{"id":38,"date":"2009-06-15T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-06-04T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T19:04:20","slug":"oh-lord-what-will-they-think-of-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2009\/06\/15\/oh-lord-what-will-they-think-of-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh lord. What will they think of next."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/silvereye2.jpg\" title=\"Far too late for a sanity check, I fear\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>I don&#8217;t go on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/ravenbait\">MySpace<\/a> very often. It might surprise you to know I even have an account. I can&#8217;t for the life of me think why I do. Primarily, I think, it&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a Truck Bar MySpace page, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/alibarbarella\">Alibarbarella<\/a> (the bastard offspring of Pygar and Barbarella, norly) has an account, and it&#8217;s where all the hip bands hang out. Or something.<\/p>\n<p><lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>One of the (many) reasons for this is the amount of advertising. MySpace makes Facebook look positively conservative and even <i>considerate<\/i> in its approach to the commercials that splatter you merely for having the indecency to log in. I&#8217;m not sure if this is a problem common to all social networking sites &mdash; I have a paid account on LJ and have never been anywhere near Bebo &mdash; however MySpace does seem to be a prime example of commercial carpet-bombing.<\/p>\n<p>My purpose for today&#8217;s visit? I was trying to find out what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alienbreed.com\">Ben Astrop<\/a> is up to these days, and had tracked him to a new band, which has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/tsfx\">MySpace page<\/a>, and so I thought I&#8217;d better log in and attempt to add him or whatever it&#8217;s called, just in case. The advert that greeted me today was particularly lolworthy, and so I screencapped it for your amusement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/frog\/graphics\/myspace01.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/frog\/graphics\/myspace02.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"screencap\" title=\"Cropped screencap\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. What next? A singles bar for aliens? Speed-dating for ghouls? Swing parties for goblins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t go on MySpace very often. It might surprise you to know I even have an account. 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