Yup, I’m one of them now. Well, not really. I don’t think I’ll be spending that much time there. But I did finally join. As you can tell by the time I’m up late. For months now I’ve always had trouble getting to sleep on Sunday night, no matter what time I go to sleep on the weekend. The sad thing is I’m not even a party animal as anyone who knows me will attest. I go to bed an hour or two tops later on the weekend than I normally do, and I get up about an hour later than normal. But for some reason it’s just impossible for me to get to sleep on Sunday nights. My sister recommended a natural sleep aid called Lullaby which I really need to get and give it a try (I’ve done sleeping pills and while you do technically sleep while under those, trust me, it’s not a sleep that makes you rested at all!). Unfortunately I never remember to get them except for about 1 AM on a Sunday night when I’m sitting around thinking “gee, I wish I had something to help me sleep!”

So anyways, I joined myspace just for kicks. I found out you can do a search by high school and I ended up finding ou there are at least three other gay men and one lesbian from my graduating class! So weird. Myspace does have some interesting social networking features (not really unique to them, but they’re implemented well) that allow you to find others that share common interests and quickly get a glimpse of what a person is like. But, aside from that, basically what you get are a bunch of really obnoxious personal home pages that would make a UX (user experience) web designer’s skin crawl, and they all look the same to boot. I mean the layouts are atrocious, most people put these graphics behind the text that make it impossible to read, and the pags just look so thrown together, it’s just too awful!

What I also get a kick out of is these big companies laying down serious moola for these “social networking sites”, and really they’re just one fad after another. I went to friendster earlier (which I haven’t been to in months) and you could literally feel how much more dead it was. For example, I noticed the “last login” date for most myspace accounts I came across was the last day or two, for friendster so many of them read “not logged in in the last 3 weeks”. And Rupert paid how much for myspace?