Inspired Muck

• Posted: May 4th 2007, 13:02

Almost a decade ago I began blogging with my Livejournal account. Sites like Blogger and Livejournal were fast growing toddlers. Both offered ways and means to customise your websites. I loved my LJ account and I was always on there looking at other peoples’ profiles. Nowadays these sites have matured incredibly. There are a plethora of features available to bloggers looking for a free way to blog. These brilliant services have been around for years.

So why is MySpace king of blogging/social networking? It’s ridiculous. The website has no properly followed web standards, the code is a big mess. The login management is incredibly buggy and I’m never sure who I’m logged in as.

Beyond that, people customise their profiles with absolute crap. They are permitted to express themselves with absolutely no standards whatsoever. Some would say that this is a wonderful freedom of expression. I call it absolute disarray. Never have I seen so many broken pages. Some pages kill my browser. Some pages cause mudslides in South America. I absolutely detest Myspace. But I have to conform, comply, adhere, obey, heed to the absolute masses of people who have a profile with that abomination of a so-called “social networking” site.

Come on guys, educate yourself, there are a million better sites out there. Even YouTube is a useful alternative to the norm. OK, you can’t necessarily have the same freedoms as you may experience with Myspace, but at least it’s clean, and sane, and doesn’t cause my eyes to burn every time I see a flashing background with some crappy song automatically starting each time I load a page.

Buy a domain, install blogging software (it’s idiot-proof – we geeks are providing you with easy installs) and run your own website. Please. For the sake of the gerbils. And my sanity.