I was feeling guilty about slamming the webpages on MySpace in the last entry.  I think it’s great that people are creating and owning a little piece of real estate on the internet.  And no one should ever feel bad about creating bad design.  We certainly didn’t “back in the day.”  And even now I don’t.  I can’t sing worth beans either, but I still do.

It’s just that MySpace annoys me, and I have no idea why.  I feel like it shouldn’t even be on my radar – that I shouldn’t be bothered by something so nonrelevant to my life.  I try to tell myself that it’s a great place for the kids, like Deviant Art or Lolita Snap which I totally adore and surf all the time.  I think that what the kids are doing on those sites is creative and brilliant!  But, for some reason, I find MySpace… what’s the right word… … just annoying.  It’s my personal black hole on the internet.

One day I am going to have to explore this dislike.  Although I think a fair bit of it is the webpage format that the MySpace engine forces people to use.  I find those pages so… ugh! just practically impossible to read.  MySpace is this massive website filled with page after page after page of jumbled, busy, badly-designed, difficult-to-read webpages.

I thought of a real life metaphor for the the MySpace webpages.  This is what my computer room once looked like:

The Woodings’ Computer Room
January 2006

Would you be able to find anything? Is it pleasing to look at?  It’s unorganized and a mess.  It’s practically nonfunctional.  This is what I see when I look at MySpace pages.  This is why they annoy the heck out of me.

ps. My silly, Halloween mouse-over effect still makes me laugh. :)  Silliness is a good thing.