MySpace QUOTES

1 " Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off "

2 " Because she left him a MySpace message that was semi-flirty, and then today he was very vague about what he was doing. So I headed over to his house and waited outside until he left. And now he’s at McDonald’s, and I’m following him to see where else he’s going.” MySpace is seriously going to be responsible for everyone losing their minds. "

― Lauren Barnholdt , Two-Way Street

3 " Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey? "

― Nenia Campbell , Tantalized

4 " Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery. "

― Stevie Nicks

5 " [T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public. "

― Clay Shirky , Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

6 " Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990S had the flavor of personhood. MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely.

If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form. It is utterly strange to hear my many old friends in the world of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance without realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are. "

― Jaron Lanier , You Are Not a Gadget

7 " I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join. "

8 " I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it. "