Remember when the internet was kind of cool? No? Me neither. So why am I here? Oh yeah, another misanthropic rant.

Just when I thought the internet had reached its apex of banality, I'm proven wrong. In fact, I'm even wrong-er than usual. Aside from this web page, what else is there really? There's like... Amazon, some site about poodles, a whole lot of porn, and this douchebag's site on "myspace". So lets discuss...

I found that site randomly. And yet it is a fine example of everything that is wrong with the internet. This individual states that "I like to laugh at and with people. I like to have fun and drink some alcohol." Sounds like a real character, eh? Then he states "That's all for now." as if there is some more to come, but just not now. Fortunately sites like myspace exist to expose such profundity to the world.

Hey, look he has a lot of cutie friends doesn't he? Well, I was enjoying The Smiths until I clicked on one of them and the sound of some lonely jerk plunking away on his guitar took over from Morrissey. After the first line of the song, I quickly clicked away from the page. Too bad, she probably had the cure for pain.

And that is what is has come to. Hosting pages like "Myspace" have millions of users with their own "pages". I assume they provide some editing capabilities, but it looks like everyone does the same things: puts a huge picture in the background, plays a terrible song, takes a picture of themselves from the side, and chooses the worst possible and most unreadable font available. Myspace has taken the internet back to 1996. I wonder how many dancing jesus pics are lurking on Myspace pages.

These sites purport to serve some purpose. If I'm not mistaken, the point is to "network". Now, why on EARTH junior high school kids need to network is beyond me. No good can come of it. Isn't going to school enough? Clearly not. I have to assume that all of the jerks in school have pages and all of their friends have pages and they are all "friends" of each other and they all cross post to each other's pages. It seems like some sort of reverse mutually assured destruction among the teen set. No self-respecting non-cool kid would have one of these myspace things. No, they would have a "blog" filled with page after page of myopic senselessness about "life" and "religion". Although, apparently myspace has been a boon for pedophiles. I wonder why.

Oh, this is success. So now, in addition to stupid blogs (which was bad enough), and all of the porn and spam, we now have this junk. Myspace isn't the only one either - but its the most popular. Its getting to the point where I wish terrorists would fly a plane into the whole internet. Sure, I wouldn't have this site anymore, but I could live without it in just as much obscurity. I would lose a couple things I enjoy but sending letters would be okay too. When is the last time you received a letter from a real person?

I know that someday I'm going to quit. I'll sign-off and pretend the internet doesn't exist. The damn internet has brought me closer to things I like and things I hate. At the moment, I think I'd rather have to work for it a little harder.