12
2008
Alas, poor MySpace, I knew him, Horatio… (Come on, it’s from Hamlet)
Ok, see if you can guess what these three things have in common (man, I haven’t played TriBond in forever!!):
- One Million Dollars
- A Third Hand
- A MySpace Account
Give up? The commonality that links these three seemingly unrelated things together is… I don’t have any of them!
I certainly don’t have a million dollars or a third hand, but as of today (or sometime within the next 48 hours, according to my confirmation email), I no longer have a MySpace account. Now, I know, some of you might be thinking, “BUT WHY???” So, for your reading pleasure, I’ve compiled a short list of reasons that we should all perhaps delete our accounts from that seemingly innocent “place for friends”:
- I really haven’t gotten a worthwhile, life altering, point-of-view changing comment on my MySpace page since… forever
- Since I’m married (and it said so on my profile), you’d think that MySpace would know that and stop showing my ads for meeting “Singles in the Orlando Area.”
- Adding to #2, I really think that if MySpace were truly a “place for friends,” then the girls in the advertisements would have a LOT more clothing on. I don’t have any friends that dress like that.
- As far as meeting “friends,” when was the last time you ever heard of someone meeting someone else from MySpace and that being a good thing? (I’ve personally never met anyone from MySpace, but my guess is that you’ve got a 50/50 shot of it turning out to be Chris Hansen or someone from Perverted Justice)
- I’m pretty sure that the average MySpace user is somewhere between the age of 12 and 12 1/2 years old (although on their profile, it is listed as 99 years old from Albequerque, NM) and I no longer find myself in that demographic (thank goodness, because I can no longer afford that much Strydex).
- It just seems that I’ve got a better chance of connecting with old friends (which is really the point, isn’t it?) on Facebook or even, God forbid, on the phone (do people still use those?).
So world, consider this my “Hanging up of the MySpace towel.” It is over. Finished. Fin (but not the kind that dolphins have).
August 12, 2008 9:35 am
I don’t have an account with any of them (myspace, facebook, linkd). And I intend to stay that way.
August 12, 2008 10:44 am
I hate MySpace and have never made an account, and never will.
August 20, 2008 6:14 am
Josh has, without a doubt, received his unlimited vocabulary and rapier wit directly from his Grandpa Gary…I find it most refreshing to read such cerebral musings…
October 1, 2008 6:46 am
Having grown as a Quaker”, I can understand how having the “church” controlling your life can be unsettling to many young people; however, allowing Chirst to control your life is a different matter…The Quaker blief does not require or expect the traditional “assembly to worship” as most religions; however, it does not discourage this practice…Silent meetings are common where the “spirit” is the guide to worship..
Experiencing God
George Fox and the other early Quakers believed that direct experience of God was available to all people, without mediation (e.g. through hired clergy, or through outward sacraments). Fox described this by writing that “Christ has come to teach His people Himself.”
Modern Friends often express this belief in many ways, including the attitude of trying to see “[the light] of God in everyone”; finding and relating to “the Inner light”, “the inward Christ”, or “the spirit of Christ within.”[9] Early Friends more often used terms such as “Truth”, “the Seed”, and “the Pure Principle”, from the principle that each person would be transformed as Christ formed and grew in them. The ability to “see the light” or see “that of God in everyone” enables Quakers to cast aside more superficial differences and focus on the spiritual elements which connect all people.
Since Friends believe that each contains God, much of the Quaker perspective is based on trying to hear God and to allow God’s Spirit free action in the heart. Isaac Penington wrote in 1670: “It is not enough to hear of Christ, or read of Christ, but this is the thing — to feel him my root, my life, my foundation…”
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