11.14.07
22,100,000
A quick Google search on the phrase, ‘MySpace Sucks’ brings up that many responses.
After my first, decidedly only and hopefully last foray into the blighted realm that is MySpace (from here on out referred to as the huge obnoxious pile o’ $#!^!, or HOPS for short)
I will not mention the horrid layout, which even blind people steer clear of, guided by some mysterious ’sense’ that helps them avoid bad things.
I will not touch on the whole ‘friends’ network, which smacks of the same insincerity that most high school students displayed when signing each others yearbooks.
I am refraining from even hinting at how horrible the advertising is, as if the vultures of the advertising world circle above know that there must be the juiciest rotting carcass of the whole advert kingdom rotting below.
No.
My boondoggle is the simple unusability of the bugger. By request, The Director had me post our latest and greatest, “Sovereignty” trailer to the page. No big whoop, I thought. Went and logged on, hit the ‘upload video’ button, typed in a name, description, added some tags and hit the ’send’ button - waited as 96 megs of video goodness went into HOPS land. *Bing!* - done!
Or so I thought.
I went back a bit later to check on how it looked, being the thorough fellow I am, only to discover that it was sitting in a ‘dead’ video pile next to the one video that did work, proclaiming some sort of ‘video error - try again’ -so I did.
SIX MORE TIMES. The I had the insight to try a new format - Quicktime with mp4 compression, which seems to be all the rage these days. Nothing. “Try our new upload tool!” HOPS declares - I do. NOTHING.
I do a quick search for other methods. Perhaps embedding the YouTube video will work. IT DOESN’T.
I need a beer.
Ugh, after yet another futile attempt at using my dowser’s ability to pull information magically out of the aether, I inadvertently searched for for ‘MySpace Sucks’ and got 22 million hits. 22,100,000 to be exact.
Guess this is 22,100,001.
