Embrace the Ugly
In September 2004, I joined a little website that was just starting to take off. You may have heard of it. It's called MySpace.
A week later, I cancelled my account after several 15 year old girls and creepy looking guys wanted to be my friend for no reason whatsoever other than the fact that, "Hey! You are on MySpace. So am I!"
It was bizarre and overwhelming. After I got a friend request from someone known as "captin wishwash," I reached my limit and promptly cancelled my account citing the "ick" factor.
Fast forward to 2006. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE - friends, dates, Romans, countrymen - asks me, "Are you on MySpace?" and when I tell them no I get "You've got to get on MySpace!" in tone of voice that suggests I'm either crazy or out-of-touch and crotchety for not being on it.
But I've resisted it because well, I think MySpace is butt ugly. It offends my web designer sensibilities. If HTML could inbreed, you would have MySpace. I look at some pages and I can't even find the text. And the GIFs. Oh Dear Lawd...the GIFs! They hurt my eyes and make the baby Jesus cry.
But I fear what I do not understand, so this weekend I caved and created a MySpace page.
Yes. I truly am a whore.
My page is pretty subtle now but I'm determined to make it as ugly and obnoxious as I can. I am open to suggestions.
Anyone know any fugly GIF sites?
Comments
Um, 'myspace' is blocked at work for me. Great big 'access denied' pops up when I click on your link.
Avoid MySpace like the plague my friend.
1) its creepy, much like a twink bar is creepy
2) its where Dateline NBC rounds up all their child molesters
Posted by: cb | July 24, 2006 11:18 AM
oh god no. you caved? your one of them now. i hate myspace more than i hate king george. more than i hate celine dion. more than i hate guys who drive hummers (note, i did not say i hate guys who give hummers, those are perfectly acceptable).
myspace is one of the signs of the apocolypse. i know, cuase i looked it up - it's in the bible - god used to only have 7 signs, but then some fuckwad created myspace so he made it number 8.
it's the most graphically ugly, popularity contest on the planet.
ugg... i feel dirty just having read your post and my subsequent visit to your myspace page.
must take a shower with lava soap to get the stink of myspace off of me.
cheers!
Posted by: kyle | July 24, 2006 11:47 AM
Go to my account, click on my friend Panchesco/Richard's account, there is a pretty disgusting GIF in his comments section.
Posted by: homer | July 24, 2006 12:41 PM
MySpace is good for one thing and one thing only: Doing background checks on the teenagers who are going to babysit my kids.
Posted by: Karen | July 24, 2006 03:57 PM
HEH! I'll "friend" you now!
And there's PLENTY of examples of hideous myspace pages there!
Posted by: Lee | July 25, 2006 04:14 AM
Ohmigod! You're on MySpace? Me too! Be my friend!
(See, all of us have a teenage girl inside us. If we have any sense, we live in absolute terror of her....)
Posted by: Jeffrey | July 26, 2006 12:14 PM