I just stole this outright from my daughter, Sylvia, finding it on her myspace...and I thought it was pretty cute and as I fell down at Back to School night and bustedknee, pride and ankle...I'm too tired to talk about things.
Myspace existentialism.
I've been doing lots of philosophizing lately (like other essentially useless activities, this mostly happens in the summer) and in particular I have been agonizing over the following question, phrased Shakespearean-ly for your amusement:
Myspace: to delete, or not to delete? That is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The pomp and flash of outrageous advertising
Or to take up arms against a sea of whackos
And by so opposing end them. To delete my account--
No more to check my bulletins--and by delete to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand useless ads
That Myspace is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To stop, to delete--
To delete--perchance to write: ay, there's the rub
For without a Myspace what writing may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal blog,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of such a blog.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of chain letters,
The occasional weird message, the dramatic fits,
The pangs of teenage love again and again
The ineffectiveness of moderators, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With one double-click? Who would spam bear,
To sigh and delete under a useless account
But that the dread of lack of Myspace,
The end of social circles, after which
No highschooler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather suffer through those ills we have
Than change to other social networking sites?
Thus Myspace does make cowards of us all
And thus the native hue of disgust
Is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought,
And this enterprise of deletion
With this regard their currents turn awry
And chicken out of deleting--Soft you now,
My dearest friends--Top Eight, in the orisons
Be all my sins remembered.
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I, however, am a bit more indecisive, and thus shall hold on deleting my myspace for the moment. ;) Although keeping it does seem like something of an exercise in futility.
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