MySpace
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:49 pm
So there's a movement, upon an email list that I frequently frequent, bitching about myspace. I can understand this. I hate myspace. The reasons for its sucking are many and varried, and I've probably listed them out before on this forum somewhere, probably more than once. Bitching is fine. It is our God-given AmeriKKKan right to bitch and goddamnit they will have to pry the keyboard from my cold, dead fingers if they think they can stop me (until I make fun of Pointy or something and RobB bans me out of pique). Unfortunately, all of the emails in question look something like this:
> Hi all, sorry for this post but I'm angry with the situation in myspace.
> I would like to write a petition regarding discrimination of blind users
Yes! All blind people should have as much of a right to post our favorite techno hit of the week along with drunk pictures of ourselves naked as everyone else! No, wait--you're wrong.
First, conventional wisdom is that myspace is a royal pain in the ass for everyone who didn't grow up using it. Let me state, for the record, that CAPTCHA aside myspace is entirely useable. It totally sucks, as I've said before, but you can do it without eyes.
Next, calling it it "descrimination" is ridiculous. I'm assuming that you aren't calling the website itself descriminating since... it's a website, and has no feelings. But who are you directing your ire at, exactly? The ones who designed the interface are only doign what they're told by marketing people. You can't blame them either because they're just following a current trend in the 12-21-year-old demographic that makes up the lion's share of their userbase. So where do you want to go with that? Rupert Merdoc?
Okay, now you have a target. Now you get to proove that Rupert Merdoc hates the blind. I can think of quite a few poparazi groups that would love to do just that and have nothing better to do than look for it. Trust me, 'snot gonna happen. Besides, do you people honestly think that the guy who owns the Wallstreet Journal is gonna move because a couple hundred people send him angry letters? Grow up.
It would also be quite helpful if you could come up with a specific, you know, list of grevences to complain about before you start the complaining. I would think. In the end it's all pretty academic though, because You don't have the right to tell free websites how to organize their content. You *do* have the right to use another service. So do that and stop whining. Please.
> Hi all, sorry for this post but I'm angry with the situation in myspace.
> I would like to write a petition regarding discrimination of blind users
Yes! All blind people should have as much of a right to post our favorite techno hit of the week along with drunk pictures of ourselves naked as everyone else! No, wait--you're wrong.
First, conventional wisdom is that myspace is a royal pain in the ass for everyone who didn't grow up using it. Let me state, for the record, that CAPTCHA aside myspace is entirely useable. It totally sucks, as I've said before, but you can do it without eyes.
Next, calling it it "descrimination" is ridiculous. I'm assuming that you aren't calling the website itself descriminating since... it's a website, and has no feelings. But who are you directing your ire at, exactly? The ones who designed the interface are only doign what they're told by marketing people. You can't blame them either because they're just following a current trend in the 12-21-year-old demographic that makes up the lion's share of their userbase. So where do you want to go with that? Rupert Merdoc?
Okay, now you have a target. Now you get to proove that Rupert Merdoc hates the blind. I can think of quite a few poparazi groups that would love to do just that and have nothing better to do than look for it. Trust me, 'snot gonna happen. Besides, do you people honestly think that the guy who owns the Wallstreet Journal is gonna move because a couple hundred people send him angry letters? Grow up.
It would also be quite helpful if you could come up with a specific, you know, list of grevences to complain about before you start the complaining. I would think. In the end it's all pretty academic though, because You don't have the right to tell free websites how to organize their content. You *do* have the right to use another service. So do that and stop whining. Please.