Plain Myspace Layouts vs. The Flashing Flying Fairies from Hell
You might not know what a 'flashing flying fairy' is but when somebody posted this to my weblog with reference to the copious use of glitter photos on Myspace profiles, I knew specifically they had been talking about.
It's no secret that handful of MySpacers give a rat's behind about some of the time-honored niceties of net style like don't-crash-my-net-browser or don't-make-me-scroll-sideways or go-effortless-on-the-eyeballs. And with the Myspace consumer rollcall now topping 174 million (and counting), that adds up to a whole lot of unsightly.
So how did this enormous motley crew of internet-2-nauts and their collection of hopelessly hideous residence pages turn out to be the topic of fantastic ridicule amongst other a lot more techno-nerdly social networks (like Digg)? 1 may leap to the conclusion that Myspace.com is overrun with teenagers who basically don't know much better. But the basic truth of the matter is, it's not. Current studies show that over two-thirds of Myspace customers are, in truth, 25 years of age or more.
So what's the genuine cause?
Nicely it could be that when you give the regular joe-blow/jane-blow --who understands diddley about HTML and CSS-- the chance to instantaneously deck out his/her personal small corner of the internet with any of a profusion of free of charge all set-manufactured layouts, tweaks, increase-ons, bells and whistles then effectively... items are gonna get a small messy.
And it could also be that Myspace.com customers just merely don't evaluate their net webpages to other individuals on the net. They have their very own standards. They are in their personal globe where the title of the sport has somehow grow to be 'My Myspace.com Layout Has Ten Tons Much more Glitter / Flash / Falling Hearts / Movies / Slideshows Than Your Myspace.com Layout" and that's that. It's like a tiny private competitors that has set its personal bar (nevertheless very low) that is oblivious to what is genuinely beautiful on the net.
My individual take on the issue is that when you require absent the use of Javascript (Myspace forbids the use of user-defined Javascript), the only way you can seemingly make your internet web page snap, crackle and pop is to load it up with a glut of animated GIFs (hence all the glitter) or a entire bunch of Flash add-ons.
But whatever the purpose, quite a few will agree that when you come upon a Myspace profile that is straightforward and basic, has paragraphed text and loads rapidly, it's like a large breath of fresh new air. And it appears --thankfully sufficient-- that a lot more and much more Myspace.com users are starting to realize this (if the Google Trends outcomes for 'plain myspace.com layouts' is any indication).
Hopefully, this rising group of Myspace.com minimalists (and otherwise elegant profile makers) will make a stand and provide a crowning blow to the Myspace.com glitteratis.
So to all the flashing flying fairies: Get ready to sing your swan song.
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