Andy Chase

Charlie Brooker asks, Supposing... I'm too old for MySpace. It is for many of the reasons he mentions that I keep thinking about deleting my MySpace account altogether.

MySpace is ugly, it's slow, and it's got crappy interaction. (I love following a link from a notification email, and getting bounced to a page that says "You have to log in to do that!", and then having the system lose track of what I was trying to do after I log in.) Even the "friends list" concept seems pretty much meaningless to me, since I'm always getting requests from total strangers who want to add me as a friend. To someone who doesn't care about impressing other MySpace users with how many friends are on my list, this is annoying.

I'm on the verge of splitting off a personal web site for all of my music related material; mp3s, music-related blather, photos, tablature, et cetera... I expect what I'll end up doing is keeping the MySpace page around as a landing spot, and then funnel people who are actually interested over to my site, where I can craft the appearance, performance and interaction into something that doesn't make me want to scrape my retina off with a car key (to quote Mr. Brooker).