about it isn't the Drama- I've been on LiveJournal for four years and there's even more opportunity for drama there; I don't enjoy it but ... I guess I haven't really "registered" that on MySpace yet
(except for those beyond-silly "repost this or you're a fake friend so I'll drop you" bulletins. But then LJ has its own versions of that lemming... ah, you've got me being unfair to the noble lemming now. BLEAH.)
Getting to the point for once in my life...
It's the number of commercial profiles, of businesses in which I have no interest which pretend to be something else in order to get on my list on MySpace. I often humor them- unlike on LJ, just being a friend doesn't really get one that much preferment site-wise unless you're on my preferred list too and can read my interesting blog posts there- but I also get a bit impatient with people who communicate only by broad-band bulletin. (And in some cases have redirect Flash on their pages, and have, and get complimented for, copyrighted photos from others' websites, but eh...)
There's been a little of that here... one person came in with a photo I recognized, asking me to subscribe to a service and send her money if I liked it, and then I realized where I knew the photo from... - (that she be allowed to explain-- maybe it's the same person- is one reason why this post is public on principle.) And months ago an amazingly inept bank-transfer-scammer asked me to head over to Yahoo!m to chat, and immediately moved the conversation in that direction- no cover story, no nuffin. But so far, not much.
(That the Wikipedia article on Lost Cherry was podded - deleted without protest - probably explains it; low publicity comparatively, fewer spammers and scammers, despite all the promotion done by others. It could be undeleted I suspect-- by everything I know as a low-level admin there - and if it needs work, improvement, total reshaping, given that too- but there was no protest after a few days to the deletion request so there was no process, just deletion, by the rules.)
