A few months ago I joined the bandwagon of myspace.com. I really don't get what the hype is all about but I guess if you were in a band or were marketing some type of product it would be pretty useful. To me it's pretty junior high and is akin to passing notes in the hallway or signing someones year book over and over again. I probably get on there every two weeks or so. Recently they have added huge adds that come up with opening page that say they are an on-line dating service, but based on the pictures, the way the advertising is phrased, and how the girls are posed it seems less like a dating service and more like a sex service. These adds are pretty over the top.
Just yesterday I got a message from "Ariel" inviting me to come meet her on her webcam that was just a click away. I'm pretty sure that she didn't want to just show me the nice floral wallpaper in her new apartment. I know that most free email accounts such as hotmail and yahoo are inundated with porn spam but for some reason myspace.com seems much more personal and thus it was more offensive to me to recieve this kind of solicitation.
It's pretty scary that myspace.com is such a dominate internet force these days and along with it all this blatant sex advertising is going on. I would encourage Christians who have a myspace page to forfeit its use. Seems that the depth of it's sexual darkness is something that we should definitely be avoiding.
2 comments:
I can't stand myspace either. I'm a youth director at our church and most of them don't know what they are getting sucked into when they join.
I'm with you,
Doug
I got on myspace because many of the youth in my church were on it and as a former youth worker, I was curious. In addition to the obscene invitations and pages, the ads are horrible. So even if you and your "friends" are keeping it clean, myspace advertisers keep it nice and dirty.
Awesome blog by the way!!
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