Oh my god, I just signed on to MySpace to see what I could find on there. Wow. I was not prepared for what i would find.

See, I make websites sometimes. It’s my business. I try to develop clean looking, professional, easy-to-use, easily upgradeable websites. You can see some of them at Ryanleigh.com (shameless plug, sorry).

So when I stumbled upon MySpace once again (I had seen it back in the day), I was horrified at the amount of nasty background images, neon colors, unreadable text, crazy f’ed up layouts, music that just starts playing, animated GIFs, movies….THAT JUST START PLAYING.

I mean, come on people. Seriously. I understand that 80% of the MySpace population is currently sitting in 5th hour Algebra class writing notes to their boyfriend, but there are some perfectly intelligent college age people on there too. We’re not in the 1990’s anymore. We’re all past the age of Geocities and making our own websites using Frontpage or Word.

Most of this is MySpace’s fault. They allow wayyy too much customization for their own good. Let’s see how it SHOULD be done, shall we?

Google Page Creator

Ahhh. Now that’s better. High levels of customization without needing any prior knowledge of web design. A controlled atmosphere which still allows for a personalized space for all your thoughts and American Idol predictions. “Oh, I love Chris, he’s so dreamy!” See, Google gets it right. Go ahead….snoop around!

But the one thing that will keep everyone from flocking over there (thanks to this entry on Breathingfire.com, of course!) is MySpace’s little ‘friends’ feature. It’s the only thing it has going for it. You search for your friends, and you look at their friends, and their friends, and it’s an endless cascade of torture as you sift through coutnless peoplpe yo udon’t know, only to find one or two people you do.

I found a few people from college and a few from high school, and it was good for a laugh. I even set up a profile on there so I could get the whole experience. I’m now up to 6 friends! Six! It’s amazing.

But i will continue to rant about how horrible of a website it is, and how the high school generation (and a handful of college kids as well) are destroying the internet (and civilization it’s very self) by creating useless, ugly, disgustingly confusing webpages. Stop it! Stop it!!!