Watching You Die (July 18, 2009)

Current mood:distressed

For whatever reason, I've taken to MySpace like a bird dog to water. I have developed a personal relationship with my MySpace account, turning to social networking online when other options were not available to me. It has kept me in touch with some friends, and allowed me to find new ones. MySpace may be the devil, but I'm a friend of the devil.

When FaceBook started getting popular, I rebelled against it with everything I had.  Or I just didn't jooin, and told everyone it was evil and a piece of crap. You know, whichever. I was completely against it. Why even BOTHER with something as trivial as FaceBook when you have MySpace? But then...

The tides started turning. FaceBook got cool new shit. MySpace tried to get cool new shit, but it seemed like every little thing they did, slowed them down. It took me almost 3 minutes to get from a bulletin post to this blog. Complete with server time-out.

MySpace has some good stuff on it yet, I won't deny that. I love my little avatar thing. Buddy Poke, I think its called. And I love my Super Pet. God, the hours I spent gambling away my hard-earned fake dollars on that ap! But... FaceBook has it too. I haven't seen exactly those two aps, but I bet I will someday.

I love how I can go in and completely customize the way my MySpace looks and feels. I love the backgrounds and the layouts. I don't like going to someone's profile and seeing a stark empty space where something fun or colorful could be. Maybe thats my artist side, or maybe thats my inner child that I refuse to wrest control from. 

But I like getting on FaceBook and playing Pirates, or one of the zillion other fun things they have available. I like the way the wall posts are set up. I like being able to converse back and forth with people about someone else's status update. I like the picture posts, the friend recommendations, the quizzes... I think I like those the best...

I finally got a FaceBook account, after much badgering, and gave it ALMOST a fair shot. I hated it. I think the only reason, though, was because of my undying loyalty to my precious MySpace. After a month I closed my account. 

A month or maybe 2 ago, I reopened my account, again at the end of much badgering. Almost everyone is on FaceBook now. I haven't played my Never-ending Movie Quiz, but i spent a lot of time on Pirates. I haven't touched my Super Pet in months. I take about 4 quizzes a day sometimes... I've done maybe 2 MySpace surveys in the past 4 weeks. 

As much as I hate to admit it, I think MySpace may finally be dying out. FaceBook is the new shiny thing. There's more to do, and while I do occasionally find a bug in their shit, well... there aren't as many as there are in MySpace. I don't like that my profile isn't all shiny, but I like that it doesn't bog down my computer, trying to load 10,000 graphics and videos that people post and everything else. Its a pretty fair trade.

So, I guess this is what it comes to. Out with the old, in with the new. Its always been that way. I can pop onto FB anytime, day or night and see 6-10 people logged in. Used to be, I could see that many people on MS during the peak hours. I checked about 15 minutes ago, and 1 person is on. 

My dear MySpace... I won't abandon you to the depths of old age like some forgotten childhood toy. No, I will still faithfully log in at least once a day. I will check my bulletins and messages and status updates. But regretfully, I must inform you, you aren't my number 1 anymore. I will sit here, MySpace, by your side as your last dying breath leaves you... And it will be with a heavy heart that I eventually sign out for the last time, logging into FaceBoook. 

Hopefully, that time won't be soon, though I find it almost not worth it these days, to log in. No one really does much on here anymore. No one blogs much, if at all... Even I, the blog queen, havent uttered so much as a peep in ages...

Poor MySpace.