It was only a matter of time, but it looks like the marketing scumbags are kicking their bullshittery into high gear on MySpace. They’re breaking rules, mining personal data, and pretending to be peoples’ friends in order to get their names seen and their wares sold. It’s fuckin’ sick and manipulative:
Using special tools, marketers and people seeking fame on MySpace can game the system and take advantage of what experts call “unintended features” allowed by the Web site. These features include data mining of profiles on the site and automation of messages to members. It is possible to mine the service to pinpoint MySpace members in particular regions and with specific interests–a punk music fan from San Francisco, for instance. The marketers can then blast out hundreds of requests to their targets, asking them to join their network of friends.
Then again, can we really expect better of these people? They whore themselves out in every other way, so why not this one? And all these clueless Myspace users are adding them to their Friends lists without seeing if they’re actual people or not. Oh well.
I think the REAL whores are the MySpace users. Have you seen the extent some of those people go in order to sell themselves????
“Let’s post our parents’ secrets on the Internet!”
– Millhouse VanHouten
“No, we need to reach people whose opinions actually matter…”
– Bart Simpson
MySpace is such a crappy looking interface, it looks like a 2 year old made it. I never caught on or understood it’s appeal.
And doesn’t some multi trillonar own it now? scum bucket.
as a (now self conscious) myspace user, i can say that i don’t put any major effort into my page. it is side line bit of entertainment and i have been fortunate enough to actually acquaint myself with some interesting “folk”. it is also something of chance to pimp out some of my recent pieces of art.
that aside, i have seen, and know of, more than a few of the mentioned whores. like about any internet social interface it’s all about the looking sexy and getting laid. at least for some.