Usability? Not on MySpace
14. October 2007 – 18:19 byCurrently Facebook is the only social networking site I use regularly - well, more or less. Plaxo as well, though it is more like my personal address book with social networking features which are nice to have. I am also registered with MySpace, though I hardly go there anymore. Never really liked it, though many cool folks I know are there.
Anyway, I am considering deleting my MySpace account now. Why? Quite frankly, it sucks. Big time! I have got a birthday reminder by email telling me that one of my friends was having their birthday this week. But hell, who? It is not mentioned in the email. I had to click through to MySpace.
But did it tell me then? No! After logging in I just saw this page. I had to click once again to get to my profile page. Clicks, clicks, clicks,… Bad usability.
Hey, if web services send emails they should tell me what’s going on. I don’t need those emails when they don’t tell me all details. Really terrible.
MySpace wants me to delete my account it seems.
3 Responses to “Usability? Not on MySpace”
I have never had a reminder via email for a birthday and do not remember turning off any email reminders for MySpace.
I have just deleted an email with the very same thing and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was nothing more than a ‘phishing’ email to get your password.
Birthday reminders come up where your messages/comments link goes. If there was no birthday reminder on there you could have just given your password to someone.
By Julia on Oct 21, 2007
Hm, all links within the email seemed to be legit. I have changed my password now, though. Just to be sure.
By Carsten Pötter on Oct 21, 2007
My space is owned by Rupert Murdock. Need I say more? I check out my kids and their friends. Even the ones set to private, have a list of “friends” and I can have a glimpse of who they are or think the are or want to be. I find some to be thoughtful, most to be putting on an attitude, pretty juvie but then that’s what they are. Nice to see someone be real, good artwork, some honesty but really it is just one big commerical for products and TV anime stereotypes. Probably, people with productive lives have better things to do.
Two comments on ’spying’: if you’re lucky someone spent 18 years of their lives loving, tending, feeding, cleaning, hauling you to doctors and now you’re “ADULTS”! HA! If you come home dead, who do you think is going to bury you? If you come home pregnant, addicted, infected, who do you think will care for you? Comment #2: If I can do it, it can’t be too hard for the predators who have a lot more incentive than me. Yeah, they were just in the news last week.
I bookmarked your site because of its name. What is relevant? Ask a lawyer. Ask a minister. Ask a homeless person. Ask a shaman. Ask a loved one dying of cancer. Ask a marginalized parent or anyone marginalized. Marx called it alienation or the workers. If you’re not going up on the money elevator, you’re marginalized. What is relevant for the ones on the elevator is money and Deep Throat said it best, “Follow the money.” Bush might be the exception, but only because he marinated, deep fat fried and snorted poison on so many brain cells (and he didn’t have that many to spare). Bush went to war because “Sadam tried to kill mah Daddy.” His handlers, Cheny and Rove had other reasons.
Do you think we have replaced 5 minutes of fame with 5 minutes of relevancy?
Here’s to you and yours, wishing you a warm dry bed by a small creek, and your birth right to dark skies filled with the milky way and a billion stars flung across the sky to remind you how relevant you are.
Scars and keloids and bones gound fine by bone alone.
By babzilla on Oct 28, 2007