My name is Sarah Andrews and I am Myspaceaholic. I hold my hand up, there’s no point in even denying it, I am truly and utterly obsessed with Myspace.
Rupert Murdoch, you have A LOT to answer for. He is the equivalent of my drug dealer, albeit one I have never met or spoken to, but the likening is still relevant.
Beginnings of An Obsession
I became a member of Myspace sometime in 2005 I think? I was not obsessed at this point, I was not even really aware of what it was. I then logged back in about January 2006 and realised that all the people I knew in real life (or a lot of them) had added me on there.
This added a whole new dimension to it! You could spy on the people you fancied, peep over at what your nemesis was doing without adding them as a friend!
But the obsession became much worse than that. It came to the point where I was changing my profile layout every few weeks, just so it looked variable. How sad was/is that? I still do it. The main point is so people don’t get bored and will keep looking at my profile! I should of course not care if people look at my profile or not, but then let’s face it, I wouldn’t be a member of Myspace in the first place if that were true.
Vanity
Many people make fun of the people on Myspace, like they can’t understand the whole concept of it. What is the point truly of it? Perhaps it is that it allows us to be a different person than we are in real life. One that is judged as quickly, but the online persona is one that has time to think of replies, can define themselves in the genres of music/films and ‘About Me’.
I am sure many people spend hours wondering what to write in there. It is a way of saying to people ‘I am interesting, really!’ I don’t mock this of course, because I AM A PART OF IT. I am as guilty as the next person.
What I am really guilty of is the picture taking. The ‘Myspace’ posing. I suppose there is a disdain of people for people like me who pose for photos. It is however through Myspace that I discovered I really like photography, and so started taking photos of others things besides myself.
The Enemy
Recently, I have discovered that people are also getting addicted to Facebook, which is a every similar concept. The one thing that I don’t personally like about Facebook is that you can not design the layout of your page; you don’t have any songs playing. Everybody’s profile is the same!
The advantages of Myspace:
1) Discovering new music
2) Networking
3) Finding out about classified things such as ‘Extras wanted’ and ‘Singers wanted’.
4) Making fun of your friends dodgy photos.
Disadvantages:
1) The need to prove yourself through your profile.
2) The feeling of self worth you have when you receive comments.
3) Emos
4) Ex’s stalking you.
5) People obsessively positing bulletins with questionnaires that no body cares about.
There you go, I have admitted my obsession. I do not have any shame and I know there are millions like me! Does that make it okay? No, but we are guilty in numbers and I say that Myspaceaholics should unite!
