MySpace, Facebook, who knows how many more. Some people think they’re good, some bad, some just don’t care. Well, I think all social networking sites are horrible. Here are some reasons that support my opinion.
I really do not like MySpace, Facebook, or any other website of it’s kind. No, not just because I’m jealous of the website designers. No, not because I can’t figure out how to make an account. And no, it’s not because I can’t get friends. Here are the real reasons I don’t like MySpace.
Note: For this article I am only going to say MySpace but when I say it I mean all the websites like it. (Facebook, etc.)
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Getting Obsessed with MySpace
This is horrible. One, you don’t have any time to focus on important like your job or school work. And another, what happens when MySpace starts to lose money and completely shuts itself down. You’d go insane! What about if your computer is broken and you no longer have access to MySpace. You’d go insane!
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Who Are Your Friends?
One of your friends could very well be a child molester who is 60 years old and is ready to strike. I do have to admit to MySpace doing a good job at working with people to help prevent this, but you never know. Always know who you are you are talking to.
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Can’t Talk To Your Friends Face to Face?
There is no emotion in typing stuff. Yes, I know what emoticons are. But when you do have to talk to someone for something important you can’t just type ”
“. It’s better to talk in person than anything. You can’t even have emotion in your voice when typing. Get off the computer and talk to your friends in person! -
Language Arts Grades Will Surely Go Down
With all off youre “lolz” n’ ” r u hear yet,” you forget to write the real thang on that midterm. im sure the teacher has no idea what u r saying. when almost everyone messages each other (unless its formal), they dont care if they mispelled a word. im sure they never type appostrophes.
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Lack of Exercise
I’m sure if your sitting at the computer “talking” you will not be active and your eyes will get worse. Go out, take a walk with your friend and have a chat. You are talking, you get excersise, and you aren’t sitting at a computer screen.
MySpace: bad for teens, bad for America!
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 am
Super Bad for teens. Its the new way of communication. Phones access the internet and kids have alot at the tip of their fingertips. When I was In school the text in class was banned but hell now there is no telling whats up. Great point, child molesters have taken a new location and a backseat to talking face to face. Its just sad how the internet has lead to more and more crime. Lack of social skills and exercise is a big deal. What is becoming a great social expereince in school and colleges, is not Myspace, its talking and making a network of friends that you can actually hang out with, not just type a message to. Very great article.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 am
interesting article, myspace is not that popular here,friendster is where most teens are addicted here,THANKS
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
What a nice article..
Thank you for sharing with us.
Lonely.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Hey, I’m a teen, and I COMPLETELY agree with you. Boycott Facebook & MySpace!
May 5th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
While I agree in part with the sentiment, some of your opinions are apparently based on erroneous assumptions rather than actual fact. I’ll address each one.
Reason 1. Obsession with anything isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however will power and moderation are key in fighting any kind of obsession. That doesn’t make MySpace (or websites like it) bad, it means the teen needs to learn to control how much time she/he spends on it. A hammer isn’t evil if someone uses it to bash someone else’s head it, it’s the user who decides how to use it.
Reason 2. This is the case with ANY chat place on the internet (or phone chat companies). A degree of wisdom (formerly known as common sense) and monitoring by an adult helps keep this to a minimum. However, there has been issues with this on MySpace and you’re right, they’ve taken a very active role in trying to limit and prevent it.
Reason 3. That’s what Skype is for. MySpace (in my case) is for creativity and keeping general contact with friends and family. It’s up to the individual (aka, the USER) to moderate the reasons for their usage.
Reason 4. Well, that kind of abbreviated slang has been going on since BBS’s were around (think pre-AOL). MySpace hardly originated it, and as you can tell, my writing did not and does not suffer when I need to make use of it.
Reason 5. This reason has been given for anything and everything in the past from watching television to listening to the radio. It’s so overused and generic that I’m surprised it was even listed as a reason.
Anything in excess is a bad thing. But just because you dislike it doesn’t mean others can’t find good in it.
For the most part though, this article was reasonably well written though not very fact-based. You should address real issues and reasons (Reason #2 was actually the closest to a real issue reason) on the subject rather than basing it on personal opinions; I would have found it more tangible and taken it a bit more seriously if real research had gone into it.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Forgive me, the very first thing I stated in Reason 1 was mis-stated : It should have said “Obsession with anything isn’t necessarily a GOOD thing…”
Thanks
May 6th, 2008 at 6:08 am
1.I have seen many people get obsessed with Myspace.
2.I actually know someone who got unwanted sex from some guy on Facebook.
3.This goes along with number 1.
4.I was monitoring a few kid’s Language Arts grades before and after I hooked them to Myspace. They went down a letter grade in a month. From an A to a B. Now it continues going down about a percentage every few weeks. They rarely go up.
5.Yes, I agree that anything has lack of exercise, but Myspace gets them on the computer more than if they weren’t on Myspace. It contributes to there not exercise.
And everything you said was also factual. As I said, These were only reasons to support my opinion.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Interesting article.
May 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I couldn’t agree more!
June 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
you are very smart you think good
July 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Nice article, getting addicted to practically
anything is bad but I see your point and it’s
a good one. I liked it, too many people get
caught up on things like that and meet friends
they don’t even know are what they say they are!
You should check out some of my articles, I bet
you will like them.
-=Koyin=-
October 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
this is all wrong.
teens love myspace because its interactive and fun.
just bcuz us teens have a life and like to socialize doesnt mean all u boring people have to put us down. is it hurting you? no its not. so leave us alone!
October 28th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Myspace is in fact a bad website for teens we have fun on it but when you look at the fact it really doesnt benefit us much. Myself personally i cant find one ood rason for myspace because if we need to talk to friends that what fones are for. It’s no good for our language. You can tell by how i speltphones.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
If you dont like the idea of Social Networking which is what Myspace and sites of the sort are were people get together and talk to friends then why did you even wright this?? cause this blog thing has the same idea and fits in the same realm. but o well what ever let me adress your reasons,
first, i think you are a little obsessed with this hole thing i mean you had to be in order to take the time and say all this. but ya i guess you could get obsessed but then againg you can get obsessed with anything.
secound, who are you who am i… noone knows again if talking to people you dont know bugs you what was your point in all this..
third, your third one is ok face to face is always better but then again you cant always be right next to the person or they may not have a phone.
forth, as you can tell my language is fine, but is just easier to say ‘o i c’ or ‘omg’ then type it all out and i am sure you can still understand it.
last, did you make this page wile running, riding a bike, smimming and/or with your eyes because if not you did exactly what you said was a bad thin you got no excersise and your eyes got worse. And then you put something on line that caused all the people that read this to do the same and so now i am fat because you wanted to say som ecrap about social networking so thanks…
January 8th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
WELL I DONT NOT AGREE WITH YOU BECAUSE WHERE I LIVE AT IN DAH WESTEND LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY WE DONT GO CRAZY OVA SUM MYSPACE YALL JUSS TALKIN ABOUT A BUNCH OF CRAP I WISH MY KIDS WILL GET ADDICTED TO THAT STUFF BUT THEY GOING TO GET THEIR LAPTOPS CUT OFF AND NO MORE COACH STUFF FROM ME
January 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
hello pplz out there!!!!!
February 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
you are all retarded, i let me daughter make wise choices.
if she can go to school, walk to the movies, and drive, then i think she can handle a little internet.
we are all made to make mistakes, thats why we have earisers.
so other parents need to back off, they are just talking with there friends.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
That can be true but they dont kipnappe you besi
February 26th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
i think your right because myspace is not that good. you have to be really carefull what you put on myspace.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
myspace sucks. cant even get friends.. no one likes me.. f*ck myspace !
April 16th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Hey.
Yes i do belive all of this is true.im a teen,and i use myspace way to much.Though im carful about what i post and who i talk to.But there’s just no way i can live without myspace.But the point i dont see in,is why have 1000 friends when you dont even know half of them.My friends have millons of people they dont even know.And i do ask people who they are when they request me.So myspace isnt that bad if you use it the right way.Though i dont think kids should lie about there age just so they can have a myspace.Parents should be aware of there younger kids ages(11-13).
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm
And what were you doin when you typed this stupid article.. Jogging? LMAO!!! You can set your profile to private (But you have to be smart enough to press the little bubble that says “Set profile to private”) I kno all my friends on myspace.. What if your some sixty year old weirdo trying to get attention? Where is your video and proof? What if it is some sick 60 year old guy? He isnt gonna visit you so??? Let him get off on talking to some other 60 year old pervert.. You cant talk face to face on phones either.. Should I give up my phone because I cant see you? Take this into consideration because you didnt think really hard about this before you complain. :^)