Current location:	Arvada, CO
Current mood:	displeased
Current music:	CSI: Miami in the background

More things I dislike about MySpace
Poking around my MySpace friends list today, I started trying to read blogs, keep my laptop from suddenly bursting into song whenever someone's home page reopened, and reply to things. None of these were as easy as they should have been. So I've decided to compile a list of things I dislike about MySpace to present my views in a delineated fashion.

Things I dislike about MySpace:

1. Each blog entry is a separate page, which means you keep having to go back to the user's main page to open the next entry. Which means that you have to wait for all of their damn musics, pictures, SLIDESHOWS, friends listings, YouTube videos stuck in the bottom corner, and multiple CSS table data cells to appear.


2. The music. Sure, it's neat to have music on your page (for instance, my band's MySpace has some of our music playing), but what about when you don't want a song someone else picked out playing over your speakers (like when you're listening to something else in iTunes or what-have-you at the time)? Sure, you can hit the stop button, but you have to wait until THAT loads, along with all the other miscellaneous crap that people adorn, nay, festoon their pages with. And when you pop back onto the main page to wait for it all to load again so that you can read another one of their blogs, the music starts AGAIN. Thus requiring a full loading/stop button pressing every time you want to read another post. Unless, by some miracle, the blog section actually manages to load before the music player, at which point you can just click on the next post and leave behind their ridiculously bloated front page.


3. Replying to blog posts. For some reason, the reply-to script runs like junk on my computer. It *does* run, but it takes literally ten minutes to type out a reasonable reply. I mean, it's only about a minute and a half to actually type it, but then, I have to wait five minutes for the stupid thing to catch up. THEN, I have to go back and fix any typos I may have made, after waiting for all of the text to finish being entered.
   Perhaps it runs fine on other people's computers/browsers, but there's NO REASON why it shouldn't run appropriately across the board.


4. Animated Javascript Thingies. Whatever it is that people use to, say, make raindrops or hearts flutter or fall across the page. Again, this is a browser compatibility issue, perhaps--it runs okay in IE, but I don't use IE. Especially not for this, the one thing that it would actually do that I wanted it to.

I suppose that's about it for my gripes about MySpace today. Perhaps later I'll post something of consequence, but I just felt like bitching about that other online community site.

Have a nice day!
The Insane Space Hunter