P.C or not P.C

[mysfytvisions]

I have a shameful confession to make. Though I have kept it hidden for so long, feared the embarrassment and ridicule of going public, it is time for me to face judgement. It is not something I am proud of and I know that the atonement will be difficult to endure, rehabilitation tortuous, but I can hide no longer. To take that first step on the

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[kaymay]

I love and hate myspace. I've gone on dates with guys from there, and caught up with old friends who live out of state. I've also dealt with jealousy issues over a certain page who the owner continuously pisses me off on there. I've nearly deleted my page a thousand times, and I can't really blog on there like I can on here.

I'm addicted to it though. I'm constantly logged in, and I refresh about a million times a day. I do surveys on there every chance I get. It has caused me immeasurable grief though. Or maybe I've caused it myself. Whatever. I'll still be there.

[mysfytvisions]

See...it's never affected me at all this way.The most grief it's ever given me is having to live with the knowledge of being ignored :P

But then, I've never really used it for the 'social networking' they're always rabbiting on about - I tend to limit the friends list to those who were already friends. Or those who become friends by talking to me. I tend to delete non-friendly people - as in those who never stop by to chat, or those so obviously only interested in collecting numbers - on a regular basis.

And obviously, I'm not into the dating bit :P

[tinawiesen]

Hmm...I guess I've been oblivious to the labels attached to having a MySpace page. Which, after giving this about 2 minutes of thought, makes perfect sense, really. I've never done or avoided much of anything because of what 'somebody' might think of me, unless my choices have the potential to hurt someone, including myself, so I guess I just never cared to give the label thing any thought before.

I do rather like the analogy of 'a city'. It is indeed whatever you make it out to be.

[geo4real]

Wow, this is new to me, probably because I've never really thought of MySpace as a place that has anything to do with me or to offer me. I always thought it was strictly for kids, and figured that I'd be as out of place there as I would be in certain kinds of clubs. Same with FaceBook, which I thought was limited to college kids, but I recently found out that it's open to all, and that my eldest and most sensible and long-out of university child has availed himself of it. I'm signed onto both sites under a pseudonym, but only to track what my kids are up to (haha!)

The article you linked was awfully snarky about social networking. It's easy to get fed up with any term that is over-exposed and over-used, but honestly, isn't that what we're really doing on all these sites? Creating links and connections between people that in many cases would never otherwise be possible?