I have a myspace account. It's part of my online promoting of books that I'm trying to sell. Myspace is a weird place. All the negative stuff with regards to kids on myspace notwithstanding, it's loaded with porn spam and flat out strangeness.
So be it. It's the egalitarianism of the internet I suppose.
However the weirdness I'm referring to is how people respond to you when you request to add them as friends. I can find folks from all around the world, send a friend request and they either accept it or not - no fuss, no muss.
Try sending a request to someone who attended the same school, and I, with very few exceptions, receive the third degree. I get messages saying:
1. Do I know you?
2. Why do you want to be friends?
3. Do we know the same people?
And so on, and so on.
I don't know what it is, but networking via school attended seems to invoke some sort of suspicion on the part of the requestee. And a real irony is that they often have "friends, networking" listed as their reasons for being on myspace.
It's funny, in a wry sort of way.
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