{"id":1375,"date":"2007-04-29T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2007-04-29T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T17:23:00","slug":"sweet-baby-jesus-i-hate-myspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-internet-is-not-fun\/sweet-baby-jesus-i-hate-myspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Baby Jesus, I hate MySpace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_4dy-Mg8i7XU\/RjTVNTe4JSI\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/OeV3ZISfLc8\/s1600-h\/myspacesux.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_4dy-Mg8i7XU\/RjTVNTe4JSI\/AAAAAAAAAFg\/OeV3ZISfLc8\/s400\/myspacesux.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058902705988707618\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just logged in to MySpace and got spambombed. And the hits just keep coming. In the time I&#8217;ve written this many words, two more &#8220;friend&#8221; requests have come sailing in. <\/p>\n<p>There is no practical reason for me to be on MySpace; I don&#8217;t use it to network or meet people. There are several people I know who seem to prefer using MySpace mail over e-mail, so I keep in touch with them that way. But it wouldn&#8217;t send me into fits of withdrawal if I just closed up shop (again). <\/p>\n<p>But I shouldn&#8217;t have to say &#8220;fukkit&#8221; just because MySpace can&#8217;t figure out how to get a handle on the spam and profile hijacking. Those seem like problems the other social networking sites just don&#8217;t have to this degree (and I guess it could be a question of market share; I don&#8217;t know). But seriously, MySpace? Use that deep News Corp. pocketbook and hire the best nerds you can find and get a handle on the spam shit or people are going to start jumping ship like they jumped ship when Blogger couldn&#8217;t get a handle on its spamulation issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just logged in to MySpace and got spambombed. And the hits just keep coming. In the time I&#8217;ve written this many words, two more &#8220;friend&#8221; requests have come sailing in. There is no practical reason for me to be on MySpace; I don&#8217;t use it to network or meet people. There are several people I know who seem to prefer using MySpace mail over e-mail, so I keep in touch with them that way.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-internet-is-not-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}