I've got one and never look at it.  If anyone tries to contact me, I think it gets emailed through.  I use it every once in a while to try to find old friends, then forget it for a few months.

Then again, I just went and looked at it and I apparently had 6 messages waiting.  Oops.

http://profile.myspace.com/...

tom w- in the settings you can choose to have myspace notify you of new messages or not.

i think i spend too much time on myspace.  fun but addictive.  fun to personalize, and i like it because it makes it easier to keep in touch with friends.  what i don't like is that, well, drama queens annoy me personally, and myspace is just another outlet for them to carry on their drama.  i try to stay outta that.

Thanks, Emily H.  It's one of those things that I always think I'll do and never get to.

[Our other Emily is also Emily H., so I hope this doesn't cause any confusion.]

I'm not a fan of the drama aspect of it.  I had someone ask why they weren't in my "top 8".  I told them I didn't know how to do it.  ;)

Yes, I do. I had one previously that I was addicted to also. Changing the scheme often and messaging everyone.. Put tons of work into that site!. I got rid of it in a "mood" one day. Regretted it. Signed up again and am basically just starting over.

 

I do.  But, I rarely post on it. 

I signed up for one but have never posted anything on it since I have enough blogging right here on B.COM.  Any more time spent reading them and posting here and my lawn would never get mowed, the dogs would never get fed,  and I'd never make it to work.

Speaking of which...it's war paint time.

I signed up for MySpace so I could check out pages of young people who get killed in crashes or murdered. (That's what cop reporters do; check out backgrounds).

Many of the posts on MySpace are unprintable. Makes me wonder if any one cares about their reputations any more.

If I relied on MySpace for personal messages, I would be very lonely.

I don't have one and never will.

I'm too private of a person to ever create one and now prospective employers look them up. Just what you need is to post those "crazy" last weekend bender photos and then get passed up for that dream job. If I were to create one, it would be so sanitized that none would want to visit it anyway. Okay, I admit it, I'm just boring and a luddite.

Crank

I refuse to support anything owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Refuse to support anything owned by Rupert Murdoch? That could make for a difficult life.

You'd have to avoid the following (since he has at least partial ties to them):

Anything related to DirecTV

Your anti-lock brakes in your GM car

Don't ever research video games at IGN.com

Any of the Intermix sites (flowgo.com, smilepop.com, madblast.com, perfectgreetings.com, casesladder.com, myleague.com and about 20 others)

Of course anything Fox related (hope you're not an NFL or American Idol fan)

Any of about 175 papers worldwide (don't read the national papers when you're on that vacation to Papua New Guinea or Fiji)

Any HarperCollins or Zondervan published books (and that's a heck of a lot of books!)

TV Guide or the TV Guid channel

Never watch a baseball game that the Colorado Rockies are playing (hope you aren't a Dodgers fan, cause they play them like 16 times this year)

Hope you aren't a fan of movies, because if you saw any of these hits, you'd have crossed over (and I'm not even mentioning the ones that weren't necessarily "hits"): Night at the Museum, Devil Wears Prada, Borat, Ice Age, Walk the Line, the X-Men series, Cast Away, all of the Star Wars films, Titanic, Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, MASH, Patton...you get the idea

Oops I forgot the films done under Fox Searchlite...hope you're not an Oscar-nominated films fan: Notes on a Scandal, Last King of Scotland, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking, Sideways, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite (OK, not Oscar worthy, but ya know), Bend it like Beckham, Super Troopers, Quills, Boys Don't Cry (man my fingers are getting tired here)

And don't think it's just Fox, FX and Fox News on TV. You'll have to avoid the SPEED Channel (though most people do that anyway) and National Geographic

OK, so I think you get the point.

Here's hoping your dollars haven't gone into supporting any of these ventures. God forbid anyone support Rupert Murdoch.

Oh, and for the record, I can't stand Fox News, I don't like Rupert Murdoch and I cancelled my subscription to the Papau New Guinea national paper recently (bad comics and annoying sticky notes on the cover).  I'm just not inclined to believe you're accomplishing anything by refusing to "support" anything he owns.

Difficult, maybe, but not impossible. I'm sure he doesn't miss my contributions but I really don't care. Who says I was trying to "incline" you to believe I was accomplishing anything? I don't care what you get out of it.

Hmmm. I was just going for the have fun with it humor angle. But you could go that way too I guess.

i have a myspace page and i love it. i spend about 2 hours a day on it as i am a stay at home mom and when my son is sleeping i get online...  i use it to communicate with my fiancee who is over in walter reed awaiting eye surgery.  i use it to find old friends, make plans with current ones and post pictures, blogs, bullitens....  when i lived in vegas i used it to get on the guestlists for nightclubs and lounges, i still get invites to open bar night and big events out there.  i made a lot of friends through myspace when i lived in vegas and actually accquired a nightclub promoting job through it.  and when i move to germany, or where ever they decide to send my future husband, my son and me, i will use it to keep in touch with everyone back here...   myspace is awesome. <3

Steve, I think I now know why the average age on MySpace is 33. Reporters and Police.

Those and prospective employers

I have one, check it every other day. Have friends from roseanne world there.  have known them for 8 years... Roseanne has a myspace that she goes by rosey! She writes me a message back sometimes... She and I go toe to toe about religion in a video on roseanneworld.com. lol  still friends though!

I am a 55 year old wife, mom & grandma, and I have a MySpace page.  It helps me keep in touch with our far-flung, multi branched family.  It's fun to see who turns up from the distant past.  I don't spend time re-inventing my page - I like it the way it is, as it represents me as I think I am.  I do check it out at least every other day or so.  I recently discovered by a "school search" that a co-worker and I graduated from the same high school same year - but we didn't know each other back then!

Yeap got one of those.  Have had one for quite sometime.  I am on all my kids MySpaces also.  I am a parent that believes in getting into my kids business to know what they are up to.  I should say that is why I got one in the first place. But since then I have found some great people that I lost contact with after high school.  Also it is a great way for my family who is all over the USA to stay up on everyone's everything.  Even my 78/79 year old parents have one.  In fact with my MySpace is how I found out about all you guys.  Even my hybrid Labradoodle has one "Ipod The Dog" .  I don't have anything to be ashamed at showing to anyone of my family or friends but I am not on there for the big hook up as many people might think that is what MySpace is for.  I think that it has brought my nieces and nephews closer to me since I can see what they are up to on a daily basis.  I will say that early part of this year I took a 2 week vacation from it.  It took all of my strength not to log on and check things out but I did it.  I managed to stay off of MySpace for exactly 15 days even if it killed me.  Several of my friends tried to kill the cat with curiosity but I am still alive.  I try to limit my time on it because it can get very addicting but anything in moderation. If it weren't for Myspace I would not have found all this great reading and blogging going on over around here.