Comments on: The Prank of a Lifetime: When Sports and Technology Combine http://nukefreezone.net/archives/2006/03/11/the-prank-of-a-lifetime-when-sports-and-technology-combine/ Bringing you The Future, already in progress. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:56:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Salinn http://nukefreezone.net/archives/2006/03/11/the-prank-of-a-lifetime-when-sports-and-technology-combine/#comment-1462 Salinn Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:09:19 +0000 http://nukefreezone.net/archives/2006/03/11/the-prank-of-a-lifetime-when-sports-and-technology-combine/#comment-1462 My name is Salinn, and I have a myspace account. It's very...different than LJ, and very uncomfortable. I'm there because the camp staff I worked with last summer made a camp group and home there, and so my LJ list and my myspace friends have maybe 2 people in common. I don't blog there, I couldn't seem to figure things out enough for the first month to get to what I needed to get to, it made me feel very stupid, in fact, for someone who has spent a good amount of time on the internet. I occasionally post comments to other people's pages, but I don't get it. On LJ, when you make a comment on someone's blog, it's a list of thoughts continuing on the one topic. On myspace, you can use the blog to do that, but most people just comment on my page "So when am I going to see you? Are you going to come to ________?" So then you go and comment back, "Yeah, I'm going but I have to leave early" or some junk, and all you have on your own page is a bunch of people asking you questions you never have answers to in the same place or answers to questions you don't know who asked. It's like an ICQ in that way, you can leave messages for people who aren't there, only every stupid question is made public. There's also a private messaging system as well, but it's not up to you if your friends choose to make something public or private about you. If they want, they could leave a comment on your front page that says something degrading, and it'll just be there until you look at it/delete it. Something about that seems wrong. I guess it's the same on your LJ, although at least in the comments it's not right up there on your main post, and usually people at least stick to the topic of the post. You can also post "bulletins" for your friends to read only, that stay up only for 10 days. Mostly those are memes and quizzes, at least for my friends they are (but most of them are 18, so...yeah). Just the other day I found out myspace had games (I still haven't *seen* them) and I still don't know how to put up a style background or pictures or quizzes or anything. I don't actually mind being a "myspace" failure. :) My name is Salinn, and I have a myspace account.

It’s very…different than LJ, and very uncomfortable. I’m there because the camp staff I worked with last summer made a camp group and home there, and so my LJ list and my myspace friends have maybe 2 people in common. I don’t blog there, I couldn’t seem to figure things out enough for the first month to get to what I needed to get to, it made me feel very stupid, in fact, for someone who has spent a good amount of time on the internet. I occasionally post comments to other people’s pages, but I don’t get it. On LJ, when you make a comment on someone’s blog, it’s a list of thoughts continuing on the one topic. On myspace, you can use the blog to do that, but most people just comment on my page “So when am I going to see you? Are you going to come to ________?” So then you go and comment back, “Yeah, I’m going but I have to leave early” or some junk, and all you have on your own page is a bunch of people asking you questions you never have answers to in the same place or answers to questions you don’t know who asked. It’s like an ICQ in that way, you can leave messages for people who aren’t there, only every stupid question is made public. There’s also a private messaging system as well, but it’s not up to you if your friends choose to make something public or private about you. If they want, they could leave a comment on your front page that says something degrading, and it’ll just be there until you look at it/delete it. Something about that seems wrong. I guess it’s the same on your LJ, although at least in the comments it’s not right up there on your main post, and usually people at least stick to the topic of the post. You can also post “bulletins” for your friends to read only, that stay up only for 10 days. Mostly those are memes and quizzes, at least for my friends they are (but most of them are 18, so…yeah). Just the other day I found out myspace had games (I still haven’t *seen* them) and I still don’t know how to put up a style background or pictures or quizzes or anything.

I don’t actually mind being a “myspace” failure. :)

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