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Myspace

04/08/2006

I've never really looked around myspace before, but heard a lot about it. I somehow managed to get a link to 'the most popular girl on myspace' Tilatequila or something and couldn't resist a look at what would make someone the most popular girl on Myspace. Duh! It's the same thing that makes a girl the 'most popular' anywhere - her willingness to pose next to naked in photos and talk about how she loves being a 'hussler'.

I know a lot of parents are full of concern when they sign on to see what their kid is doing online all day, to find out that they are posting revealing photos of themselves alongside details of how to find them. Man I hate it when communities end up putting girls right back in their place - the sex symbols of society, and when girls actually internalise the whole thing and try to be the most sexy girl in the room. Why would you do that to yourself?

I remember going through school with a bunch of girls who thought the same thing, and week in week out delivered themselves on a plate to whoever wanted a bite. By the ripe old age of 17, they were all depressed, had almost zero self confidence, drank far far too much and had set themselves up for a future where they would never experience a relatinship with someone of the opposite sex where they were valued as a person and not as a sex toy.

I'm sure a lot of cool people have interesting Myspace lives (although how they stand to look at those hideous pages and find their way through the site is a mystery to me - let alone how you're meant to communicate with anyone!), but it's fascinating how blatantly this whole world ties together. The movie and music industries pump out near naked girl after near naked girl, inspiring girls to think that is the opitime of cool, then someone launches a communitiy that enables people to generate so much 'virtual' popularity through acting like the famous girls they model themselves off that they too can launch their own pop/modelling/movie career.

Sorry, I don't have any answers for this one, just blatant horror, which, I know isn't very practical. 

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