Expanding into the realms of children with too much time on our hands

[chronarchy]

Due to a weird note into the ADF Office, I now have a Myspace Account. I honestly have no idea what the thing does or can do, but. . . yeah.

I also signed up for one of those damn Facebooks, too. *sighs* I'm feeling too old for this stuff.

But I'm probably still too young to write chants. . .

Comments

[singingwren]

Hahaha, you got a Facebook. *points and laughs*

Actually, I used it once to get a Chem lab assignment I didn't have by looking up all people in Chem 102 and randomly calling some... it was awesome. I got help right away.

Most people seem to want to use it to hit on people, though, and that's creepy. I mean, cute army boys aside, how shady is it when they find you through Facebook and try to act like they know you IRL? Don't trust anybody hot on Facebook 'cause it's probably not their picture. Same goes for LJ, lol.

I'll report back with Facebook findings after I screw around with it tonight.

[chronarchy]

No, with LJ you can tell the ugly ones by how close their face is to the camera, how many weird colour filters they use, and how many of their icons are not actual pictures :) I imagine similar rules go for facebook.

[singingwren]

Aw, not true. You just don't appreciate art. Anything 'artistic', aka filtered, coloured, or played with, you dismiss. And what about my icon, huh?! It's not a real photograph.

For some reason, I always thought of having an icon of *myself* as vain.

[chronarchy]

Vain? I suppose I could see that.

Re: "artistic" stuff? Wow, you don't know the half of it :) I realized just how much I dislike artistic stuff on Sunday.

But as for filters and stuff, they're generally used to hide imperfections and, to me, convey a low self-esteem. Which I find remarkably unattractive.

[chronarchy]

It was an interesting mail, I admit.

I'm totally into the spam, man. I really want to know how to make my woman cry in pain at the enormous size of my manhood (easily done for $19.95 per bottle of herbal pills with no advertized side-efects from Canada) and how to get OEM software for pennies completely legally. Oh, and there's this Nigerian banker who's offered me about 10 million dollars because he could tell by the way my email address is spelled that I'm a trustworthy individual.

Don't worry, sleepingwolf. I won't forget the little people when I'm rich, running Adobe Photoshop, and tying my penis to my leg because it's too long to leave lying about.

[chronarchy]

Wow. I simply *must* get that!

Where do I send my bank account info and SSN?

[rfunk]

I think having a Facebook thingy automatically makes you too young to write chants, in anybody's eyes. :-)

[chronarchy]

On the bright side, I'll never "catch up" in age to the woman who told me I was too young to write chants. So I'll officially always be "too young".

[triskele]

**dies laughing** oh god, you win the thread

[triskele]

I'm glad you did it! I looked at the 'problem' and almost signed up to investigate more, but in the end could not bring myself to sign up.

[chronarchy]

I'm pending a response from the person to figure out what, exactly, the issue is. I have a feeling that the response that I send him is going to be the same no matter what I find. . .

[qorinda]

I thought your response was good. I looked up the profile when I read that tech message, and I, too, thought, "So, what's the problem?" and then I saw his interests. Rather scary and I can see why she questioned it.

The ironic thing is that I was invited to join ADF's myspace yesterday also, and I didn't even know there was such a thing! But, I was invited by someone I know, so it was okay. Now if I can only figure out how to ACCESS it!

[chronarchy]

Go here:

http://groups.myspace.com/myspaceadf

And click "join group"

(I had some trouble navigating there, too.

[qorinda]

I just put up a myspace account also. It kind of freaks me out a bit. It seems so FOREIGN to me, yet when I look at people's pages, it has all kinds of cool stuff happening. I feel so NON-geeky.

[rfunk]

MySpace freaks me out too, and I'm so geeky I'm running my own web and email servers.

[chronarchy]

MySpace is a totally different kind of "geeky", I think.

[heimskringla]

I'm also in the "I have a Myspace, but I don't get it" crowd. I can run an IRC server and administer an Apache server, but Myspace is my VCR clock.