Myspace, love it or hate it; Me? I hate the ever loving (insert inappropriate expletive here) out of it. The layout sucks, spam filtering is a joke and unless you’re single, there’s little to no point in signing up. Not that long ago I went ahead and canceled my own account along with about forty five friends, all of whom I knew personally. So losing the account didn’t really mean the end of any friendships, at least not any real ones.

Four months later, free of the teenage angst, drama and clutches of the “I’ve turned to the dark side” Tom, there was finally some peace to be had. But then for whatever idiotic reason I ended up creating a new account, trying to keep it strictly known to work related friends only. Three weeks later, I’ve already been bombarded by dozens of fake profiles requesting me to add me to their friends list. Being away for so long, I hadn’t known about sheer number of spam bots that have been infecting Myspace. But it wasn’t until I saw this fake profile from a fake friend request today that I just decided to give up all over again:

Isn’t that awesome? Fake people leaving fake comments for fake profiles! Pretty soon all of Myspace will be full of nothing but acne faced cybernetic beings capable of conversing all by themselves. Seriously who needs humans anyway?

Do yourself the biggest favor in the world; delete your Myspace profile, it feels so good. In fact I’m off right now to delete mine for a second time and hopefully the last.

If your anything like me, you hate seeing poorly done MySpace pages. How can you get the most friends on your profile list without trying? Simple! All you need to do is make your profile page look spectacularly scandalacious. With the new software Webfetti, awesome web sites just got awesomer. Check inside for full details!
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Ever have trouble getting friends on MySpace and wonder if having a lot of friends ultimately leads to getting more friend requests? If you’re like me, then you are always looking for ways to find more friends on MySpace without actually having to socialize. Don’t add me, I don’t need your pity add.

Read on as I go undercover for the NextLust exclusive story. All the details inside!
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So here’s the story, a 13 year old poses as an 18 year old (pics or it didn’t happen is a life rule) and meets up with some 19 year old online. Then they meet up in real life and of course this leads to sexual assault on the dude’s part. Big shock. If there’s one lesson I can give to any readers it’s that all people online are scumbags, even me. Moving on.

The family of the girl tried to sue myspace for fraud, negligence and some such nonsense. Fortunately the judge found Myspace not liable because they were third party interactions. Basically, if you dial a random phone number and then meet up with the person and get last night’s pizza beat out of you, it’s not AT&T’s fault. That’s the general idea. People, for the love of all things hot and spicy, take responsibility for your own actions. I’m looking at you, unaware parents.

[Via Yahoo News]

In a strange marketing twist that it probably didn’t need MySpace has decided to hold a competition. The competition is for those in the UK and the prize is a chance to direct a £1,000,000 movie to be released in 2008. Short films will be submitted by entrants and then finalists will be chosen by filmmakers. Then the finalists are subjected to user votes a la American Idol.

They’re holding this competition in conjunction with Vertigo Films and the contest runs up until April 27. For some reason the combination of MySpace, user votes, the current quality of movies and possibly my general pessimism makes me think all we’ll get is another Uwe Boll. Come next year though, I’ll probably be sitting here waiting to torrent the sucker.

[Via BBC News]

Remember a while ago when the “Samy is my hero” worm broke out on Myspace and automatically added you as a friend? Right, me neither. My conclusion: Samy’s a dick and deserves whatever he gets, all hail News Corp!

Samy Kamkar is actually being forced to pay Myspace restitution for his worm. I cannot see Myspace really needing any money, unless Tom is fishing for that new underwater mini-bar he saw in Sky Mall. God, people with money piss me off.

Fines aside, Samy my hero has to endure 90 days of community of service, but here’s the real kicker. He is now officially banned from the internet for an undisclosed amount of time. Bummer dude.

[via SCMag]

For those without a clue here is the story of went down in October 2005 via Wikipedia:

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