Todays Imponderable:
April 18th, 2006
When will dumb Myspace Surveys leave the pop culture palette?
I really think this is an issue. With bulletin explanations like, “I know you hate these, but I filled it out anyway” or, “I’m bored” and my favorite, “I’m bored Part 2″. I don’t know if it’s the survey or if it’s the overall lack of responsibility that your “friend” took 45 minutes to think up one word answers to whether they can remember who the last person they kissed or their first date. Almost as bad are the memories requests or as I like to call them the “Remember a time when I was cool and now tell me about it” post.
I know it’s raging against the machine that is not going away but I’ll do it anyway.
Also..while we’re here.. what’s the deal with the guilt ridden, “if you’re a christian…” or “if you love jesus…” bulletins and emails then I just forward an e-mail and then I don’t feel guilt ridden. That’s dumb. (editors note: I’m aware that I just gave a 4th grade answer to a problem.. but it IS dumb. so there) I suppose it would be one thing if something was awe inspiring or really well done but, it’s the cheezy cheap pictures of bunnies and waterfalls with really old music recorded badly. Or what about how you can depict jesus on the cross using punctuation marks? And then somebody says: “this is beautiful–i must share it”. I don’t want to share that stuff, I don’t want people to think I like it or that I’m inspired by it.
Give me some of your thoughts on this.. just click the numer next to the title of this post.
April 18th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
what about your friends with web based businesses that have multiple myspace profiles and each profile sends out twenty million myspace bulletins everytime something happens at said business? those are my favorite. as for memes, try this one (taken from http://www.dailymumps.com):
1. Your current mood, expressed via algebraic symbols
2. Two things you wish manatees would get through their fat skulls
3. One thing you ate today without realizing it (hint: most likely hair)
4. Your least favorite Chinese warlord (not counting Chang
Hsueh-liang, 1882-1948 … Hello, obvious!)
5. A pop song that reminds you of ironing
6. No kidding, the ironing’s really piling up. Get on that, would you?
7. Bow ties: Seriously?
8. Compose a tactful letter to God about the noise. (You might open by
complimenting his cooking, which it so happens you can smell through the
heating vents; then gently suggest that he turn down the Def Leppard after
10 p.m.; finally, praise the zinnias in his window planter.)
9. An early memory involving ironing. (Gotcha!)
10. Explain yourself. Cite examples.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:09 am
I think twenty million and 2 have a decent amount of difference… but point made. I would read bulletins about ironing any day over the other current options.
April 19th, 2006 at 7:42 am
2, huh? for some reason it seems more like twenty million to me. now i’m going to be counting.
April 21st, 2006 at 9:12 am
i believe it’s more than 35 million users… 20 million who aren’t really on myspace.
myspace is over.
now that myspace gets more than 2 times the traffic than google, i’m pretty sure google is going to launch war against myspace because we all know that google is going to take over the world.
don’t be evil.