Why You Should Dump MySpace.com

There is a current debate raging among parents and educators about the safeness and benefits of social networking sites like MySpace.com. Sadly, safety issues are just the beginning of MySpace.com's problems. There are many reasons why MySpace.com should be avoided at all costs and Barefoot has outlined them here: My Top Eight Reasons for Hating MySpace.com.

Two of Barefoot's Eight Reasons to Hate MySpace.com

The eight reasons sited in Barefoot's article are all valid problems with MySpace.com. Let's examine some of Barefoot's reasons for not using MySpace.com and explore better social networking sites.

Barefoot wrote, as reason number eight, "You are not an HTML programmer." Many of us, even with the fastest of Internet speeds, are tired of waiting for poorly designed pages with overlapping images and messed up fonts to load. So many profiles on MySpace.com look like they were created by computer school drop-outs, and are as ugly as the pink hair on a certain beauty school drop out in Grease. Really, nobody cares about your profile enough to wait that long. Sorry.

The layouts on MySpace.com also remind me of the early days of the web when new users through bright yellow font on an orange background with a transparent photo and floating logo made their web page stand out.

Barefoot also notes that "There is a whole industry growing up around building a MySpace page." I found lots of inappropriate material when searching for MySpace and HTML. Perhaps Barefoot and I are just old, and not into "bling bling" sequined images for our web pages.

In his article Barefoot also noted as number five: "Those stats aren't you." The use of the statistics on the MySpace community is the most disconcerting. They read like a dating ad service. There is just something that feels a little seedy about MySpace's presentation of personal data, including relationship status and sexual orientation.

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