I have a myspace account that I've been trying to delete since I started it. The problem is, I pretty much knew I was going to hate it when I signed up for it, so I gave the contact e-mail as those "@mac.com" addresses. Of course, I don't know what my password for it is, so without the password, I can't click on the cancellation confirmation e-mail. Really I just think Rupert Murdoch won't let me go.
Myspace bothers me because it's poorly designed, ugly, and has crap spam controls, but mostly because I get a high quotient of crazy in my inbox. An "uptown problem" if there ever was one, I know.
There's the occasional "Did you know that we're secretly twin sisters!?" and various slightly sexually threatening notes, but mostly I get a lot of the "Read my script" sort of thing. Hey, I get it, everyone thinks they need to hustle so they can make it big. But could you show your type A-biggest-star-in-your-high-school-musical moxie elsewhere?
I hope your movie gets made -- I do! But I have to tell you: I can't get your movie made. I can't even get people to watch the youtube videos I think are funny -- LIKE THE ONE OF THE CAT RIDING THE ROOMBA! (See below.)
Now that the record has been set straight, I'm sure MySpace will be a happy, crazy-free place.
Right?
2 comments:
People actually send you scripts? No way.
That's kinda (really) funny.
All I ever got were weird invites from porn sites posing as long lost friends.
I barely know how to use MySpace. I hate that thing.
I have to wonder how many of the people bothering you there actually bother to read your stuff.
I avoided myspace and facebook for years until my 20 year HS reunion this spring, when I realized how bad I was at actually keeping in touch with people using previously conventional methods. It is sort of convenient for that purpose, and despite being logged into 6 different IM services to talk to different people, it's amazing how many choose to use facebook or myspace for that.
I've come across old friends from grade school even that I lost track of despite intending otherwise, and it's been nice to get back in touch. It would be sort of nice if everyone I'd like to talk to occasionally would pick one service or the other, but quite a few have a strong preference one way or the other. Facebook is definitely in the lead though.
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