Mosshead

myspace experimentation

January 25th, 2007

So, I recently rediscovered my login information to myspace and started playing around with it when a friend forced me to. It’s kind of fun. Unfortunately in a moment of pure geekiness, I chose a regrettable permanent url but oh well. If I ever decide I need to impress non-geekiness upon anyone, I’ll just set up a non-geeky glamor account.

I’ve had fun looking up old friends (the few on myspace anyway) and finding out what they’ve been up to. Years ago, I played around with classmates.com … it was less than satisfying when it became clear that perhaps I had lost contact with people because we didn’t have much to talk about (I mean, what does an atheist, childless lesbian have to say to missionaries, new parents and homophobic republicans?). I can go to a family reunion for all of that.

MySpace is a little different because you can spy on people to evaluate whether you want to reconnect; Aside from the skanks, it seems a lot of people on MySpace are probably actually doing stuff that makes it handy to maintain an online network.

In any case, I think my favorite thing about MySpace is discovering new music and movies.

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