Signal to Noise

10. The blogging tool. No quoting. The fonts are always whacked. Hyperlinking doesn’t always work right. Does anybody serious use MySpace for blogging?

9. The 16-photo limit. What good is 16 photos. At least with Flickr or .Mac, you can post as many as you like.

8. The awful, awful look and feel. ‘Nuff said.

7. The ‘just enough’ attitude MySpace’s developers take towards every aspect of the solution. Every feature–from mail to blogging–is so bare bones that it makes it impossible to consider for serious use.

6. The overwhelming presence of immaturity. Anybody who’s been surfing MySpace must recognize the utter lack of consciencious thought being uttered by the people on this site. The membership rank and file seem to all be the same pissed off teenager masquerading as 100 million differnt people.

5. The age gap. Name ONE fourty-year-old you personally know that uses MySpace regularly and then mark them off the list if they’re a professional musician–that doesn’t count.

4. The navigational layout stinks. It’s too easy to get bumped out of your own profile while you’re working on something.

3. The fraternization among MySpace people doesn’t *do* anything. I’ve sat on my hands and kept my mouth shut about MySpace for a long time, wondering who in the heck could spend so much time posting flirts and comments and “what up doe” euphamisms on an Internet site? What good does it do?

2.  The fakeness of people. It really makes me wonder, are these people this uninhibited, sexually forward, callous, and idiotic in real life, or is it just the fact that I have 2 kids and grew up before everybody else in my demographic?
1.  The general inferiority of MySpace, when compared to other social communities such as Yahoo, which have so much more going for them (a decent look and fee, better authoring tools, and a real platform of content to call on), including voice and video (Skype’s new 3.0 community features make MySpace look little).

There you have it. 10 reasons why MySpace sucks. Flame away.