Ever since the acquisition (or for some of you, inquisition I suppose) of MySpace by News Corp., I’ve noticed a lot of changes in the way that MySpace works.

First off, it has become a horrid breeding ground for crappy media attempts at being “hip” and “cool” or “in” or whatever the hell kids call being socially attractive these days. You know the whole “Let’s add this random person as a friend and use them to promote our new movie!” or some crap like that. It’s really aggravating.

Secondly, I’m getting tired of the censorship. I personally haven’t noticed it, but I’m hearing a lot more stories about how MySpace is randomly censoring links to other websites, or people that talk down Rupert Murdoch, they find their posts mysteriously vanishing. It usually ends with the posts mysteriously reappearing and them chalking it up to an “error”. Look MySpace, you don’t fool anybody. This current war against other websites with “My” and/or “Space” in their name demonstrates that you’re absolutely terrified of competition, even from websites that benefit MySpace itself! (Such as the layout websites with similar names.) You are doing nothing but alienating the population, and I swear to God, if I hear one more thing about “Web 2.0″ shenanigans, I’m going to stab someone in the face. I’m tired of hearing the term because it has no real meaning. It was created to try and demonstrate a superiority over other websites and services. I could say my asshole is “Shit 2.0 Compatible” but it wouldn’t mean anything. Point is, I’m tired of MySpace’s crazy adventures into fascism, and I’m tired of people saying < INSERT NAME OF SOMETHING HERE > 2.0 to mean “Holier Than Thou.”

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