I’ve never been much of a mySpacer, but lately, I’ve tried to ”keep up” so that I know what “the kids these days” are up to and don’t seem like an “old fart “. If anything is an old fart, it’s the interface structure on that thing. Customizing it is really a joke. Sure, you can change the backgrounds and maybe this or that. Oooo, you can “hack it” (though I use that term loosely) to give something an opacity so I can’t see a damn thing! Oooo, you can add a damn auto-starting song that takes a fortnight to load, thus dragging down your entire page and what do I get for my patience? An earload of angsty screaming, a 1000 pixel-wide sparkling hoochie “avatar” and an animated space and stars background. Lucky me. It’s nested table upon nested table upon nested table. And then that nested table told two friends and so on and so on and so on…
Don’t get me wrong, I respect the creators for creation’s sake. I couldn’t program that thing! I’m talking strictly front end. It’s obviously not an issue for most people who use it, but for me? Man, the ugly is enough to keep me away. Poor, innocent colors… *tear* Of course, I realize that not everyone knows how to do that stuff, but I do and it still took me like 6 hours to find my own arse in all that code. Of course, there’s probably an 11-year-old punk somewhere who could customize it and have it make me a sandwich in like 15 minutes, so what do I know?
I hate that it makes me deny people. Why am I forced to break up with them when I’ve never met them? Hey, their request was unsolicited! If I don’t want to add them, let me just delete it, don’t force me to have the “it’s not me, it’s you” talk. And also? It’s rude! I mean, how rude! If I don’t want to add someone, it’s usually not personal. It’s either because I don’t know who you are or or know someone who knows who you are. But, not adding them doesn’t mean I want to be like, “No way, SUCKA!”
I don’t understand why there are 45 places to put things. You put them in the bulletin or the blog or the comments? Or in an email. I like the bulletin, but then why have a blog? I don’t get it.
And as elitist as this sounds (whatever), it bugs that it refers to each blog entry as a blog. Like, “read my latest blog…”. I mean, no one died and made me boss, so they can call it a box of assholes for all I care, but it doesn’t sit right in my ears. You have a blog. You blog your entries (or posts). The whole thing is a blog. Think of it this way: the vagina is the entrance, but the whole thing is the… well, I don’t know what you call the whole thing. I guess you call it a vagina. But according to my calculations, the main event itself is the vagina. Or is that the vaginal canal and the whole package is the vagina? How did I even get on this topic?
Anyway.
