Myspace = Viral

Yet another way for us net-citizens to think we are really, really, hip-cool-special-individualist-one-of-a-kind-people, while in fact we are turning into puppets in the marketing game.

I don’t get the hype either…yet I have friends that praise it. I wonder if some hidden message is implanted into their brains from their MySpace site. hmmm j/k

I got into the whole livejournal thing ’cause it’s the blog of choice for an online community I’m in

But I refuse to join myspace and the like just because my RL friends are using it. If you want to contact me, call me or come by for a visit. Seriously.

Brian: “You are all individuals!”

Crowd (in unison): “Yes, we are all individuals!”

oops … left out a line … (It’d be nice to be able to edit our entries).

ONE GUY: “I’m not.”

I work in a .edu. MySpace and Facebook (.com) are without a doubt the two most popular sites visited by our students (guessed at that at first, but verified it with proxy logs).

It’s the cool, hip new “thing”. I’m guilty of having my profile on both of them, but I don’t regularly access either one of them. My fiancee (20 yr. old college student), however, is a complete “facebook addict”. I’ve threatened to block her from facebook on our home network. =)

Nearly two months ago there was a nice little attack on MySpace. It was actually quite good, in my opinion, and well thought out. I’m not saying I advocate it, but every once in a while someone will pull off an “attack” that just makes me grin. =)

don’t worry, myspace only has an uptime of 15 minutes, all the rest of the time there is something broken on it.