I knows me some ugly...

[fancycwabs]

I'm debating joining the ranks of teh unreadable. The missus, both kids, some members of my family, and more than a couple actual human friends (also Lore Sjoberg, apparently) all have MySpace pages, complete with obnoxious insta-music, black ten-point text on a moire pattern as a background, and random independently scrolling whatsits. They apparently use this apparatus as an actual communication device, inasmuch as MySpace comments can be considered communication.

And so, a question. Who among you, my intellectually-stimulating elitist LiveJournalers, with your complete sentences, courteous LiveJournal cuts, clever witticisms, and spellcheck, also has a MySpace page?

Comments

[cabbagemedley.livejournal.com]

I was bullied into making one the other day so I could be friended by someone I generally fail to keep in touch with. But her page hurts my eyes so I still don't go there. Bleagh.

[count-shrimpula.livejournal.com]

Oh hell no. No myspace here. Don't do it man! Resist! Don't give in to the temptation of that electronic cesspool!

[granuaile.livejournal.com]

Not I, said the large purple duck.

[oldhubcap.livejournal.com]

No, I don't have one.

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

Well, you know that I do. And yes, Livejournal is much more curtious and upstanding, but sometimes Myspace is fun. That's why Treencter has no time for Livejournal, he's having too much fun over there.

[samethreechords.livejournal.com]

I do. I'm not proud of it. Pretty much at this point the only reason I keep it is to keep track of a few people who I don't see on LJ or anywhere else.

[tenlegspider.livejournal.com]

http://myspace.com/iiieeeoo

If you use adblock, it's really easy to block every music player that just plays one song while leaving the ones that bands use in tact. It makes the whole thing a lot more tolerable.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

You know, I completely forgot to put the adblock extension on my firefox installation when I got this fancy new work computer a couple of months ago. Thanks for the reminder!

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

Let's see, do I really want to be a part of a community that makes LJ look like a beacon of proper spelling, courtesy and good design?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

MySpace is full of Ick.

[luckimunki.livejournal.com]

I made a MySpace page (username is Lhyzz) because a friend of mine begged me to. I don't really use it at all. In fact, I probably check it about once a month.

[sergeirichard.livejournal.com]

I was pressured into creating one because an ex-girlfriend of mine actually programs for them. But I never check it or put anything on it.

Perhaps I will someday, but only as a way to funnel people into my 'real' website.

[skatiemom.livejournal.com]

I have a MySpace account, but have never turned into a page. (I hope that makes some sense.) It's only so that I can log in and check on The Kid, his friends, his friend's friends, random strangers, and God. Uh, I sometimes get bored and started following links. *sigh*

[aliiyf.livejournal.com]

Not I. Sometimes I go over there and read my sister's page -- because that's the only way I'll ever find out what's going on with her -- but it all hurts my eyes. Resist!

[bigbrownhound.livejournal.com]

And Who're you calling ugly?

[box-of-rocks.livejournal.com]

I do, but I don't have a profile set up really. I just have my age, relationship status, picture and maybe a couple other things. I only set it up so I could spy on my little sister and see how many illegal drugs she claims to take when she fills out surveys.

My lack of any interesting facts about me, no apparent interests, and the part that says I am in a relationship does not keep the occasional random strange man from trying to friend me/message me.

My dad had a myspace for awhile and it made me laugh a lot. It said he was a cagefighter who loved fat lonely schoolteachers and Chicken Soup for the Soul books. My mom made him take it down.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of putting a profile very similar to that--and have this image tiled for my background:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/36818084@N00/273321059/)

That should be in the MySpace spirit, right?

[loree-borealis.livejournal.com]

I have one. I keep it because a bunch of high-school &/or college friends have found me through it, and (so far) that's a good thing. But I don't ever post anything new or check it unless someone sends me a message.

[hatgrlstargazer.livejournal.com]

A friend talked me into a myspace page, but only just barely. I haven't put much of anything on it, but there's a small handful of people I keep in touch with that way. When I can stand the pain of looking at the flashy music-playing things. I've been trying to keep it seperate from my other internet haunts to protect hatgirlstargazer's annonymity, but I've been thinking for some time of making a post about how I'm doing about as good a job at keeping hatgirl seperate from Erica as Green Arrow does at protecting his secret identity (that is to say, not well).

[antiquated-tory.livejournal.com]

I recently set one up but mostly to track events at The Blind Eye (a local pub with a MySpace page), people who are regulars there, and a couple bands.
I use default everything but did fill in a meaningful profile. And the page is set up with my real name. It might be useful if someone from the distant past/the States decides to try and look me up sometime.
The 'custom' homepages have got to be the most painful and confusing GUIs I have ever seen, and I work at a company with engineer-designed GUIs.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

The "regular" hompage is a mess, too.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

I have one because an unbelievable number of people I've known have them. Really, it's just nuts, I never would have thought. No way in hell I'm making mine for real, though. I don't want the bastards to find me.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

I should also add that MySpace, technically, doesn't even work.