Deanna Hoak

16 Responses to “MySpace”  

1. 1 ferragus Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:40 pm

   There used to be a truism that 90% of the folks that said they were woman on the net were actually men.

   Don’t think that’s the case so much anymore, but I’ll bet a large fraction of the hot 20-somethings are really old farts (like me!)

   Sorry you had to drop it, maybe when the net grows up a little bit, you can try it again.

2. 2 nihilistic_kid Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

   wow u r seyx

3. 3 ccfinlay Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:47 pm

   Not nearly as sexy as you are, baby.

4. 4 deannahoak Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

   Heh. Oh, I’m sure you’re right.

   I don’t expect the net is going to grow up anytime soon, though, alas.

   I would not let my kids put a profile on there, from what I experienced. Crap, the worries I have to look forward to….:-P

5. 5 medievalist Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

   I had a similar problem until a friend who habituted such sites explained that happily married was code for “I am only interested in no strings attached sex and not a long term relationship.”

   I changed my profile, and the weirdos left me alone.

6. 6 deannahoak Mar 27th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

   Well…huh. What did you change it to? That you were single?

7. 7 medievalist Mar 27th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

   I think so; it’s been a while, back when I was hired to research social software. I remember writing something about being socially hostile.

   Also, “new” members can be searched for, so trolls do that looking for (their term, not mine) “fresh meat.”

   And I would not let a child of mine use MySpace; Xanga is OK; LJ is much better–there are actuall privacy controls that work with active developers paying attention on LJ.

8. 8 ratmmjess Mar 27th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

   wow you are sey hey ware did u mYspAc account go

9. 9 raecarson Mar 27th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

   Yeah, I did the myspace thing too–with similar results. And I put up the ugliest pic I could find. Didn’t matter.

   By the way, u r so sexy. How r u?

10. 10 jmeadows Mar 27th, 2006 at 2:44 pm

    Heh. Yeah. I went there to see high school friends. Now I’m getting friend requests from people in my area who are waaay not my age (some are younger, some are older). Also, I say I’m married and a Christian and that I won’t be there often. But that doesn’t matter.

    MySpace is weird.

11. 11 finnswake Mar 27th, 2006 at 3:35 pm

    By the time I tried to “friend” you, you were gone. Now it all makes sense.

    Hey, MySpace is hardly the be-all, end-all. BUT, for shameless marketing purposes, it’s a peach.

12. 12 neutronjockey Mar 27th, 2006 at 10:04 pm

    Make your account private, that way only friends can view/comment.
    I just recently found a great YA author community on MySpace.
    But yes, it can be a spooky, spooky community as a whole.
    (and keep your kids, far, far (farfarfarfarfar) away from MySpace)

    -=Jeff=-

13. 13 barbarienne Mar 28th, 2006 at 3:26 am

    Sounds to me like the thing to post is that you are a woman desperate to get married and have a guy support you and do everything for you, as long as he doesn’t expect sex more than twice a year.

    OTOH, that would just bring out a whole different class of weirdo, I imagine.

14. 14 readwrite Mar 28th, 2006 at 8:03 am

    Musta been that “seyx” photo of you editing in the tube top that did it…

    All you need to do is join again, but post Lena the Hyena for a user photo:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mad11.png

    …although I guess that might attract comic book geeks…

15. 15 kr8vkat Mar 29th, 2006 at 6:30 am

    I was watching the news last night; they had a segment on Christian conservatives who think Christianity is “under attack.” One of the speakers at a conference made a comment that “MySpace.com is a porn hole.” It made me think of you and this entry. Porn hole? Such an odd turn of phrase!

16. 16 deannahoak Mar 29th, 2006 at 6:55 am

    Heh. That is an odd turn of phrase. I’ve not heard that one before. :-)

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