As if myspace wasnt bad enough...
 

"Wal-Mart Tries to Be MySpace. Seriously"
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/19/049259.shtml
http://adage.com/article?article_id=110520

Im wondering, most of my friends hate myspace, what do people here think about it? and what do you all think about wal-mart's "the hub"? wtf

just more crap to fill the tubes and make me get slower internets

They're trying to appeal to a demographic to make money. I'm not going to fault them for that.

Are you actually dumb enough to think this slows down your Internet speed, though?

The internets is full of tubes!

A Wal-Mart MySpace-esque site seems as if it might be among the most horrible things of all time.

LMAO! im going to chose not to be offended by that. im guessing you havent heard about this: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499

Walmart + myspace = D:

MySpace and Wikipedia are the best things that have happened to the internet in a long time.

Don't worry, at least Deviantart hasn't become myspace yet.

Well, actually, it's pretty fucking close right now.

Wikipedia is awesome.
I don't care much for myspace, but I have friends who don't use email, so I message them through myspace.

But I'm not on it everyday. Unless I check my email and it says so and so left you a message.

It really doesn't matter. I don't think there'll ever be a mass exodus of people to this new WalSpace. It seems pretty shitty anyway. It'll probably just wither and die next week.

Wikipedia is a good thing. MySpace isn't.

MySpace is just a sad cry for those who can't get a date in real life, so at least there you're able to photoshop an image enough to make you hot, when in reality, you're probably the fattest person in the world.

Sad really.

What's even sadder is all my friends compete to have more friends and comments than their friends... Which I find really pointless... Also, people who can't do HTML for shit. Making their page load slowly as hell... It's not making your MySpace look good at all. What are you thinking?

It makes me sad that a lot of the things to do with this little project are based in Austin or in some way related to Texas. :(

Hands up, you sussed us all, well done my son!

That statement is bollocks. I'm sure for one that I don't use MySpace for dating, and I'm also sure I don't have a single photoshopped picture (apart from a BMX trick sequence pic).

Yeah, I mostly use MySpace for keeping in touch with old high school and community college friends. Of course, I've run into a fair share of people who friend me that I never talked to in high school, much less now, but oh well.

The majority of my 'friends' are bands. A lot of my favorite Norwegian groups have MySpaces, so it's convenient. Not to mention they send out special offers through the bulletins.

I will agree with the statement about HTML, though. 95% of the accounts on there are simply godawful conglomerations of YouTube vids, obnoxious glittery graphics and poorly chosen background images. OH and strikeout text. Can somebody kill it?

I agree. Myspace is, from what I understand, a not very well-coded site, to put it mildly, but to generalize its users like that is simply ridiculous. They can't use HTML for shit, yet are such Photoshop experts that they can make themselves look hot, when in reality they are fat and ugly, etc.? I dunno.

I got addicted with listing stuff on myspace and trying to figure how I could have those sticky backgrounds as well as my favourite non-mainstream music playing, but I just got bored of it and stopped going to it all together.

Walmart Space is pretty corny solely because it's WalMart!
"Hey guys, I'll catch up with you on WalMart space, later."
That makes me shake my head in shame and confusion.

The question in the article "Are these real kids?" could not fit any better.

Yeah, Myspace isn't just for dating. I use it to remain in contact with friends I've known my whole life, and people I meet in general! I will say that it's not a very good dating service (of course in my opinion, internet dating just doesn't work as well as dating someone you actually MET in person anyway). As for profiles, if you know where to look, there are some pretty good layout sites that will get you a pretty cool profile. Add music to it, and you have an awesome looking page! I have a great Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children themed profile, complete with music and everything (check it out in my signature)!

And a Wal-Mart myspace??? That's actually kind of funny... First they have shitty Wal-Mart internet, and now THIS??? What's next, Wal-Mart Cable TV? They need to realize that this is going nowhere, so they need to stop wasting whatever money they are spending on this and get some games that are actually worth buying (I don't know about your local Wal-Mart, but mine is completely OUT of good games, and they have been for a while!)!!! I shudder at the thought of anyone actually joining this pathetic attmept...

MySpace is just an outcry for "Ooh, look at me! I exist! I can pretty webpages and take cool pictures, and I listen to cool music and watch cool movies!" It's a place for someone to tell or show anything and everything to total strangers, quite possibly in an attempt to stop them from being strangers. Some people use this opportunity to make themselves appear better than they are, again to total strangers. Some try to introduce blood, sex, and alcohol into the lives of the immature teenagers roaming the Web. But, there is the minority of people who actually use it for a small amount of good. They use it to tell their friends things important stuff happening. (I thought this is what blogs and journals were for...)

When you think about it Wal-Mart was already like MySpace. They both have two capital letters in their names. They're easy to use. They're fairly straightforward about what can be achieved there. They both look the other way when it come to some shady business. In Wal-Mart you can find movies and music. On MySpace you can find some as well. MySpace is free. Wal-Mart is pretty close to free, unless you want one item (or multiple items adding up to) under twenty dollars, then it's totally free. Wal-Mart has countless customers. MySpace has countless users and viewers. Wal-Mart offers movie previews in the electronics section (assuming your watching the right TV). Some movies and television shows have starting using MySpace to post information about the production.

I'm sure there's more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Whew! I need to take a break...

That's how I feel about it as well. I hate to browse through MySpace I can't stand having the music loading up and there are some rather annoying pop-up ads there as well.

Uh... what?

I prefer Facebook =( Much more tame and clean... Myspace pages always make my eyes bleed. Dark/Black background, black text, etc. I saw folks with, like, 5,000 friends or some crazy shit like that. How the fuck can you have that many. Why do you have that many? Why do you exist?

Such a horrible site. I've yet to even visit the main page. I've been tricked into links to folks' profiles before, I'm afraid...

Myspace isn't too bad as long as you put up just three of four pictures of yourself that you'll never exchange for newer ones, hide your comments and friends so that myspace addicts can't see who you're in cahoots with AND make your profile private so that random people can't add you. Then you're not really advertising yourself.

I stay away from myspace. Here in Washington state there has been a bunch of tempted or actual rapes/aubductions here. I guess I stay away from it because I'm cautious of my safety. Another reason could be the fact that it's overrated. Heck, my mom has a myspace account! I've seen what's there and it just doesn't apeal to me. But then again, that's just me....

But this Wal-mart thing is quite interesting. Wal-mart is truely trying to take over the world in everything. I don't think this will fly though, like many others said, I give it a week, a year at the most. For some reason I can't stop thinking of that one South Park episode right now.

I can't stand MySpace. I like to call it GaySpace. But I have an account there because my cousin, a few of my friends, and some family members in south Florida have one, and I use it to keep in touch with them.

I use myspace all the time, many of my friends use it that live here. Not only is it a good way to keep in touch with people, you can easily show off your favorite bands and pretty much advertise them to whoever has interest in your page to get others into your style also. I don't see why so many people completely HATE myspace, but to each there own.

it's all been said in this thread : some stupid people, shitty layout, music loading automatically, slow, mostly uninteresting content

myspace could be so much better, but i think the admins are reluctant to update their site... you don't change a website that is the most visited in the US