in their profile usually.. sometimes their answer to the sexual orientation question can be a bit of a surprise though.

[ponk]

Ooh, whose sexual orientation questions surprised you? I am nosy.

[inference]

Just some people I know, mostly friends of friends.. I can't really think of anyone that you'd know tho

[ponk]

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