Why I like LJ better than MySpace

[rikibeth]

So, I get a friend request today, from Troy.

As I don't usually get friend requests from anyone besides random bands, I went and looked at his profile. Go ahead, check it out.

This is what I sent back to him:

Subject: so, did you actually READ my profile?

1) I'm SO not okay with anyone who'd use the phrase "master race" in their online name.

2) You say you're looking for someone 23 to 28. Did you notice that I was 36?

3) You listen to hip-hop and rap. Did you see ANY of those sorts of artists on my profile? Did you check my friendslist and see all the punk and ska and goth and emo bands?

4) If you're looking for somebody intellectual, you probably ought to learn how to spell the word.

So, DENIED.

LJ is so much more civilized.

Comments

[quezz.livejournal.com]

Master Race?

Rap? Hip-Hop?

The world is VERY confusing to me sometimes...

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

"interlactaul"? Dude can't even spell "bitinng".

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Would you (and rikibeth) believe he meant it as "Master Ace 9"?

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Some underscores or X's might have helped clarify the matter, in that case. It looked icky.

[ihadtimetokill.livejournal.com]

MySpace is going to destroy what remains of the free world, I swear.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Honestly, you meet the most appalling sorts of people sometimes.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I went and looked, and now I want to scrub my brain.

[annabelevil.livejournal.com]

yeah I agree it was probably master ace..he is half black and half indian.
He's just another myspace whore..you'll get alot of those..they just add anyone.

[tubin.livejournal.com]

It currently says must be 23 to 38. Wonder if he just changed it? Doesn't make him less of a lewsur, of course.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

He's a cool calm collective? I wonder which one of him you were talking to?

[la-directora.livejournal.com]

This is precisely why I have pretty well given up on the idea of using the typical online dating sites. Every time I setup a profile, I very specifically mention that I'm a vegetarian, ultra-liberal witch. And then I get these e-mails saying, "I saw your profile, and I thought we would go well together," from people whose profiles say that their favorite person is their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that they are an evangelical Christian.

Buh...what?

People who want to date me but haven't even READ my profile don't deserve a second of my time.

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

Nah, it'll just become corporatized, then over-regulated, and then become a Terminally Unhip Place Where Only Squares And Old People Hang Out. I give it another year or so, then it'll be a mere curiosity from the past.

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

I confess to doing the MySpace thingie, mostly for its comedic value. Just for fun, this is my stock response every time some 18 year-old looks-like-a-porn-star profile wants to "friend" me:

Why certainly. I'll friend you on MySpace IFF:

1. You don't insist on a credit card number so as to enable me to view a webcam,
   
2. You really ARE the way-too-good-to-be-true Photoshopped hottie your biography says you are,
   
3. You really ARE in my geographical location, and
   
4. You know something of the following 4 names and can wax philosophical on the accumulated body of work of one of them for more than 3 minutes:
   
6. George Carlin
   
8. Joss Whedon
   
10. Thomas Jefferson
    
12. Terry Pratchett

There. Delighted to meet you. Feel free to visit my galleries at absolutely NO CHARGE at http://www.petervintonjr.com

That usually does the trick, since of course the short answer to all four questions is going to be "No." But I keep this response on hand, just on the off-chance something amusing happens...

[a_belladonna]

That layout didn't give me a headache at all. Absolutely not. Why are there so many ugly layouts on MySpace?

Someone who's into hip-hop wanting to friend someone who's into punk/ska/goth and emo is like a strict Harry/Draco shipper friending a strict Snape/Lupin shipper, IMO. *g* Why?

You're right, LJ is much more civilised and, at least where I am, with much more interesting entries. :) The more I see of MySpace, the more I ♥ my friends-list. :)

[searingpaine.livejournal.com]

its already corpoartized. as for over regulated, they have some fucked up rules regarding pictures. lets just say, dont post any if you're made up to look dead. they apparently dont like that

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Someone who's into hip-hop wanting to friend someone who's into punk/ska/goth and emo is like a strict Harry/Draco shipper friending a strict Snape/Lupin shipper, IMO. *g* Why?

Especially when what I REALLY am is a Snape/ROSIER shipper. Rarepairs all the way, baby! And weird small bands who charm me into buying their CDs in the line for gates at Warped.

MySpace has its uses. Bulletins from bands about tour dates and new videos and stuff are good. So are reminder bulletins from the local DJs about who's on this week's roster for club nights. And sometimes I can win free tickets through the promos from some of the venues.

But I never approached it as a dating site and from what I've seen, I'm very glad I haven't.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Has ANYONE ever responded to that one? Because I have to admit, your list made me smile. A LOT.

"That's seven sins for one feel, man!"

And *points to the icon*

And I don't know whether to quote his actual writings or start singing something from "1776."

I admit, not so much with the Pratchett, but it's on my to-read list.

'Course, I'm not an 18-year-old Photoshopped hottie, either.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

aww, what a shame! I did such a GREAT dead-girl makeup one year, with strangulation bruises on my neck and EVERYTHING.

No pictures, though.

[fasteronfire525.livejournal.com]

hahaha. awesome.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I admit, if it weren't for the misspelling, I wouldn't have even bothered to snark at him.

And I don't know if I'd have the nerve to use an online dating site. Wouldn't it be full of mundanes? In all my life I've never dated outside of fandom, and I'm honestly not sure I'd know HOW.

[fasteronfire525.livejournal.com]

There's a reason he only has 38 friends...

he uses caps liek this on his pictures.. "ME & MY NI99A FRANK!!!!!!"

and his pro is seriously too dark. ugh. can barely read it.

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand the appeal of MySpace or LJ attempts to copy some of its style.

[auspeople.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to read any of these other comments because I can't stop cracking up over this icon. The eye swinging around is frakkin beautiful. Bravo!!

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

It's GREAT as a promotional tool for bands. As a music fan, I appreciate it.

However, sometimes I wish I'd stayed with my original plan of ONLY friending bands I wanted to track. eternaleponine sticks to that.

I started friending RL people when I acquired some younger local friends who didn't use LJ.

But I still don't like it nearly as much for social networking.

[ashbet]

Bwahahahahah!! Yep, I'll bet you that he meant "Master Ace," and can't figure out why Neo-Nazis keep checking out his profile . . . zomg!! Perfect forehead-slapper there ;D

Nice response, Rikibeth!!

-- A ^_^

[kebbykate.livejournal.com]

I loathe MySpace, and why, why, why, do you ask?

Because every day young twits come to the library, sign up to use the Internet computers and start whiling away their time on MySpace. That part is okay, but then they start clicking things madly and snarling up the computers and it's all "the computer isn't working". Well, duh, because, like every other 14-year-old in the country you got onto MySpace and then you started quadruple clicking on every little misspelled hottie's tucus and I just don't CARE!!!

As my friend RH would say, "I'm not bitter."

**Sigh**

[panzerschrek.livejournal.com]

The probably find me horribly disappointing in LJ land...