Myspace: The Anti-Christ

This is my first original article for this site, Associated Content. i Just sucked down one cup o' Joe, lit a Winston, and am about to get my second cup.

So, while being an avid user of Myspace, mainly for trying to promote my online comic as well as my printed comics, i've grow to hate and despise everything the site has become and done to the people who use it. Thirty years ago, if one were lonely and looking for companionship, all one would have needed to do was to walk or drive to the nearest mall/drive-in/bar and search out like minded people in the establishment. Coffee bars would be great for this now, seeing as most people looking for friendship are generally under the age of 21. The only problem is that nowadays, when walks into a coffee bar, there is almost no one talking to one another (aside from patrons who walked in together) and their usually on a computer, typing awayon either a project (legit use of time) or a networking site or instant messanger, stealing genuine human interaction from the human organisms residing in our loathsome country. i say "Our Loathsome Country" b/c i generally have a problem with both our society and our government, and Myspace isn't helping.

A society requires true human interaction. A functioning society, anyway. Here we are, first decade of a new and exciting, if not scary, millenium, and most younger people spend their time chatting away on their computers instead of going out into the world and finding all the interesting adventures it has to offer. Especially in our controversial and weary times. Although it is a good thing to find like minded people to express ideas with, doing it in person allows for wider spread, through word of mouth, and incites actions. But i don't see that. i read Myspace Bulletins talking about boredom and wanting to go out into this world, but no actions to follow through. i, myself prefer actions rather than meaningless conversations about being boredom and self imposed isolation. Especially when the isolation isn't so wanted. iT's turning people agoriphobic. That took some time to write out, agorophbic. Mainly b/c i should probably be sleeping right now.

All Hail The Lords Of iNsomnia!

Dating has suffered horribly, too. There have been numerous times where my friends have been in long distance relationships for YEARS. F**king YEARS! And met the person on the other end of the line once or twice. This distrubs me. Greatly. Dating is another thing which requires face to face interaction, but that rule apparently went right out the f**kin' window in the mid-Nineties. Thank you, internet. iT used to be a thing you would hear about nerds with no life doing almost exclusively. Or people with odd mental problems. Now, almost everyone does it and it drives me nuts. Hell, i know i'm guilty of it. And there isn't a day where i look back and shake my head thinking 'God, why was i so retarded?' This trend will probably continue until it's legal to marry over the telephone, or worse, Myspace, thus shoving out the idea of chemistry and actual relationships entirely. Which is horrible. iT really is. i know that both times i did this, it ended very, very badly, with the first attempt ending withmy sprint to my car in fear for my life. Not kidding on that note.

This then leads to our teenagers. Oh, what a shame it is to be a teenager these days. These kids now have so little going for them. Public education is shooting down the toilet at an alarming speed. Pop culture has raped every subculture on the f**kin' planet, producing a very ugly baby. Uglier than the Seventies, and that was one ugly decade. Myspace just enforces these things, helping these kids lose whatever chances they had at actually making a difference in the world by engulfing them in gossip and bullshit drama. Very few kids have i seen or met that actually have original ideas that would KiLL the pop culture monster before them, but with everything being raped or gossiped to death, they stand little chance of being noticed. What else is alarming is simply browsing Myspace and findling all the hip-pop zombies that have been created by MTV and BET. Watching either for more than ten seconds starts dropping ones i.q. at an exponential rate, which is why i stick with cartoons. But that's off topic. These kids have no where to go to actually learn about their world, especially when they sit on Myspace all day looking for other kids who share all the 'Alt Culture' ideas they do.

Speaking of which, Myspace has helped kill Alternative Cultures and bring their bloody, mangled corpses into the light of the mainstream monster. No longer are raver, goth, punk rock, indy, or, and i hate myself for this, emo even looked at as taboo or hush-hush. They've glorified them, copied them to their own blank palettes and turned them into common whores, just like MTV did with both Rap and Rock. iT's sad. And scary. What's left? The angry people. The people who are generally angry with the way the world is turning on it's axis of marketing and want to blow it down like the straw hut. Nothing's sacred anymore. Myspace took it, raped it, and turned it out.

My name is 3d Graffiti and i am the Big, Bad Wolf.

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