Why Geeks Hate Myspace
Throughout middle school and often throughout high school, geeks are the outsiders. We are isolated and alone near the bottom of the social order. This happens for a variety of reasons. It can be because others feel intimidated by our intelligence or because we doesn’t feel a need to play the social games necessary to become one of the popular crowd. Whatever the reason, geeks become the outcasts in many social situations.
While geeks tend to be outsiders socially, one place where we dominate is in our understanding of technology. We’re often far ahead of our peers in our grasp on computers and other electronic devices. A large part of the internet is dominated by geek culture, and the internet has allowed us, as geeks, to break out of our isolation and find other linkminded people all over the world. Geeks tend to think of the internet as ours.
Myspace, however, is an encroachment by the old order on to an arena that the geeks consider their own. Myspace is a bastion of the same rumor-mongering popularity contests that made up junior high and high school. Instead of being a place dominated by geeks, it’s a place where anyone can set up their own personal presence on the internet without having to have any technical knowledge or expertise whatsoever.
Myspace brings the horrors of middle school drama to the internet. For me, at least, middle school was one of the worst periods of my life. I don’t feel any huge need to go back to that by becoming a part of the myspace culture.
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