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Monday night I happen to catch a short news item on CNN regarding everybody’s favorite website to bash, MySpace.com. Apparently, some 30-odd deathrow inmates in Texas have MySpace pages set up. Now, obviously the inmates themselves are not running these pages, the pages are maintained by family and/or friends. They include the usual topics of likes and dislikes, images and photos and whathave you. According to CNN, none of the pages make any reference at all that these people committed terrible crimes nor is there any show of remorse. Victims advocates are crying foul with MySpace.

Man, MySpace just can’t catch a break. If it’s not your average run-o-the-mill weirdo it’s pedophiles praying on young people and now, deathrow inmates setting up shop! Then you got the really weird people, like me and Brian who have MySpace pages. Damn, it’s a scary world out there!!

This actually isn’t my first commentary about MySpace. I have a blog entry that’s been sitting in drafts for several weeks now having to do with MySpace and the teen element. Or rather the teen lament. My local newspaper has a segment they run weekly called “Teen Life” and a month or so ago they showcased some MySpace postings of local teenagers (names and identities withheld to protect the innocent). The postings highlighted teen angst and rebellion. It was the kind of stuff that I thought would prompt outraged letters to the editor, where people would comment that the postings not only boded bad for MySpace, they didn’t bode well for the future generation of MyState. The subsequent letters to the editor more or less blasted the newspaper for being yet another mass media outlet taking part in the seemingly vogue bashing of MySpace. 

I’d post my blog entry but it really loses it’s punch without the examples from the article. My copy of the paper has long since gone to recycling, and the paper hasn’t updated the “Teen Life” archive on their website since June.

So not only does MySpace not get any satisfaction….neither can I!