Social Networking

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:10 pm

Not sure if this is a good title for the content... but oh well, here goes...

Today I decided to check the myspace that was designated to my by a "friend". This is the first time I've tried to with PG2 running.

No less than 1,700 IPs were blocked as I logged in. GD... that's insane.

What I want to know is why people are so obsessed with networking such as facebook, friendster, myspace, etc... I mean when I go to any place where there are public computers, 9 out of 10 people are browsing one of such sites. Yes, I live in America.

Is it laziness, Americaness (the whole "I'm important because I'm stupid, bigoted, and 'popular'"), or the unlimited potential to make yourself look more "pimped" than you ever could be in real life?

Then again... there are some who use it for business. I understand and can like this. I beleive IH actually has it's own facebook. Main reason I wrote this was a 24-minute wait in logging into myspace because PG2 blocked so many ****ing IPs...

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Okay, that said, who's up for a Poll ?

Which is the best:

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:28 pm

i guess a large part of it is because Humans are predominately social animals who like to communicate to people inside and outside their normal social circles. Myspace is probably the front runner for its broadness and customisable options, although Facebook has its own magazine Rolling Eyes

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:32 pm

I was really tempted to click the last one...

I'm reminded of this old picture someone sent me once...

warning the following may be a little disgusting...
http://www.carloan321.net/chat.jpg

...I'll just leave it as a link so you aren't forced to look at it unless curiosity gets the best of you...

...ironically the NAMBLA episode of south park is playing behind me right now...

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:33 pm

HBS wrote:

i guess a large part of it is because Humans are predominately social animals who like to communicate to people inside and outside their normal social circles.

Good way to put it... Man you reminded me, I forgot the hypocrites on VF... lol I remember watching people cuss each other out and flame for months over stupid crap... like if good charlette is good enough to out-punk fall-out boy... lmfao

Quote:

Myspace is probably the front runner for its broadness and customisable options, although Facebook has its own magazine Rolling Eyes

Yeah... that's kinda what I was thinking. FB is more elitist, MS is the social sl**. Am I swearing too much lately? I'll calm down Wink

A little.

C_F... I don't watch SP... but is This what you mean? lmfao

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:37 pm

lol though i should say... im reminded of how facebook is really friggin annoying with its constant crappy application spam and its forward post spam. And all the emails notification options you have to turn off every time some one farts lol..

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:40 pm

I'm not all that keen on most social network sites, but I have to admit I love it here Smile

Crooked_Ferret wrote:

warning the following may be a little disgusting...
http://www.carloan321.net/chat.jpg

My eyes, my eyes... damn you, Ferret, you have cost me my innosence Smile

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:46 pm

I don't really use anything like MS or FB. I do take a peek at 1 of my old friend's spots on MS occasionally. We're not really close enough anymore for me to take the time to talk to him...but I like to see an update every once in a while.

I must say, though...sometimes if I'm googling something and a page comes up I do get tranced into reading their profile and maybe 1 or 2 of their friends. Just some classic lurking.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:57 pm

bennygogo wrote:

Just some classic lurking.

Heh... true I moved around a lot as a kid and I still am trying to track down all my older friends... heheh

Nothin wrong with that, unless like you said there's nothing there anymore... then you're just a freaky stalker... lol

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:59 pm

1337Cyndic@ wrote:

then you're just a freaky stalker... lol

oh no....busted!

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:03 pm

lol

Nah... you're just a blank tv broadcast... I should know, that's all I get... lol

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:31 pm

I made a myspace account over are year ago, harldy ever go in it, Ive 5 freinds, one is mate who lives round the corner from me, another one is a random freind wih a 45 yo woman who has zillions of freinds, and the other three are spammers trying to sell me there albums. I just relized how ironic thar last bit was.

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:33 pm

trollster wrote:

and the other three are spammers trying to sell me there albums. I just relized how ironic thar last bit was.

lol if you like it, dl it Wink

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:38 pm

Leet got me thinking about lurking...and then I thought of Trollster and how he's always "right there" ready to pounce on a spammer.

So I found you this

EDIT:: I fixed it. Wink

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:40 pm

LOL! I actually had that page in my signature for a while... lol

That would be awesome... a social network for trolls only... lmfao

I'd be a paladin and join the site... lol a level 100 one pwning some trollies... lol but not trollster...

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:43 pm

1337Cyndic@ wrote:

lol a level 100 one pwning some trollies... lol but not trollster...

Hey, no pwning little Troll or his Godfather... or I'll have Scully make you an offer you can't refuse Smile