Yet another useless junk heap

I am so proud of Jenny’s Seven reasons why I hate MySpace. I especially like this one:

Becase it’s teaching the next generation to treat the web like a junk heap of useless repeating videos and not a useful tool

It’s a nice (and accidental) rebuttal to my recent acceptance of the real new Web.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it’s always nice to have some textual context. And it helps if the picture is something more than an endless animated GIF (I edited this one to only loop five times–not that it makes it any better).

But I think of ringtones and how my friend Jon once compared them to teenage scribblings on Pee Chee folders. MySpace profiles are even closer, except they’re trackable, yet easily changeable, a dynamic with both advantages and disadvantages.

I’m not sure there’s a solution to the junk heap problem. I’m not sure if we even need a solution, especially since the kids after the MySpace generation seem to be some enterprising ones.

(Still want to see that kid loop continuously? Click here).