I'm not necessarily slamming anybody who has a myspace or facebook page.
But I am curious as to why people do have them. Any of you who have either, can you shed some light on this for me? Just a forewarning, I will be combative.:)
But I honestly don't get it.
I think it's the pictures.
There's no way I'd let my teenage son join it though...
Better make sure your new employer doesnt google you and see your site and find something wrong with it and not hire you.
I don't understand the obsession with MySpace and only recently even heard of Facebook.
There are these 3 doctors where I work, though, who obviously want to maintain very professional public images but all have MySpace accounts for their personal lives. Two of them have private profiles, but they post on the public profile of the third. They have no idea (not until I recently told one of them anyway) that half the office staff are reading their posts - which say things like "You're always getting wasted and leaving your pants at my house" - and making assumptions that they're sleeping together and spreading rumors about them throughout the office. I hope their patients aren't reading this too.
I'm not necessarily slamming anybody who has a myspace or facebook page.
But I am curious as to why people do have them. Any of you who have either, can you shed some light on this for me? Just a forewarning, I will be combative.:)
But I honestly don't get it.
It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. If it's just the one person, from the other side of town, clearly I'll call them. I barely ever facebook with the people on my list who are fellow Sydneysiders. But then there's friends across the wide brown land of Aussieland, in Korea, a whole bunch of European countries, North, Central and South America... the phone bill would kill me.
And it's a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.
It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. And a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.
It's a bloody lot cheaper way to stay in touch with my international friends than to pick up the phone. If it's just the one person, from the other side of town, clearly I'll call them. I barely ever facebook with the people on my list who are fellow Sydneysiders. But then there's friends across the wide brown land of Aussieland, in Korea, a whole bunch of European countries, North, Central and South America... the phone bill would kill me.
And it's a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.
I can honestly understand the first part of your post. International friends....that makes sense to me.
But the part about it being more personal...I disagree.....its like one of those letter I get from friends that are addressed to everyone. Like a random, "Im going to write one letter to everyone, and that way I feel like Im keeping up."
I hate those, they are so impersonal.
And myspace kinda reminds me of that. Its like saying, "I wont take the time to talk to you personally, so Ill just let everyone look at my myspace and see what I have updated."
I got rid of myspace. It was too distracting and the only reason I used it was to keep in contact with someone on here when the pit was down. We would be in the middle of a conversation and 5pm came and the curse set in.
So we would meet there.
I got rid of it because it was not the person I am . I was turning into someone I am not. Pictures, blogs, thoughts and feelings. It really is not me. I am more private than that. And the stalking got out of hand.
So I deleted it.
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
I got rid of myspace. It was too distracting and the only reason I used it was to keep in contact with someone on here when the pit was down. We would be in the middle of a conversation and 5pm came and the curse set in.
So we would meet there.
I got rid of it because it was not the person I am . I was turning into someone I am not. Pictures, blogs, thoughts and feelings. It really is not me. I am more private than that. And the stalking got out of hand.
So I deleted it.
so you were the reason I had one less friend recently? my feelings get hurt when someone drops me (which is dumb!) but now I understand.
9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
so you were the reason I had one less friend recently? my feelings get hurt when someone drops me (which is dumb!) but now I understand.
Aw...sorry.
I was getting messages and emails and people thinking I deleted them. lol
No, just ran it's course.
I enjoy keeping in touch with people but here is fine and email.
And I liked looking at your pictures with all of your rockstar friends!
Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Aw...sorry.
I was getting messages and emails and people thinking I deleted them. lol
No, just ran it's course.
I enjoy keeping in touch with people but here is fine and email.
And I liked looking at your pictures with all of your rockstar friends!
Yep, like Gavin Rossdale, my drinking buddy?
9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
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for me it's too much to keep up with. For one thing I'm always too lazy to upload photos.
Plus, I like keeping in touch with people from my hometown.
I think it's the pictures.
There's no way I'd let my teenage son join it though...
I don't understand the obsession with MySpace and only recently even heard of Facebook.
There are these 3 doctors where I work, though, who obviously want to maintain very professional public images but all have MySpace accounts for their personal lives. Two of them have private profiles, but they post on the public profile of the third. They have no idea (not until I recently told one of them anyway) that half the office staff are reading their posts - which say things like "You're always getting wasted and leaving your pants at my house" - and making assumptions that they're sleeping together and spreading rumors about them throughout the office. I hope their patients aren't reading this too.
And it's a bit more personal and interactive than emailing or on message boards.
exactly
I can honestly understand the first part of your post. International friends....that makes sense to me.
But the part about it being more personal...I disagree.....its like one of those letter I get from friends that are addressed to everyone. Like a random, "Im going to write one letter to everyone, and that way I feel like Im keeping up."
I hate those, they are so impersonal.
And myspace kinda reminds me of that. Its like saying, "I wont take the time to talk to you personally, so Ill just let everyone look at my myspace and see what I have updated."
Nuclear fission
So we would meet there.
I got rid of it because it was not the person I am . I was turning into someone I am not. Pictures, blogs, thoughts and feelings. It really is not me. I am more private than that. And the stalking got out of hand.
So I deleted it.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
so you were the reason I had one less friend recently? my feelings get hurt when someone drops me (which is dumb!) but now I understand.
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more
I was getting messages and emails and people thinking I deleted them. lol
No, just ran it's course.
I enjoy keeping in touch with people but here is fine and email.
And I liked looking at your pictures with all of your rockstar friends!
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Yep, like Gavin Rossdale, my drinking buddy?
8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
10/10 - Brad in B'more