I’ve had a MySpace account for a little while now. Actually, I was one of the late-comers. The only reason I signed up for an account was because a friend of mine started a blog and I wanted to post replies. However, there are some really annoying things about MySpace.

First and foremost, the navigation leaves MUCH to be desired. Clicking back and forth, not being returned to the correct page after login, ambiguous layout. Also, I find it annoying when people change their background to some weird image, play music, and have other crap on the page. When I see stuff like this, I reach an upchuck factor of around 9.95.

I also find it difficult to find people. I wish they had more search options.

I noticed that posting comments doesn’t seem to work in Firefox (at least for me). This is especially odd since they make use of Kevin Roth’s Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor. I sure with they’d fix that, or perhaps it’s just me and my browser. Does it work for anyone else in Firefox?

Finally, there are some really annoying people on MySpace, and it seems most people are there to get laid by complete strangers. I know you can block them, but there is still a lot of cruft on there.

I do think it’s an interesting implementation of social networking (minus the orgy offers). I think with some work and a good UI designer, it could be better (then again, I’ve never sold anything for $580 million, so who am I to talk). I mostly use it to keep in touch with friends who post to it.

I’ve never tried Facebook, although I do finally have a University e-mail account again. Something tells me I’d be wasting my time, and I don’t like how elitist they are about requiring a school account to sign up. Maybe some day.