My thirteen-year-old daughter thinks that anyone who uses MySpace and who is over 25 is a pervert

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Here on the North/South Carolina border, I have been fortunate enough to see "news" every few weeks for most of this year about the dangerous people lurking on MySpace. Is said 13-year-old's comment common knowledge, or has the media gotten to her?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

What's wrong with being a pervert?

Just because you're a pervert doesn't make you dangerous. I object to this brainwashing.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Ask her if she thinks that the age will go up as the userbase ages.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Personally, being well over 25. I've had my own web presences and communities around for long enough that MySpace seems pretty pointless. So it also seemed pretty Johnny-come-lately to me (steps down from blogspot!), but sometimes, lately, I get this twinge of being the only one not at the party.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Kate, you have the luxury of being a woman. Single men (in the US, anyway) have no such luxury. I don't even talk to kids anymore.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Just because you're a pervert doesn't make you dangerous. I object to this brainwashing.

And hurrah to that :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

OK, maybe you have a point with the gender/power dynamics, but this idea that anyone who is sexually deviant (I mean, that encompasses a lot) is somehow DANGEROUS - pervert encompasses a lot of things, not just rapists, child molestors, people who eat other people's penises, etc.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

So you think anyone over 25 on myspace is a sexual deviant, then?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

xpost It is really crude in both features, reliability and implementation compared to .... pretty much everything else.

Kate is OTM, FURRY PORN HURTS NO ONE BUT THE VIEWER!

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Mitya if you and I form a band now we can be on MySpace with 'legitimacy'.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I imagine a considerable number of people using MySpace who are UNDER 25 are perverts too.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

And also, no, I don't think that anyone over the age of 25 on MySpace is sexually deviant, either. But then again, I object to anyone UNDER the age of 25 on the interweb, fullstop. Who the heck let all these children into *our* playground? I mean, it went from being the September That Never Ended to Kindergarten Playgroup.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Kate, I am under 25 and was online BEFORE the September that never ended. (I hung out with the dude who coined that phrase this weekend [he is a ilxor!]) :((((

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I turn 25 today, I'll log into myspace after work and see if I have a giant PERVERT flag in my profile now.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Furry porn hurts us all, Jon.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://m.pimpmyspace.org/online/7e3331e16d19070e3c3ac255d4c2278d.gif

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

My response to my friend who reported this about her daughter, was that it's normal for the 'younger generation' to think they discovered everything and the world is basically created for them (including MySpace). They're naturally going to find it incomprehensible when people of an older generation with whom they have nothing in common are using the same tools (probably in a different way but they can't conceive of that).

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

= ALL BANDS ARE PERVERTS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

side question: with people now being less shocked than ever by stuff (supposedly), what actually, specifically, constitutues 'being a pervert' or 'sexual deviant' these days?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

(FWIW, I am taking the piss out of the sorts of things my Dad used to say when I got online and started hogging his precious bandwidth - which was precious indeed when a baud rate of 2400 was considered fast.)

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

(I hung out with the dude who coined that phrase this weekend [he is a ilxor!]) :((((

Raggett?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

My 16 year-old cousin found me on MySpace and messaged me with the rather insulting "Wow, you really can find *anyone* on here." But he's a really nice lad and my cousin and I love him, so I can forgive the "Are you really 27?!!" comment. I mean why would I add years on? To seduce older men without them feeling as perverts?

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

maybe he thought you were older? (sorry)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Archel

Sorry for swiping your anecdote - didn't want to clutter up the other thread with this.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Mitya's 13-yr old has the same perspective as my 31-yr-old boyfriend.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

(I hung out with the dude who coined that phrase this weekend [he is a ilxor!]) :((((

Raggett?

d4v3 4t "see see eh" dot org

He met Raggett though. They talked about Russian Sci Fi very very quickly.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)

xpost:

Not actually my daughter -- a friend of Archel's. I should've put quotes in.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone actually know what the demographics of myspace users are?

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

He met Raggett though. They talked about Russian Sci Fi very very quickly.

Yup. Great guy!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Your daughter is merely engaging in normal human fallibiity along lines so commonplace as to be unremarkable. She is generalizing upon insufficient data and therefore drawing invalid conclusions.

We seem to be wired for this fallacy; it has survival value in all those urgent situations where one cannot wait for sufficient data to emerge. She is too young to make fine distinctions between those situations when it pays to apply this urge to approximate and those when it leads to stupidity.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

that sounds like perv-talk to me...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

this vaguely reminds me of a guy in his early 20s who thought it was weird that a "middle-aged white guy" like myself listened to gangsta rap. i told him that i'm 4 years younger than dr. dre and the same age as ice cube, jay-z and ghostface killah, so the real question is what a kid like him is doing listening to such a bunch of old farts.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

did he cry?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i think he went back to his jimi hendrix records or something.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

a gentle weep perhaps

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Great response, although you've skipped over the racial aspect of it.

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

wtf is "September That Never Ended"?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

funny that... (xpost)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

ASK GOOGLE GAYWAD CANADIAN XPOST

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

when a huge bunch of AOL laym0rz (tm) got online & changed the character of the internet forever. Kind of like old-ilx vs nu-ilx writ large(ish)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

lol @ google

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

i really loved their first record but after that...

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Great response, although you've skipped over the racial aspect of it.

well that wasn't so much his point since he's white too. but i've had that conversation with people too, usually along the lines of, "uh, you know all those marvin gaye and aretha franklin and prince cds you have?"

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I think when MySpace users turn 25 they should shuffle off to the old folks community (ie Friendster).

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

WTF IS GOOGLE?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm 31 and I use it. Fuck the youth!

(I don't mean literally, obv.)

― mei (mei), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Yeah okay, my 21-yr old brother found me on MySpace (or maybe vice versa) and was SURPRISED by that. Stupid boyo, I've been on there longer than ANY of my siblings. Also: ON THIS EARTH. Oldest always trumps!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:14 (twenty years ago)

To me, MySpace is basically like a version of Friendster that actually succeeded, but when I mentioned this to my 16-to-18-year-old cousins, I was met with blank stares: though they all have MySpace profiles, they'd never even heard of Friendster. (Which I guess proves my point.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Stupid boyo, I've been on there longer than ANY of my siblings. Also: ON THIS EARTH.

Laurel = "Tom"?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

What, the WDYLLs didn't give it away?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

I actaully assumed the "September That Never Ended" was some ilxor term. Checking with wikipedia isn't exactly the first thing I go out and do whenever a wrinklepaws has me scratching my head!

mega xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't find my cousins on it. Just hoochies with their names. :((((

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Bummer: my super-hot cousin isn't on there, but her less hot sister is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Now that is perverted.

― Henrietta Leavitt and the Cepheid Variables (kate), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm 26 and I don't even know what exactly MySpace is, does that make me healthy?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas, you don't know anything.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah i think most of my friends (im 26) on myspace have user ID's in the first couple million, out of 75,000,000 accounts. rosemary is like 15,000 something. i'd guess most of the 16 year olds have userIDs in the 20-30-40+ million range?

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

The media has told me that just having a myspace account makes a woman 13% less virgin than she was before. This is probably where the confusion comes from.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

What's a "13% less virgin"? Earholes?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, is there a way to find out what number of acount you have?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

It's just your Myspace ID number, innit? Like go to View Profile, and it's the number at the end of the URL. Mine's 24-million-something. I was resistant for a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

"I've been a pervert longer than you."

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Fascinating.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

i'm in the 70k's - i guess i have been a pervert longer than most people, too.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

i knew myspace had become lame when i found some of my co-workers on it

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I still don't have as many MySpace friends as Friendster friends, though. And some of my MySpace friends are dubious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

i knew myspace had become lame when i found some of my co-workers on it

OTM

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

I can't even look at myspace. Is there a single page on the whole thing that's not uglier than a clogged toilet?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:32 (twenty years ago)

content is king, baby.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what it would do myspace if the homepage had a message from the owner?

http://www.nndb.com/people/420/000023351/murdoch-Img211954581.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

"I'm also a client"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 27 April 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

"shaved me so close I bought the company"

― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

At least the 25+ crowd on MySpace can generally spell.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:02 (twenty years ago)

otm

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

What happened with Friendster? Is it now considered pretty much dead? WXhy is that?

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Friday, 28 April 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

The 13 year old is not absolutely correct.
God's 11th commandment states:
Thou shall not be on MYSPACE if you have had your bar/bat mitzvah.

― X FAX, Friday, 28 April 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Friendster suffered heart failure brought on by a high-fad diet, I think.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Thou shall not be on MYSPACE if you have had your bar/bat mitzvah.

Whew. I'm safe, then.

(Do First Communions count?)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

At least the 25+ crowd on MySpace can generally spell.

Wurd, biootchhh!

― someone let this mitya out! (mitya), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

BUTTOCKSSSSSSSSSS (2 new answers, last at 6:20 pm)
My thirteen-year-old daughter thinks that anyone who uses MySpace and who is over 25 is a pervert (79 new answers, last at 6:16 pm)

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 28 April 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

You are 25 and have a 13 year old daughter?

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 28 April 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

This seems as good a place to ask as any, why is it that EVERY page I've ever visited on MySpace has a box at the top that reads "[Username] is in your extended network"?
I don't even have a myspace account, so it doesn't make much sense.

I hate it when people link me to MySpace pages, as I have to make sure my speakers are turned off, otherwise I'll be blasted away with music. I hate music.

― Øystein who hates .* (Øystein), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

i knew myspace had become lame when i found some of my co-workers on it
OTM
-- Pleasant Plains /// (pleasant.plain...), April 27th, 2006 11:29 AM. (Pleasant Plains ///)

that dude's comments are the most AOL dorkass myspace glittery image crap shit i've ever seen

― jaxontologist (jaxon), Saturday, 29 April 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

otm

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:50 (twenty years ago)

Everyone's in your extended network because of Tom, I think.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

MySpace is 100% fag.

― milo freeman's close friend, Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:39 (twenty years ago)

This '13' year old 'daughter', does she have a suspiciously deep voice and an encyclopaedic knowledge of 80s sci-fi TV shows?

― mei (mei), Saturday, 29 April 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

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