Help Me Get Rid of Tom

Posted on 06.23.06 in Tech Stuff and there are 10 comments.

So I finally decided to do something with my Myspace page. I’m not sure why. I suppose I just love to be up on the latest and greatest technology and web stuff and right now, that’s Myspace.

Here’s the problem. My mommy friends don’t have myspace pages so I don’t have many friends (on MySpace that is). Let me put it this way, Tom is one of my top four. Top four? Yes, I’d have a Top Eight, but I only have four friends....

So, if you have a MySpace account feel free to add me as your friend. I at least want to be able to get rid of “Tom.”

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You can just delete Tom as one of your friends. It doesn’t hurt or break anything, and doesn’t cause any personal offense to him—he just adds himself automatically when you create the account as part of his account-creation script.

Well, that would be the easy way.

I deleted him but added him back to My Favorites just in case I needed him for something.  But you know “fancy” codes all on your own so you probably won’t be needing his links. 

Marianne,
That’s actually the thing that frustrates me a bit about Myspace. It is a creature all it’s own. I’ve found it a bit difficult to edit with all my “fancy” code because it’s code is just a mess.

Maybe I’m a code snob…

By the way, thanks for the add.

I think it’d be cool to be a code snob. 

Looks like Tom is off the top 8.

I know! He’s gone, I’m so excited. Thanks!

You can be a code snob too, just say things like:
“Ugh, I can’t stand MySpace it’s SO not W3C Compliant, it doesn’t validate and where’s the xhtml and structured css? Table layouts - inline css? That’s SO last century. They really need to separate the design and content.”

There you go. You can now sound like an official code snob. 

Hey Kat, it’s Shea from WD list Just had to comment, I went to Myspace and added you as a friend.  I think I’m practically a Myspace veteran now.  I deleted Tom a long time ago, lol.  LOL @ being a code snob!  It’s pretty much a mess with the code, you just kind of have to try not to think about it.  Wait until you go to someone’s page who has blinking backgrounds and 15 quiz codes and neon green text on a bright green background, and two different music files playing at the same time.  Plus a video feed!

Shea,
Glad to see you here! Thanks for taking the time to comment. I haven’t seen your friend request yet, but I’ll be on the lookout for it. Do they usually get sent immediately?

Oh, I have seen some of those flashing, blinking pages. I generally pop a couple Tums before surfing myspace. 

Ugh. I’m a design snob too, I guess.

I remember back when I first created my MySpace (insert hissing noise) account, I logged in and WHO THE HEY IS TOM??? And what’s he doing on my page?! What is this friends thing?!! He must be some weirdo stalker guy!! What have I gotten into?!

It really kinda shook me up. But I quickly recovered and deleted him. It felt good. But then I didn’t have any friends at all....

Hoo, yes, some of the beautiful layouts some users have pretty much send me into spasms. “Let’s see how many weird little HTML toys we can stuff onto our pages and give dial-up users heart attacks! Yes!”

Eric,
That’s hilarious about Tom. Yes, they should put some sort of warning about him.

Thanks for the add!

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