MySpace- Applications, Layouts, Mob Crews, Oh My!

Many of us have a Myspace page, I know I am one of them. I started mine to keep in touch with family out of town and old high school friends. But what is this new addiction with MySpace I see? Every where I turn all I see are ads for layouts, applications, videos, you name it MySpace has it. Grown men and women are spending hour upon hour searching for people to join their groups, take their survey's, and looking for that perfect layout they change two days after they post it. In my own opinion, I cannot understand this craze.

LAYOUTS-

Seriously, is there really a need for over 30 sites to pick a layout from? I know I change mine maybe twice a year, if that. I see friends of mine changing theirs more than they change their underwear. If you look, you see 15 calls for MySpace holiday layouts on the front page of Associated Content. Is it really that important for people to keep up with the changing seasons, holidays, and sports themes? What's interesting is those that are taking the time to make them. Where in the world do you find all that time? Maybe if they figured out a way to bottle that and sell it, they'd be rich.

APPLICATIONS-

I am so tired of getting those "join my crew" bulletins. And as soon as I figure out how to get that darn application stuff off my page, its coming down. I see grown adults obsessing over "mob" crews, and it makes me shiver. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with an adult acting like a child now and then, it's what keeps us young. But to see grown women and men boo hoo'ing over people not joining or sending those damn "pet my new pet" comments is down right disgusting as well as scary. I swear those little pets are eyeballing me every time I deny one of the comments, might even see a tear or two.

SURVEY'S

One word for those: STOP. Have you ever sat and read those surveys? They read as if I were still in high school. I was reading one the other day that asked me to name my coolest teacher, a boy I liked, what was I wearing, and what was I going to grow up to be. Talk about making me feel old. Most of them are the same too. Until you add in those ones that when you open them, you read "if you don't re-post, you will lose the love of your life", or "someone in your family will die tonight by 8 pm unless you re-post." What!! If I lose the love of my life because I did not re-post a god awful MySpace bulletin, there is something not right in the first place. And who thought up telling people a family member would die for a silly non re-post.

MYSPACE CHAT ROOMS-

If you have not entered this dark hole far from humanity, I beg you not to. I went into those twice, I will never be the same. I witnessed grown men and women flirting with teenagers. I saw young kids giving out their phone numbers, addresses, and talking about who they banged last night. I gave it a fair shot, I tried a few rooms that were supposed to be 18 and over. They were really no different. It really was a disgusting place. MySpace chat is one of the very few rooms I also noticed no moderators ever came in. Maybe they ghost it, maybe not. It's probably a very good thing I am not a moderator, I don't think I'd let anyone stay in the rooms period.

PICTURES-

There really should be a better way to stop these teenagers from posting what I consider to be close to porno pics. Other than the fact they obviously aren't being checked up on by their parents, MySpace needs to take these down. All it would take would be for a moderator to see a picture of a teen that shouldn't be up, flag it, and take it down. End of story. To add to that, I have seen pictures from family and friends that really never should have been posted. No, I didn't want to see pics of your pregnancy chest, or your latest bruise that took you 30 takes to get the perfect view. Do you really need 20 albums with 30 pics in each one to show me your vacation shots?

IN THE END-

I simply don't see the great excitement grown adults are getting from obsessing over MySpace. I'd say my age was showing, but I see adults of all ages getting as giddy as school kids over these. Yes, it can be an interesting way to keep up with others. Yes, it can be fun, but something I need to devote hours upon hours on, no. As to all those other applications and groups, keep me out of it. I have much more real things to do than play around on your mob. As for my page, I don't give out my MySpace information, my page is private, no one under 18 may contact me, no bands, my friends list is under 50, and I flag every perv that does somehow send me a message. Good luck finding it, and no, that wasn't a challenge. I simply choose to keep my information as close to me as possible. I won't bore the general public with my family pictures, my latest moods, and I will never ask you to join my mob crew, I prefer to be a mob of one.