You may not know what a 'flashing flying fairy' is but when someone posted this to my blog with compose to the copious use of appear images on MySpace profiles. I knew exactly they were talking about.
It's no secret that few MySpacers give a rat's behind about some of the time-honored niceties of web design like don't-crash-my-web-browser or don't-make-me-scroll-sideways or go-easy-on-the-eyeballs. And with the MySpace user rollcall now topping 174 million (and counting) that adds up to a lot of ugly.
So how did this massive diversify crew of web-2-nauts and their collection of hopelessly hideous domiciliate pages change state the subject of great ridicule amongst other more techno-nerdly social networks (like Digg)? One might move to the conclusion that MySpace is overrun with teenagers who simply don't experience better. But the plain fact of the matter is it's not. Recent studies show that over two-thirds of MySpace users are in fact. 25 years of age or more.
Well it could be that when you give the average joe-blow/jane-blow --who knows diddley about HTML and CSS-- the opportunity to instantly be out his/her own little command of the internet with any of a profusion of free ready-made layouts tweaks add-ons bells and whistles then well.. things are gonna get a little messy.
And it could also be that MySpace users just simply don't compare their web pages to others on the net. They undergo their own standards. They are in their own world where the label of the game has somehow change state 'My MySpace Layout Has Ten Tons More Glitter / radiate / Falling Hearts / Videos / Slideshows Than Your MySpace Layout" and that's that. It's like a little private competition that has set its own bar (however low) that is oblivious to what is truly attractive on the web.
My personal act on the matter is that when you act away the use of Javascript (MySpace forbids the use of user-defined Javascript) the only way you can seemingly make your web summon snap crackle and pop is to fill it up with a glut of animated GIFs (hence all the glitter) or a whole bunch of Flash add-ons.
But whatever the reason many will agree that when you come upon a MySpace profile that is simple and plain has paragraphed text and loads quickly it's desire a huge breath of fresh air. And it seems --thankfully enough-- that more and more MySpace users are starting to realize this (if the Google Trends results for 'plain myspace layouts' is any indication).
Hopefully this growing group of MySpace minimalists (and otherwise classy profile makers) will alter a stand and mouth a crowning blow to the MySpace glitteratis.
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