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What's been bugging me lately, a lot, is this "MySpace" thing. All these people with their little "please define and subcategorise me as a person" profiles with their posey photos and compulsive reviews of themselves. I don't understand why people are so keen to sell themselves on the internet.

I hate being pidgeon-holed as it is. Because my trousers are slightly baggy and perhaps I'm wearing a black t-shirt I am a goth, a mosher, a greb (not quite sure what that is). However it seems that these internet-profile kids are overly keen to be defined down to a tee with their tick-box lifestyle.

The fun thing, I've found, about meeting new people is that you're going to have differences of opinion, and if that person is reasonably-intellegent you can have fun discussion about things. You'll argue about which pub or club to go to, about which film to rent etc, but it's difference and not knowing about a person before you meet them that makes it worthwhile.

I've found that these "profiles" are a lot like product descriptions. They detail, in very broad manufacturers terms, why you should buy (or talk to) them and how awesomelly generic they are. It annoys me to see society sell itself out like this. It's putting relationships hand-in-hand with consumerism. The commies were right, capitalism is evil.

hahaha :' }

I don't like MySpace it's too chaotic compared to LJ.

livejournal.com/users/mermoid

Memorandum! wrote:
> Do you want to see my LJ?
> It's got loads of really cool poems I wrote when I was feeling
> depressed, alone and scared that the entire world was against me.

I'm glad :-)

I think I've seen it actually - but link me again, I'm sure it's as good as I remember.

I know what you mean...the amount people write about each other on Face-pic is amazing. Who would take that long to write about someone.

Its not just one person though. They write like 5 pages for every one of their friends!

Do you want to see my LJ?
It's got loads of really cool poems I wrote when I was feeling depressed, alone and scared that the entire world was against me.

I swear to God if it isn't a pish-take Memo I'll skin you...

wow this MySpace looks really cool.

I think I'll use it to replace my ageing LiveJournal.

Yeh thats what I meant. My cousin is called Akeem and his parents are Nigerian.

Mozzy wrote:
> Emitime's Space rules. Is Akeem Nigerian by any chance?

Think his parents might be. Pretty sure he'd be classed as British though.

Hoju wrote:
> My motto is labels are for clothes not people. My actions define who I
> am not my appearance or the way I talk.

Yeah exactly, thats how you should make up your mind about people - unless you plan on mating with them in which case looks matter. But making a CV to potential friend's is just lamery.

Emitime's Space rules. Is Akeem Nigerian by any chance?