New MySpace Logo
Did you see? MySpace just came out with a new logo:
I like it a lot! I think it gets to the heart of what MySpace is all about, i.e., seeing this error every other time you click something. I want to respond to both of the statements made in this error message, the first one first:
1) Not to me it wasn’t!
2) I doubt it!
Luckily, the friends I’m trying to add are mostly fake sexy lady profiles that belong to spammers who are going to fill my comments with garbage. The geniuses behind the scenes do eventually find and remove these profiles which is why my comments section starts with 21 of these:
Code Monkey: “Hey Rob, you want me to delete the SPAM comments when I delete the SPAM profiles, or should I leave them there?”
Rob: “Let’s choose the middle course - leave the comments there, but remove their content so they no longer have any value, and yet still take up space.”
Oh also? When you click the Home link after getting this error it doesn’t bring you to your profile page until you click the Home link again - so you get to see twice as many Sierra Mist ads!
And when you want to change your top friends, you might find it hard to sort through all your friends and find the ones you want, were it not for this great box:
See, you can choose to search by email, or, well, by email. As you might expect from looking at this interface, the Find button does nothing, and the Browse All button makes the Browse All button disappear. And then your pants fall down and your house catches fire. How did we ever get by without this wonderful tool?
Sorry MySpace kids. I love you very much.
November 17th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
I was amused/intensely frustrated by how the spam comments stay in my e-mail, even when profiles are deleted/ Yay spam!
The new logo is perfect.
November 17th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Waha aha ha! Myspace sucks and blows…AT THE SAME TIME!
November 17th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
What I really hate is the fact I can’t seem to convince my friends to leave MySpace…It’s a horrid little black hole, and no matter the problems it has, my pals won’t try anything new…They can’t see that MySpace is the Ford Futura of the Internet, and we need to find the Geo Metro–simple, effective, and though you might not admit it in public–cool looking.
November 17th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
You, sir or madam, have insulted Ford Futuras, and I will not have it. Do Ford Futuras throw huge pictures of soft porn on your windscreen when you drive? Do Ford Futuras force you to pick up hitchhikers? Do Ford Futuras crash without warning? Well, maybe, but I bet not as often!
November 17th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Rob’s quite articulate for a zombie.
Do I hear the origins of an anti-myspace song emerging?
November 17th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
all the cool kids are on livejournal.
November 18th, 2006 at 7:05 am
As I posted on the lj feed…
Amen.
When an error occurs every 2nd time you click on ANY LINK EVER, it’s no longer “unexpected”.
November 18th, 2006 at 7:26 am
I think it’s almost cute the way we think there’s some *programming* behind MySpace.
November 18th, 2006 at 8:57 am
I recant.
November 18th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Ha!
Maybe MySpace misunderstood, and they hired *real* monkeys.
Jonathan gives us more reasons to love him every day.
November 18th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Hooray!! I think PML got close with the mention of the “horrid little black hole.” It’s a dreadful accumulation of so much insigificance that a horrible sucking vortex forms around itself, pulling in all significant things along with it (such as “self-respect,” or “hesitancy vis-Ã -vis stalking”). I eagerly await the day it implodes, yet there’s no guarantee its progeny will be any better….
November 18th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
LOL! File this quote under “It’s funny because it hurts, and it hurts because it’s true”.
November 19th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Sierra Mist advertises? huh.
November 20th, 2006 at 9:48 am
This is why you should join http://www.facebook.com , it would make your 2 fan clubs incredibly happy.
November 20th, 2006 at 11:24 am
This is why you should join LiveJournal — it would make your loyal minions there very happy.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Gosh darn it, Jonathan. Why aren’t you everywhere doing everything at all times? I mean, how can you expect to maintain a decent fan base if you spend all your free time with frivilous things like family, friends and sleeping instead of builing and updating 5,374,982 intertube profiles? It’s just … hold on … there was so much sarcasm dripping off that one my basement is flooding.
November 20th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Please don’t waste any more of your time on MySpace than you have to. Blogging about MySpace is kind of like babbling about how your retarded brother is constantly doing very dumb things.
I mean.
It’s MySpace.
Of course it sucks.
Thanks,
-danny
November 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 am
LOL, yeah, I bailed on MySpace after realizing that the average mental age of their tech support staff is less than half the physical age of their target demographic.
November 22nd, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Eric feels like recanting. I feel like decanting.
Sierra Mist ads? I should be so lucky. Would that, when I demonstrated MySpace to mySpouse, a Sierra Mist ad had popped up instead of the one that did, foot-long cleavage and all.
November 25th, 2006 at 10:11 pm
Myspace is going to collapse on itself and maybe someone other than fox will buy it when its value depreciates…
Google is pretty good at that kind of thing.
November 26th, 2006 at 8:45 am
I’ll admit that MySpace isn’t complete crap but, it is broken. You know, like a TV that is foggy, only displays on the bottom right quarter of the screen, and randomly shuts off so you have to turn it back on even though all the buttons are missing forcing you to use a butter knife to do it.
But, shit, Empire Strikes Back is showing on it so you have to watch.
Why can’t we see the good content on a good service?
November 27th, 2006 at 9:16 am
http://meta.ath0.com/articles/2006/10/26/myspace-jumps-the-shark
Allegedly people are already leaving MySpace.
November 29th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Thank god for all of the pornstar profiles and tween trollops. Why, without them, Myspace might be credible to some extent as a legitimate service!
November 29th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
[...] That about sums up my feelings as well. [...]
November 29th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
>Google is pretty good at that kind of thing.
Well, Google made Orkut, which is kind of cool, but also sucks in its own way. Of course, it doesn’t suck NEARLY as much as MySpace.
December 1st, 2006 at 4:03 am
Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?
March 13th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Does anybody found the solution for the Friend Finding Filter problem?
Thanx!
Joker
April 1st, 2007 at 1:23 am
Simply situation: MySpace deserves to rot in hell.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:58 am
does anyone know how to delete the spam comments that doesnt have a delete button
November 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Ok, i see u guys complaining about myspace? But it also brings losts of problems that led me single to mingle, and it also lets you find people you have lost contact with, I mean how do you think i found my babydaddy for my money?
November 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
>Gosh darn it, Jonathan. Why aren’t you everywhere doing everything at all times? I mean, how can you expect to maintain a decent fan base if you spend all your free time with frivilous things like family, friends and sleeping instead of builing and updating 5,374,982 intertube profiles? It’s just … hold on … there was so much sarcasm dripping off that one my basement is flooding.
LOTFLMFAO