falling in and out of love with social networks
So it’s like this. I was on myspace a long while ago. I had friends (lots of ‘em), and photos, and my podcast feed from this website and lots of comments and lots of other useless social network crap. And then the spam began. But I don’t mean spam as in the “buy more viagra now” kind. It was from people who wanted to meet up to hook up. Here is an example note I received on myspace:
Hey dude. I heard your set at Spin last night. Do you remember me? I’m friends with XXXYYY and we met at ZZZAAA. I really wanted to BEEP when we met. What are you doing tonight?
I’m so not joking. That really happened, multiple times. What is it with the gays? Why do they have to make every online experience a hook-up kinda thing? I frustrated me to no end, and I finally just deleted my entire myspace account. Gone gone gone.
Then, I find out someone built a facebook account with MY NAME and MY PICTURES and MY INFORMATION. Facebook were nice enough to shut it down and sort everything out, so I thought, gee, maybe I’ll give facebook a try. And I did. And it was eh, ok. Then the spam crap began again from guys looking for random hook ups.
The last time I checked, there were websites DEDICATED to finding sex on the internet. Facebook is not, and should not be one of them. So I shut my facebook account down, which was technically for the second time, although I didn’t start it up the first time.
Then there is twitter. Which I LOVE. I twitter several times a day, and I keep tabs on some folks. A lot of my close friends don’t twitter, but I’m making new ones as time progresses. Thankfully, I don’t think twitter will fall into the same boat with the sex-spam that I was getting on facebook or myspace.
But it sucks. I sorta feel like I’m missing something, but I don’t think I am.