Logging the signs that Murdoch now owns Myspace

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1. Ads have started appearing on your home page.

― moley, Friday, 19 August 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

2. you start getting some short story at the back cover

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

3. new error message = "Fold your hands, child, you blog like a peasant"

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

4. "Tom" replaced by all of the latter day signings to Rawkus.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

5. BA and Hannibal and their shiny chrome guns popping up like CRITICAL ERROR!

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 19 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Note: The sale has not yet been completed. That's not to say that News Corp doesn't have influence already, but the ad on the homepage is hardly something that Fox/Murdoch dreamed up.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

7. myspace sluts now hawking michelle malkin books

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

for some reason i thought this was about stuart murdoch.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 19 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

8. http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1731593,00.html

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 16 March 2006 13:19 (twenty years ago)

"This is a generation, now popularly referred to as the 'MySpace generation', talking to itself in a world without frontiers," he said.

Really? What happened to the Friendster generation? After people jump ship en masse from MySpace to the next big vanity portal, will our generation have to change its name?

Can someone explain the popularity of this site for me? Is there anything at all to do on it other than browse for pages by trashy girls with embedded 50 Cent songs on the front page and pics of their cleavage from various angles?

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

You make it sound like a bit like The Sun. Oh, I see.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Friendster = Alta Vista

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

OKCupid - HotBot

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Friendster = Alta Vista

Ouch. (But so accurate.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I am still on Friendster, but the only messages I get are from would be Russian brides and people trying to sell me cigarettes.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

4. "Tom" replaced by all of the latter day signings to Rawkus.
-- Dom Passantino (juror...)

lol

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I lol'd at that, too.

btw, right after posting what i did, i went to my myspace page and saw a request from an old friend i haven't talked to in years, so i guess i got my answer.

― josh in sf (stfu kthx), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

9. You log in one day and there is an ad featuring breasts thrusting in a loop forever, and the message, 'Do you like women with huge tits?'

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yesh, slightly misguided I think.

― Looking through pattern skies (papa november), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

Time to stop looking at myspace at work - the place is looking more and more like a dating service / porn site. This is just the Australian experience of course. Is the same thing happening in the US?

― Ratty! (Mr Ratty), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't actually seen the ad yet, but lots of bulletins being sent complaining about it I've noticed.

― Looking through pattern skies (papa november), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

A bit rich, considering they pull the plug on users who do the same thing all the time.

― Ratty! (Mr Ratty), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

My band's page has been receiving more and more spam, by which I don't mean from bands, but from scam "concert promoters" (who book you at a shitty bar you could book yourself at anyway and take a huge cut), and people hawking various "services" to bands. I flag all of these fucks and hope they go somewhere bad, though not to hell because that'd be a little strong. It's only spam.

Anyway, I don't think this is the effect of Murdoch so much as the effect of mass phenomenon + media attention = feeding frenzy.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

10. Sean Hannity wants to be your "friend".

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

11. Friends that previously posted juvenile leftist views on the world now blog about why foreigners should go back from where they came from.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

shite wank pop-ups

― beeble (beeble), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

lol ur all on myspace

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

12. new "friends" want to share anti-immigrant joeks

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

13. fair and balanced blogs

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I finally deleted mine and am happy I did.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

"The Lakehouse Soundtrack" wanted to be my friend.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

This is just the Australian experience of course. Is the same thing happening in the US?
-- Ratty! (ratt...), July 5th, 2006.

we've got the tits thing here in the UK too. really tasteful, really responsible - really appropriate for my 10 yr old sister to be logging on to. hurrah for Rupe!

― beeble (beeble), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Re: myspace ads...WTF is a "ZWINKY"?

― you can email me if you wish to challenge the truth (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

All this makes me really grateful for the magic that is adblockr.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

i guess the only real sign i've seen was the fact that the background for the login page is often plastered with adds for whatever hot new movie is coming out, nothing too different otherwise. i wonder what's next though.

― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

The bad news for Murdoch is that it truly confounds him—keeps him up at night. It’s a nuisance he can’t shake. It confounded him when he bought it (the original plan was to buy a gaming company, but then he got talked into MySpace), telling people (anyway, he told me) he was in the “stalking business.” Then, his wife Wendi’s interest in the company meant he had to hear about it all the time, which bored him, and, worse, she was constantly traveling in her various positions with MySpace (Murdoch himself was never sure what she did), leaving him at home with the children (quite a reversal in his historical marital role). Perhaps most unnerving were the constant rumors—which he had to embarrassingly discuss with his PR people—that Wendi was having an affair with DeWolfe.

http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/398/why-myspace-and-the-internet-could-kill-rupert-murdoch.html

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

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