MySpace messaging problems!
Cash would have totally hated MySpace.
I get a pretty steady stream of hits and comments on my posts about MySpace errors from teh Goggles and other Interwebs search bots. In fact, they’re my most popular content. A lot of people have been complaining about not being able to send messages over a long period of time, and now I’m experiencing something similar.
I honestly don’t send a lot of messages on MySpace anymore, but there are a couple few people I talk with regularly (read: cybersex). For the past five days or so, messages to a certain someone have vanished into thin air, not even giving me the famous error message or anything. Just nothing in the Sent folder.
The workaround seems to be to copy your message before sending, then go back and paste your message into a new message and send again. The second-send seems to work for whatever reason.
I tend to take my sweet ass time composing messages, so maybe something is timing-out (perhaps a session thingy, if you’re Geek). I don’t know.
But this is one of the reasons why I’m still predicting MySpace’s imminent death. With all the social networking competition, something so poorly engineered and as fun to use as a tax form can’t last. People will discover that there are progressive, friendly products out there (like Facebook), and find themselves subconsciously gravitating toward them, until a critical mass is reached and the scales tip.
Has anyone checked out Ning, by the way?
March 14th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
MySpace is broken. Why am I not surprised?
P.S. Facebook is cool.
March 15th, 2007 at 11:00 am
No, facebook is not cool. It’s just as fu*king bad. Maybe more user friendly, but just as mind numbing and horrid. Social networking sites have become the as*hole of the internet. Go somewhere, do something, make friends, have conversations. It’s to the point where people have completely different personalities on the internet. In real life you could be a shut in whose sole purpose in life is to become a lvl. 4 dragon sage and eat cold spaghetti O’s out of the can. But on MySpace you’re a mix between James Dean and Mr. T, with numerous surveys to prove it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a new Tilla Tequila song to download…
March 15th, 2007 at 11:09 am
‘Blat, it sounds like you’re critiquing social networking as a whole. And I’ll agree that the current model is rather f*ucked. To paraphrase an engineer friend of mine, you have all these people coming together and accomplishing absolutely nothing - what a complete waste of power.
March 16th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Exactly! If people actually had something to say, or something to contribute to society it may be a different story. But right now you have millions of people writing blogs about their cat going to the vet, posting pictures of themselves drunk at clubs, describing themselves in lengthy (and often contradictory) diatribes, and making sure the world knows just how much they “love to party”. Real constructive you narcisistic f*cks. Nobody cares about your f*cking blogs and the inane babblings about your daily life or your current mood. Nobody is impressed by your 4 pages of drunken pictures and lengthy description of just how complex you are, and those who actually know you only laugh about the bullsh*t you come up with. Not to mention EVERYONE likes to party, that’s what people do when they are happy. If you don’t like to party something is wrong with you. Your apparent “love” for partying is assumed, let it go. That’s been my point all along. DO SOMETHING. At least provide something of use or interest, or quit clogging up cyberspace with your happy horse sh*t. Seriously, these social networking sites are being used as a place to look cool for people who are already your friends, or to message any and every hot girl within a 50 mile radius about how “hot” they are. They can’t even be used for networking, or spreading information because the sites are clogged up with too much garbage. The users of these sites are so full of sh*t that they feel compelled to fill the sites with sh*t. MySpace is a true example of an Idiocracy (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, see the movie). At first it was a brilliant way to network, spread news, and even meet people. Now look at it. $50 says your account has been hacked at least once, your bulletin board is full of bullsh*t survey’s and CONSTANT band promotions, and you get at least 1 friend request per day from a band you don’t care about or a good looking girl/guy that doesn’t really exist.
But yeah, I’m definitely criticizing. Not necissarily social networking in itself, but rather the current state of it on the internet. I almost doubt sites like MySpace or Facebook can or will ever exist without the users themselves completely ruining them.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Well at the moment I keep getting the message about this function being disabled….when I try to log in.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Doctor: I think that scoial networking, in theory is a good idea. Like communism and world peace. It just turns out that most Americans, sadly, are stupid, and you can’t live a great social ideal when you’re stupid. America is a middle class nation, to quote the Great Tyler Durden “we were all raised to believe we were going to rock stars and movie stars and millionaires…” but really, what happens. We get to high school, play sports, assume we’ll get into college, some of us do, some of us get **** marketing degrees in between the drunken partying, and then we go, get marryed and entrench in vinyl sided suburbia. Myspace is an allegory for a much larger problem in America. The problem (as Rosenblat said) of Idiocracy. If we’re all raised to the standards of the lowest common denominator (because ****, the schools sure aren’t challenging us), then we all become that lowest common denominator. And then we have kids who are even stupider, and eventually, the dumbest **** of today, will be 100 times smarter than the ***** of the future. Myspace is just a way of seeing how pathetic and servile we really are. We’re like cows led to the slaughter, marketed to hell, and manipulated by the ads and the celebrities and the politicians. Corporations own our minds, and they want our meat to make them money. **** Myspace. **** corporations. **** Bush, **** Gore. **** the war. **** the Senate. **** the establishment that wants us to rot for their profit.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I may just have to credit your statement (above) as the single most intelligent thing said on this forum. Ever.
Communism was a good example. Think about it. Myspace was a good concept, an idea shared by everyone and becoming widely accepted. It was even beneficial to a degree. Then, as history would dictate, some person/corporation HAD to take control because they saw it flourishing (and therefore saw how they could profit). Now they dictate what we see on MySpace, how it’s used, how it’s marketed, and they exploited the benefits of the social networking concept until it was no longer beneficial. There is never a common wealth or a free flow of knowledge. It will ALWAYS eventually get over run by what is force fed to us by those in power. The kicker is that they only maintain that power because we willingly buy into what they force on us.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Damn, look at all the deep thought taking place here. Knock that **** off!
I’d just like to point to Craigslist and Google as examples, in my mind anyway, of companies that haven’t sold out their core ideals to make a buck. I can’t point to many others, though.
Frowny face.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
http://www.liberalsmustdie.com/CommentView,guid,f0c460dd-592c-400c-bdb2-b401942cd076.aspx#commentstart
MCCAIN’S MYSPACE HACKED!
RUSSELL HATE ***** LIBERALS!!
RUSSELL RIP HILLARY CLINTON’S HEAD OFF!!!
REEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHH!!!!!
April 11th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Russell spell Russel’s own name wrong.
Great, now Hilary Clinton has gone and upset Russel. Give him a candy and he’ll calm down. Not too much though, he will be up all night smashing and stomping loudly. That’s Russel’s forte.
In fact, I hear Hilary Clinton has a butterscotch in her pocket that she refuses to share with you Russel. BREAK HER!
April 15th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
You are all gay. Die in hell.
April 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I just realized I misspelled social, and then recieved a complement. Score. But has anyone seen Tom’s little message?
“Hey everybody, we just launched another program to stop dirty spammers from hasseling you. When you input a link in myspace it may be converted to a redirect link. You’ll start seeing them around the site. They look like this: msplinks.com/adf9sd9f. These links are legit and we are creating them. They are not viruses or whatever else your conspiracy theorist friends told you. They still point to their original url, but let us easily turn off links to spam, phishing, or virus sites. booyah!”
It’s nice how Tom insults your conspiracy theorist friends as well as mentioning “those dirty spammers”. Tom, you are the dirtiest spammer of them all…how ironic.
May 4th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I check this site now once a month, and every month it dissapoints me now
May 12th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Yes, I agree, it’s disappointing. I want more reviews of terrible myspace profiles… although I understand it’s getting hard to define which profiles truly are bad.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
You’re right ‘Blat. Facebook is NOT cool.
It sucks.
The honeymoon is over.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 am
hahahahahaa Dr. Rosenblat wat u posted. soo true lol its funny
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Lolololololol.
Ugh. Lowest common denominators.
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
Hello
Anyone spotted that the new Music Player on MySpace seems to contain a tiny bug or 2 …
…thousand !!!
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 am
Hello
Anyone spotted that the new Music Player on MySpace seems to contain a tiny bug or 2 …
…thousand !!!
April 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
COMPOSE MESSAGE FEATURES BROKEN ( Both New features & Old-Important ones )
1] ok on a different account i tried, i cant even use the message to multiple friends option..
2] on this one it works but not really (pops up with some friends and wont allow several others to be browsed or typed)
i have tried multiple times to compose a message to some of my friends which dont popup on the list when i type it in
for example: froy user id 321509376
i try both typing froy
and 321509376
and it doesnt work at all (they arent recognized in the TO field)) however when i go to their page and click on message
it pops up fine
review: alot of my friends i cant send to using their name or id # in the TO field when in COMPOSE but, i can send to them if i click MESSAGE on their page or Send Message on their id
a fix would be nice or if i should give up on using the compose menu entirely itd be nice to know