So, this morning I got an invite from Catherine, the queen of online friends networks to join some new crap called Myspace.com, which is just some annoying Friendster clone. I know, I know, I should have just deleted the invite and gone my merry way, but I’m always curious to at least see what these things are like before I condemn them. After that, I figure I’m free to condemn them all I want. Maybe there would be some cool new advancement over Friendster, enabling me to “get my freak on” even easier. No such luck. Just another dumb network thing, except it has no users.

I logged in again to try and delete my account, to find an automated email from a “moderator” named “Tom” welcoming to me to my new “community of friends”. I promptly replied to “Tom”:

Hi tom,

This sucks. How can I unsign up, and pretend like this whole thing never happened?

We’ll see what he says.

It’s not that I have anything in particular against this sort of shit. It’s just that I’m tired of friendster and its hijinks, and people talking about it constantly, and crying about it soon costing money. One thing I was thinking today, that it would be cool if they expanded it beyond just like dating and crap, and made it into a file-sharing network, where you know all the users, and can browse their shared files, and its impenetrable to like outside evildoers, like the RIAA. I think they call those members-only networks “darknets” which is super cool.

The only different feature I saw this new place having over Friendster was some journaling thing. But I already have some dumb journaling thing set up. I don’t need to funnel it through some other irritating thing. Maybe if they were able to pull an RSS feed off your site, and then pop it into there.

And while they’re at it, they may as well combine it with all those other dumb utilities, like classmates.com, and all that shit.