Do you have a My Space Page and what do you think of My Space?

United States
August 7, 2007 12:16pm CST
Do you have a my space page and what do you think about my space? I like my space because through it I have connected with alot of old friends from high school that I haven't seen in years. What about you?
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
7 Aug 07
I see that MySpace has helped you restore some old friendships. I think that's a wonderful thing, and a decent reason to ignore the problems I see with it. I created a profile on MySpace, then quickly abandoned it. People are spamming like crazy there. Ever since I washed my hands clean of Yahoo!, and setup a system to avoid inbox spam, I've learned it's up to me whether I deal with spam or not. I choose not to.
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• United States
7 Aug 07
Yes My space does have a huge spam problem. But I just delete them and report them and go on. However if it wasn't for wanting to keep touch with my friends no I would not be there because of all the spam.
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
7 Aug 07
Yes, I know how to report them, and I also have the e-mail addresses of authorities who deal with each specific type of spam. But when spammers are working with botnets, proxies, and the like; constantly creating new false e-mail accounts and spoofing the addresses of others, it really doesn't make a difference. The spam problem continues to get worse, not better. Great Britain says over 90% of all the outgoing e-mail in their country is spam now. The only thing you can do is avoid spammers. I keep spam out of my inbox using certain technologies, providers, and disciplines. Whenever I submit my address in a place where I'm afraid it might be abused, I give them my Yahoo! address. This way, my real e-mail accounts don't see the trouble. It's a convenient thing when you're able to keep 100% of spam out of your inbox. It's even more convenient when the volume of messages in your spam/pending folder is almost nonexistent, so you can quickly and easily identify e-mail that you actually want. I honestly don't mean to undermine the importance of a meaningful friendship, but I'm a tech, and security is part of my livelihood. It's my job to take Internet threats seriously, including the new spoofs that claim to come from friends. They could ask for personally identifiable information, or contain code that might compromise your computer. In case my friends change e-mail addresses, I give them my Bluebottle e-mail address. I'll always have it, and I never check the spam folder myself. If they use a new e-mail address, Bluebottle will automatically send them a "challenge." When they respond to the challenge, they verify that they are human, and are automatically added to my whitelist. This is how my long lost friends can contact me. :)
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• United States
7 Aug 07
I have a myspace page and I like it. I don't frequent it as much as I used to though. There are so many other sites that are offering the same thing, only they are willing to share some revenue. I guess I would rather use something else and make a bit of money, rather than use myspace to make just the owner rich. :o)