I refuse to create a MySpace profile
And five other weirdnesses about me (as requested by Kim) - different from those I admitted to last April:
1. Dizzy dreams – My weirdness began early, with monthly sleep interruptions, sensations of being shaken, and all-night vomiting. I’m hoping against hope that my own kids don’t inherit this affliction.
2. I worked as a collections agent for a few months. Weirdest time of my life.
3. Gwyneth Paltrow is the only celebrity with whom I’ve exchanged two words, and it was at the Denver Children’s Museum where I met her.
4. I created a crime scene in my own bathtub.
5. Among all of my other attempts to inflame the blogosphere, my criticism of Steve Irwin drew the most ire. I wrote and posted that entry in fifteen minutes one morning, never expecting such backlash.
6. To elaborate on the title weirdness…You’d think that I’d want to create a profile, so that I could encourage more people to visit all the sites where I write. But I find MySpace to be inherently creepy, even the pages that are tastefully done. It seems so voyeuristic. Granted, I divulge personal information here, but I think carefully about it before doing so, and I have access to detailed stats which show me exactly where visitors come from and what they view. Only rarely have I been creeped out by what I find.
That said, I think MySpace is a great resource for employers. Amalah checked the MySpace profile of her nanny. The director of my girls’ day care checked the MySpace profiles of her assistant director applicants. I wonder how many HR departments are doing the same. It’s public information and can shed a lot of light on what a person is really like behind the scenes.
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There you have it – all my weirdnesses. Nothing else weird about me. The rest of me is completely normal. Achingly boring. Thoroughly mainstream.
Heh.
January 12th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I have a myspace page (www.myspace.com/iwantcheesecake) and love it…I’ve talked to people I haven’t seen in 15 years because of it. Create one. And then be my friend.
And…weird about your dizzy dreams. I get those sometimes, but during the day. I’ll be sitting there and then it feels and looks like I’m being shaken back and forth…and I can’t make it stop. I have to close my eyes for awhile or get up and walk around for it to go away. Odd.
Oh, and because this comment isn’t long enough…you KNOW how glad I am that you stopped being a collector. There are so many bad ones! *chants* FDCPA! FDCPA!
January 12th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I’m with you, Myspace creeps me out. I’ve been there once and I had to take a shower immediately after. And that was after the tame sites.
January 12th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
It’s a little scary that I immediately remembered all of the posts to which you referred. I feel a little stalkerish RIGHT NOW.
January 12th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
These comments are cracking me up even more than your weird stuff. Although the sleep thing is pretty bizarre.
January 12th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I resisted Myspace for a very long time, partly because I didn’t know how I might be able to make my page look something better than hideous. But then a couple of musicians I know invited me to their pages and I wanted to be nosy and look at their photos … for which I needed an account. So there I am at http://www.myspace.com/sarahdoow … not really doing much
January 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
I did make a myspace account once, and within minutes I got several emails asking me to add them because I was “so hot”. I should note here that I never posted my photo, so they would have no way to know how “hot” I actually was. Since then, I have been scared of it!
January 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Someone from Oprah.Com visited my site once. That was pretty kewl!
January 12th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
I think we might be officially too old [shudder] for myspace.
January 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I run a site where one can use our editors to create more attractive (theoretically…we can’t account for someone’s bad taste) MySpace profiles but, ironically, I don’t even have one of my own. My husband has a profile for his musical entity and he’s tried to get me to set one up but I refuse.
January 12th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I’m so with you. I’ll bear my soul on a blog but won’t step into MySpace. Must be a psychographic thing. Like people who will drive Suburbans but won’t go anywhere near a minivan.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Amen on the mySpace gig. I check the MySpace of my students and have the time I’m completely repulsed simply by the background and music selection.
We’ll say a blog is a more “professional.” :: cough :: Yea. We’ll say that (says the girl blogging about her hayhay)
January 13th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Having pre-teens (one will be a teen this year, YIKES!), I would like to know about Myspace but I sure don’t want a page. I agree, there is just something creepy about it.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I don’t get the MySpace thing either, but then, I’m ‘old’.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:00 am
when i think of myspace, i think of high school vermin. not my style, dude.