Myspace sucks. The saga continues

These are my 6 reasons why I think Myspace.com is the most overrated thing on the web. 

1. It’s slow. 

For a site that supposed to be the great torchbearer of web 2.0, it crawls. Pictures take forever to load, songs take forever to load and don’t even attempt to do a friend search.

2. Speaking of Pictures. 

Okay I get it, you wanna show off the pics from last nights party or you been hitting the gym and now you want the world to see your pecs.  Well why not use Flickr.com or Theblackstripe.com or one of the other sites for digital picturing sharing.  These sites are faster and more user friendly than Myspace. 

3. Numbers lie. 

How many registered users does Myspace have? Maybe 10 million, 50 million, 100 million?  Who cares?  The number of people who are actually on the site on a daily basis is a just a fraction of the registered users.  I know people who haven’t gone back to the site since they first registered.  Yeah, there is a lot of activity on the site, but it seems to be generated by a small percentage of its total members. 

4. I Have 250 friends.

Or do I? The friends you acquire via Myspace aren’t really friends.  Most of the users have hundreds of “friends”, but have never met any of these people.  I’m not saying you have to meet a person to befriend them.  But, you have to leave more than message on their Myspace page ever few months to consider someone a friend.  Most people don’t even do that much, they just accept every friend invite that is sent to them.  Yeah, c’mon Busty Blonde 2006 is really your friend. 

5. Annoying Advertising

I know that websites have to make money.  But the advertisements on the site are just ridiculous.  There big, flashy, animated and just makes the users experience unpleasant. 

6. Find your niche

Myspace is just a big mash of site that has millions of members.  None of its features are spectacular.  There are numerous sites on the web now that offer better features as well as members who actually use the site on a regular basis.  For example if digital photo file-sharing is your thing, you might like the aforementioned flickr.com better.  If you’re trying to keep up with classmates from high school, why not try classmates.com.  If you’re in high school, give Facebook.com or Sconex.com a whirl.  Recently divorced and need someone to talk to?  Sweetsecond.com is your place

I know there are a dozen other reasons why Myspace sucks, but this is all I could think of now.