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Goodbye to MySpace

January 2, 2008 on 2:21 pm | In Friends |

I canceled my account on MySpace today. I’m really surprised I kept it this long.

It didn’t really add any value for me. Years ago, those of us “in the know” would say that AOL was like the Internet for Beginners. Once you learned enough, you’d ditch AOL for a real ISP and move on. MySpace kind of took AOL’s place.

Unfortunate now there are dozens of social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, LinkedIn, Orkut, etc. Many sites that really have little to do with networking have jumped on the bandwagon and added the ability to list friends and crap like YouTube, Digg, and Flickr. How do you maintain all this crap? Why do I need to advertise who and how many friends I have? Like it’s some sort of badge. Who cares? Who cares what my favorite song is this week?

Today on Slashdot there’s an article suggesting social network aggregation. Just what I need, yet another site to visit every day and manage all of my social networking profiles. I say fuck it all.

In a twist of irony, I’m offering a chunk of code that you may embed into your website or profile if you like that links back here to ProteinSpill:

<a href="http://proteinspill.com/"
title="ProteinSpill.com - an independent Disney Cast Portal">
<img src="http://proteinspill.com/images/psbug.jpe" /></a>

It looks like this. If you don’t already have it, I will put my full faith in my multiple spam filters and publish my email address for the first time: whimmel@proteinspill.com