why all the pessimism?
ive had mine foir 2 years, never been spammed, never been criticized (except on forums such as these, and thats only for ahving one) i have 98 friends each whom i know in some way or another
its real easy to talk trash about a site (and yes, with myspace it is very easy to) but you dont have one and i dont see why so much pathetic attention gets involved long enough to debase it no a forum that has nothing to do with it anyway

Pessimism is so much funnier than optimism...
Anyway, it's not that the site is bad, or the users are bad, it's just that what it has become is bad.
It's all superficial stuff - writing biographies about yourself, showing off (be it pictures of your car, or all your friends, or your girlfriend or whatever), insults/flaming (which happens quite a lot), chain-letters and meaningless chatter and gossip...
Not to criticize or anything. It doesn't reflect on you at all, Kal, I'm just saying what my impressions of the site are...