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I did about a week ago. I wanted to get a 'share on myspace' widget for comedy value. What I found disturbing was the login screen that had more than the usual
by Theodores 8y ago
I did about a week ago. I wanted to get a 'share on myspace' widget for comedy value.
What I found disturbing was the login screen that had more than the usual cookie notice:
> I understand that if I choose to post or share any sensitive data (defined as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning my health, sex life, sexual orientation, or children’s data) on Myspace that Myspace will process that data in connection with making the Myspace services available to me and expressly consent to such processing.
I can understand them wanting to ban my far-right-wing-neo-capitalist ramblings about Brexit, my racist 'jokes' and my Heaven's Gate religious rants but 'trade union membership'? Is collective bargaining in the workplace forbidden already?
What I found even more disturbing was how I was one or two clicks away from getting a prostitute. I don't ever get that on the normal internet I know.
I clicked a few other profiles, seems there are marketing losers who didn't get the memo and that is about it within the several astronomical unit search radius.
There are also the 'stars' on there and you will see the same faces. Katelyn Ryan is like the new "Tom Anderson" but I have no idea if she is a bot or if she wants to have my babies. There is no way of finding meaningful information out for that 'connection'. So to 'connect' with a zombie on myspace you would have to Google them.
It is a very bizarre website. It is built by zombies for zombies. And to think there was a time when I could find people on my street and say 'hi' to them via myspace, for them to be real and communicative.
Why they don't just pull the plug I do not know. Presumably they prefer paying the bills. It is shocking to find such a soul destroying site when you think how much time and money has gone into it.
I think mySpace is worthy of study. Boring Facebook blue was what people wanted, design and redesign didn't keep them on mySpace. Adverts were another thing, by the time it had to pay the billions the likes of Murdoch had spent on it the adverts had to be laid on way too thick. We get told the failure was in allowing user generated themes but that was truly creative rather than selfie-narcissistic. People were engaged in something, not zoned out scrolling through empty lives.
I didn't get my myspace share button. Which is stupid. how hard can it be for a social media site to have a 'share on service x' button? I only wanted one for retro comedy value - the old Twitter 't' logo instead of the bird, the aol email address etc. - just needed that myspace link to complete the set.