Knowlege is Power. No wait a minute, It's Aesthetics!
Okay, So I have been thinking about to what extent is aesthetics power and It is totally evident in virtual communities, such as myspace!
I joined myspace because a friend set up a profile for me so that he could add me as a friend and have a bigger friend ratting. (Lame I know!) Anyway since that day I have barely touched my profile, I have filled in my interests and added one lame photo which features 4 people so you can’t even tell which one is me, if you didn’t know me. So my profile is pretty pathetic – I have no you tube videos, no custom background, no music and as a result I have had no one add me to myspace. No random person wanting to be my virtual friend and no "real friends/acquaintances" adding me… If I want a "real friend/acquaintance" to be my myspace friend, I have to add them… Even my good friend who set up a profile for me to add to his friends doesn’t have me in his ‘top 8’ friends (and I think he even extended it to top 12 and I still didn’t make the cut!) – but he has some random acquaintances in his top friends list. The people in his top friends list are the people with the wicked profiles and heaps of "friends"… I’m a myspace looser! Haha
It’s evident also by other people’s comment about how they joined myspace and got addicted that they spent a fair bit of time on their profile…
Maybe I’m the virtual equivalent of being an ugly person… My profile is not pretty enough for people to add me. My real friends are embarrassed to be my myspace friends… and random people write me off as a boring person because I have no flash gadgets. Aesthetics seems like a superficial kind of thing – hence the saying, it’s what’s on the inside that counts, it should be function and not form that should matter… But really, appearances are everything!
So in a virtual world where we can choose to be what ever we want, play with our identities and be celebrities and super models, why am I the boring/ugly profile girl…Well firstly, I can’t really be bothered figuring out how to add videos and music to my profile.. I tried it once and they said to download an upgrade of flash and I was like… nah… Maybe the future of the virtual is going to be that the cleverest with technology (the computer geeks) are going to be the most popular, beautiful and powerful people and the people like me who can’t be bothered and can’t afford the upgrades become the geeks…
I joined myspace because a friend set up a profile for me so that he could add me as a friend and have a bigger friend ratting. (Lame I know!) Anyway since that day I have barely touched my profile, I have filled in my interests and added one lame photo which features 4 people so you can’t even tell which one is me, if you didn’t know me. So my profile is pretty pathetic – I have no you tube videos, no custom background, no music and as a result I have had no one add me to myspace. No random person wanting to be my virtual friend and no "real friends/acquaintances" adding me… If I want a "real friend/acquaintance" to be my myspace friend, I have to add them… Even my good friend who set up a profile for me to add to his friends doesn’t have me in his ‘top 8’ friends (and I think he even extended it to top 12 and I still didn’t make the cut!) – but he has some random acquaintances in his top friends list. The people in his top friends list are the people with the wicked profiles and heaps of "friends"… I’m a myspace looser! Haha
It’s evident also by other people’s comment about how they joined myspace and got addicted that they spent a fair bit of time on their profile…
Maybe I’m the virtual equivalent of being an ugly person… My profile is not pretty enough for people to add me. My real friends are embarrassed to be my myspace friends… and random people write me off as a boring person because I have no flash gadgets. Aesthetics seems like a superficial kind of thing – hence the saying, it’s what’s on the inside that counts, it should be function and not form that should matter… But really, appearances are everything!
So in a virtual world where we can choose to be what ever we want, play with our identities and be celebrities and super models, why am I the boring/ugly profile girl…Well firstly, I can’t really be bothered figuring out how to add videos and music to my profile.. I tried it once and they said to download an upgrade of flash and I was like… nah… Maybe the future of the virtual is going to be that the cleverest with technology (the computer geeks) are going to be the most popular, beautiful and powerful people and the people like me who can’t be bothered and can’t afford the upgrades become the geeks…
posted by Anonymous at 12:25 pm
2 Comments:
don't worry, i'm nearly exactly the same, although I didn't even know I had a myspace page. but don't worry, it's only on the internet... it's a new natural selection... while they live their lives on there and we live our lives in the real world... lets see where the next generation comes from...
Like you guys I'm not much of a "myspacer" but I'm going to have to disagree a little because my myspace page literally has nothing. I didn't even list my interests and my photo is a 5 second hand drawn picture. I have about 5 friends, who are my real life friends and recently I have had 'add' requests from people (I don't know) around the world. Does myspace have a program that searches for people to add?? because how did they find my profile and Why on earth do they want to add me?- I really don't have much of a profile.
I reckon to make the whole 'top 8' list you have to post comments/send messages pretty frequently...
-Elaine
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