Myspace

I am shocked by the level of maturity people drop when they use myspace. Who has their friends in certain order, who deleted a friend to prove a point, who checks up on who through myspace, who changed their relationship status...BLAH BLAH BLAH. Seriously, people why waste the energy getting so upset about a ridiculous online networking site. Hasn't anyone ever heard the words of wisdom "don't believe everything you read"? When myspace and facebook were introduced I was very anti the online networking site, but push came to shove and I eventually gave in and joined the site. I am proud to say that I haven't gone looking for random people, trying to find friends from kindergarten or anything crazy like that. My friends are the people that have found me and that want to know what I am up too, I in turn get the pleasure of seeing what they are up to as well. It all works out in the end, or so I thought.

Recently, I have had a few bad experiences on myspace. One of which was with a prospective employer. This prospective employer was apparently trying to do a little research on me. Great...research away. I research each company before I go to work for them, so it is only fair that they should be allowed to do the same. However, it shouldn't be on myspace. He talked to my references about my myspace page and has made a decision to offer me a job based on what he saw. Evidently, my myspace page shows energy, adventure, determination, and a fierce competitive edge...perfect characteristics for someone in sales. Those are characteristics I would look for if, I was trying to hire an outside sales person. However, I am rather annoyed that some 40+ year old male has done some research about me on myspace...(for all of you that are reading this saying, "hello, you put it on the internet, what do you expect?" save your time and energy, I have already thought of that, and will address that in a minute).

Back to the point, what gives this person that I have never met the right to read my profile, search through my friends, look at my pictures, and read the comments my friends have made. Okay, so even if he is going to do that, what type of professional than talks about it to one of my references, who happens to be a dear friend that basically told me the conversation verbatim. It was especially interesting to hear the comment about my beer chugging abilities after looking at the picture of me downing a pitcher of beer at the kickball party. You have to go looking for that picture, it isn't on the many page or even the second page. So kudos to the creepy guy.

Of course, I have to do something. I can't just sit back and continue to let the 40+ creeps of the world to continue to look at me. As much as I didn't want to make my page private. I have been given no choice. From now on, only my friends will be allowed to see my page, read my stuff and look at my pictures. Thanks to some random 40+ year old creepy guy, the people that do check up on me that don't think I know :), will no longer be able to do so, unless they break down and ask to be my friend.

Make today fabulous!