MySpace – The New Geocities
Web agencies and easily lead web producers are constantly wittering on about “web 2.0″ these days, so here’s an investigation.
In the “good” old days, there were two kinds of website, there were the ones where the operator had taken some time to learn a bit of html and put in the effort to create something which was relatively easy on the eye. Then there were the other kind; couldn’t be arsed learning html so they used Fr*ntpage, and where did they host their magnum opus? Nowhere else but Geocities was good enough.
Ah Geocities, where sites were rotten and gifs were animated. “This site is under construction!” [insert gif of little man digging] There’s a surprise. Your site isn’t finished but you put it up anyway. Such professionalism. At least these days people put “Coming soon!” in buttons that don’t work… oh hang on, these amateur cretins did that too.
Exhibit A : GeoCities
I despised those people.
Anyway, now we have SOCIAL NETWORKING which is effectively the retards who were previously restrained within MSN with usernames like That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don’t know if I can do it Oh no I’ve said too much I haven’t said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try
The upshot being that conversations, when transcribed look like this :
Sam : Hey Shawonda, how’s it going?
That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spotlight Losing my religion Trying to keep up with you And I don’t know if I can do it Oh no I’ve said too much I haven’t said enough I thought that I heard you laughing I thought that I heard you sing I think I thought I saw you try : Fine
Sam : I hate you
I digress. The upshot is that whereas before they were quite happily spamming each other on MSNM, now they apparently are suitable individuals to have their own websites. Enter MySpace.
MySpace is effectively GeoCities for the next generation – the generation who are too stupid to be able to use Fr*ntpage. The previously endangered animated gif makes a storming comeback, link exchanges, web-rings and free web counters must all be reliving their salad days.
Exhibit B : MySpace
Exhibit C : More MySpace
Exhibit D : Sensing a pattern?
At least when it was GeoCities the users had tried to learn how to do it, even if the result was an eyesore.
Never let it be said, however, that I am unwilling to try out the latest hot technology, so I put together a MySpace page of my very own. Look at me I’m social networking!!! Where’s my award?
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