I awarded MySpace today with my coveted Tosspot of the Year Award. After spending many hours designing one of the few legible profiles on the site, and bringing more than a few visitors their way, I feel I can no-longer uphold this relationship built on spite, malice, and greed (and all that coming from MySpace's end of the bargain).
It all started when MySpace decreed it was to use a new "spammer blocking system", which did a grand total of fuck all to stop spammers using MySpace. What it did do though, was stop anyone creating links to legitimate sites in their profiles which even vaguely hinted at being in competition with MySpace. Therefore all links to my blog were in one fell swoop rendered completely and utterly useless.
Being the enterprising young chap that I am, within 10 minutes I'd found a way around their blatant censorship of legitimate users, and put the method onto the internet for others to be able to use. It took MySpace about a month, but eventually they found out what was going on, and blocked my workaround. I lost heart in finding another way around their Nazism, and lost interest in their site.
The final blow came today, when, after sending them an email complaining of their censorship I got this response:
Hi there,Well golly, thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to reply to me personally there, MySpace! I sure do feel swell now, and can't wait to get on with using all those fancy new features you've been installing lately (or err... not), that everyone has been asking you for since... oh... the dawn of time. I'm really happy that you consider my comments so important that you'll do absolutely sod all about them.
Thank you for sharing your comments and suggestions. We consider them
important and will take them under advisement.
MySpace.com
I shall henceforth be reducing my myspace profile to a page that does nothing but slag myspace off. You're not the only crap social networking site out there MySpace, but you are the crappest, and therefore I crown thee Tosspot of the year. I shall be taking my social networking needs elsewhere, probably the pub, where I shall delight in chasing many monkeys, punching many boxers, and helping many things (amphibian and otherwise) to cross roads in the hope of winning a free ringtone, all the while laughing manically at your expense.
Tossers.
It amuses me that this entry shows up with your standard "don't forget to check MySpace!" footer.
ReplyDeleteI axed my myspace page about a month ago. I dunno why you've put so much energy into fighting these guys -- it wastes your time & annoys the pig. :)
ReplyDelete@ andrew: Dammit, I'm still a myspace whore, and I didn't even know it! All this time, and my blog was working against me!
ReplyDelete@ steve: You leave the pig out of this. I raised that pig since it was born on the day I started my myspace, and when I finally press delete on my account, I hope my pig goes to the great friends list in the sky. (And his juicy bacon goes in my belly. Yum)