Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Have you caught the MySpace Fever?

It's spreading fast!

I've immunized myself against it. Won't touch the stuff and we finally got it blocked at work. Damn people were killing our bandwidth with thousands of MySpace hits daily. Don't they realize I need that bandwidth for my time here?

Hahaha! Those bastards!!

MySpace freaks me out. Creepy people are on there. >.> Bad enough colleges have The Facebook, I don't need any other weirdness.

Plus, I've got my Live Journal for all my dorky blogging needs...

its slutty.

im on there.

Sounds about right.

I'm fascinated by it as a cultural meme, with all the attention that's been given to it in the news lately. Something else else that's the source of so many parents' nightmares -- if you give credence to the mass media -- has to have interesting twists to it.

(I see it as a matter of parents being lax and unattentive enough to imagine that the Net could be the new electronic "babysitter," supplementing the TV, and of course that's irresponsible. Yet it's far easier to blithely blame such a venue as MySpace.)

So, with one member here having begun a new Legion discussion group on MySpace, I've bit on the cultural bait and set up an account .

It seems nearly everyone there is a teenager or 20something. (Everyone's claimed age is displayed.) But a few of us who are older are around for seasoning ... and two have offered to be listed as "friends" already, in two days!

The discussions on several of my interests are intriguing, and after the seven-day new-member anti-spam waiting period, I look forward to posting in some of the forums. They bear less computing overhead than Yahoo! Groups. (With fewer features, though, such as a lack of file or photo storage.)

Those here who've also signed up, what are your MySpace direct links?

Don't have enough time to hang out on LW as much as I'd like, so I definitely can't vest time with MySpace!

My entire cast of supporting players is pretty much on myspace. That means everyone I've ever been friends with in High School, college, my hometown, etc. I've so far been able to fight it off and not set up an account. (Funny enough, someone did start an account and named it Des ***'s phone--not sure which friend yet).

I do have a facebook account though, and have been immersed in facebook craziness for some time. For those who don't know, www.facebook.com is a website like myspace for kids in college (re: you need a college email). Its amazing how many of my friends were still in college when this website started...lots of 5 year college careers

I've been on myspace for a couple of years now. I mainly use it to keep in touch with friends (real life ones) and to keep track of when certain bands play.

I'm on myspace too. And I use it exactly like Drake. Keeping in contact with friends and band listings.

sure you do Vu, why the naked pictures then?

(but seriously the band listings are the best part. you can find and listen to alot of songs in their entirety..can't download though. good ways to post events too...for example: my local bar uses myspace to send out notices for special happy hours or changes to the event days)

actually "my friends" portion of my myspace page is very funny....i don't know most of them, so i've got a lot of people that just wanted to add me and i've never spoken to them at all.

i usually just add everyone except i turned down this band today, becaus etheir music was really bad! my first person i've truned down.


anyone else on friendster.com? its like myspace but a bit older crowd, not as popular and not nearly as cruisy. its actually what i use to catch up with old college friends and stay in touch, relatively, to aquaintances or old friends. its not html based like myspace so you cant trick out your pages. (one reason for myspace's popularity...and why it attracts the younger/hip crowd) but...friendster is more of a reserved environment...i dont get random people messaging me hardly at all. (unlike myspace)

i'm on friendster and myspace - looking for friends feels kinda like pokemon - gotta collect'em all! i think i have a facebook account but i've never logged in.

I joined facebook after a number of people pressured me into it, and I was on friendster for ahwile, but I kind of despise these kind of things, particularly for the whole watering down of the notion of friendship associated with them. It just really irritates me when some random person whom I vaguely know wants to add me as a friend. Ugh!

I belong to half a dozen of these online social networks. Mostly linked to activities or groups i belonged to in school.

It does seem a bit bizzare the notion that I might hit one of these people 2 or 3 connections removed from knowing personally for a favour.

Wow, and here I had just signed up for myspace.

I'm a great dancer five minutes after the music stops.

All right, all right, you got me. I'm on the Facebook-- no creepy old men!!

Hey, wait a minute...

Nah, seriously, at least on Facebook, you need a college email address. MySpace I dislike because, this one time, I was on a plane. And this guy who looked like he was in his 30s was asking all the youngish girls (including myself), "Do you have MySpace?" It was really creepy and icky. When I said no he started getting into the, "Why not? You should." Etc. etc. Just... eugh. People like that I dislike.

Also, I have no problem turning people down for friendship or deleting them later. I'm mean that way.

It's true...

~30+ Pov

Cali, is it okay if I'm a 33yo man asking all the oldish guys if they are on myspace?

But of course!! I'd never deny a man his older man pleasures. Or... whatever. >.>

I just got my new CO license, all shiny and plastic. It doesn't matter tho'; no one cards me anymore. Guess my age finally caught up to me.

i'm 28 until july!!!! then i turn "29" it stops at 29 right?

Well, Jack Benny stopped at 39

Personally, I might soon freeze things (non-cryogenically) at 49 ... or change my profile at MySpace and other venues to have an age of 100. (Many do that now.)

Let 'em guess! Or think that Starhaven has some faboo anti-aging technology. Either one's fine with me.

I'm over on mySpace, but I haven't done a dang thing with my profile as of yet. Too busy!!!