New MySpace Logo
Did you see? MySpace just came out with a new logo:
I like it a lot! I think it gets to the heart of what MySpace is all about, i.e., seeing this error every other time you click something. I want to respond to both of the statements made in this error message, the first one first:
1) Not to me it wasn’t!
2) I doubt it!
Luckily, the friends I’m trying to add are mostly fake sexy lady profiles that belong to spammers who are going to fill my comments with garbage. The geniuses behind the scenes do eventually find and remove these profiles which is why my comments section starts with 21 of these:
Code Monkey: “Hey Rob, you want me to delete the SPAM comments when I delete the SPAM profiles, or should I leave them there?”
Rob: “Let’s choose the middle course – leave the comments there, but remove their content so they no longer have any value, and yet still take up space.”
Oh also? When you click the Home link after getting this error it doesn’t bring you to your profile page until you click the Home link again – so you get to see twice as many Sierra Mist ads!
And when you want to change your top friends, you might find it hard to sort through all your friends and find the ones you want, were it not for this great box:
See, you can choose to search by email, or, well, by email. As you might expect from looking at this interface, the Find button does nothing, and the Browse All button makes the Browse All button disappear. And then your pants fall down and your house catches fire. How did we ever get by without this wonderful tool?
Sorry MySpace kids. I love you very much.
Comments
Glenn says
I was amused/intensely frustrated by how the spam comments stay in my e-mail, even when profiles are deleted/ Yay spam!
The new logo is perfect.
Cellar says
Waha aha ha! Myspace sucks and blows...AT THE SAME TIME!
PML says
What I really hate is the fact I can't seem to convince my friends to leave MySpace...It's a horrid little black hole, and no matter the problems it has, my pals won't try anything new...They can't see that MySpace is the Ford Futura of the Internet, and we need to find the Geo Metro--simple, effective, and though you might not admit it in public--cool looking.
Glenn says
You, sir or madam, have insulted Ford Futuras, and I will not have it. Do Ford Futuras throw huge pictures of soft porn on your windscreen when you drive? Do Ford Futuras force you to pick up hitchhikers? Do Ford Futuras crash without warning? Well, maybe, but I bet not as often!
Matt says
Rob's quite articulate for a zombie.
Do I hear the origins of an anti-myspace song emerging?
ironymaiden says
all the cool kids are on livejournal.
Nate says
As I posted on the lj feed...
Amen.
When an error occurs every 2nd time you click on ANY LINK EVER, it's no longer "unexpected".
Fred says
I think it's almost cute the way we think there's some *programming* behind MySpace.
Eric Ginsberg says
I recant.
minimo says
Ha!
Maybe MySpace misunderstood, and they hired *real* monkeys.
Jonathan gives us more reasons to love him every day.
Jennifer says
Hooray!! I think PML got close with the mention of the "horrid little black hole." It's a dreadful accumulation of so much insigificance that a horrible sucking vortex forms around itself, pulling in all significant things along with it (such as "self-respect," or "hesitancy vis-Ã -vis stalking"). I eagerly await the day it implodes, yet there's no guarantee its progeny will be any better....
Jeremy Henty says
LOL! File this quote under "It's funny because it hurts, and it hurts because it's true".
Adam says
Sierra Mist advertises? huh.
Alex says
This is why you should join www.facebook.com , it would make your 2 fan clubs incredibly happy.
Glenn says
This is why you should join LiveJournal -- it would make your loyal minions there very happy.
Matt says
Gosh darn it, Jonathan. Why aren't you everywhere doing everything at all times? I mean, how can you expect to maintain a decent fan base if you spend all your free time with frivilous things like family, friends and sleeping instead of builing and updating 5,374,982 intertube profiles? It's just ... hold on ... there was so much sarcasm dripping off that one my basement is flooding.
Danny Howard says
Please don't waste any more of your time on MySpace than you have to. Blogging about MySpace is kind of like babbling about how your retarded brother is constantly doing very dumb things.
I mean.
It's MySpace.
Of course it sucks.
Thanks,
-danny
Paul says
LOL, yeah, I bailed on MySpace after realizing that the average mental age of their tech support staff is less than half the physical age of their target demographic.
Michael says
Eric feels like recanting. I feel like decanting.
Sierra Mist ads? I should be so lucky. Would that, when I demonstrated MySpace to mySpouse, a Sierra Mist ad had popped up instead of the one that did, foot-long cleavage and all.
Robert Headley says
Myspace is going to collapse on itself and maybe someone other than fox will buy it when its value depreciates...
Google is pretty good at that kind of thing.
veko says
I'll admit that MySpace isn't complete crap but, it is broken. You know, like a TV that is foggy, only displays on the bottom right quarter of the screen, and randomly shuts off so you have to turn it back on even though all the buttons are missing forcing you to use a butter knife to do it.
But, shit, Empire Strikes Back is showing on it so you have to watch.
Why can't we see the good content on a good service?
mathew says
http://meta.ath0.com/articles/2006/10/26/myspace-jumps-the-shark
Allegedly people are already leaving MySpace.
Phallicus says
Thank god for all of the pornstar profiles and tween trollops. Why, without them, Myspace might be credible to some extent as a legitimate service!
Glenn says
>Google is pretty good at that kind of thing.
Well, Google made Orkut, which is kind of cool, but also sucks in its own way. Of course, it doesn't suck NEARLY as much as MySpace.
Nehemiah says
Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother - or anyone how to sort it?
Joker says
Does anybody found the solution for the Friend Finding Filter problem?
Thanx!
Joker
The Willy, Gilbert & AJ Show says
Simply situation: MySpace deserves to rot in hell.
kai says
does anyone know how to delete the spam comments that doesnt have a delete button
ummmm jackie says
Ok, i see u guys complaining about myspace? But it also brings losts of problems that led me single to mingle, and it also lets you find people you have lost contact with, I mean how do you think i found my babydaddy for my money?
ummmm jackie says
>Gosh darn it, Jonathan. Why aren’t you everywhere doing everything at all times? I mean, how can you expect to maintain a decent fan base if you spend all your free time with frivilous things like family, friends and sleeping instead of builing and updating 5,374,982 intertube profiles? It’s just … hold on … there was so much sarcasm dripping off that one my basement is flooding.
LOTFLMFAO
Colin says
Hilarious!