The idiots of MySpace, YouTube and Leeds criminals

[matgb]

• Exit Warning on MySpace - Tom MySpace Blog
  MySpace is infested with spammers, phishers and idiots. Rather than dump the phishers and spammers, they've decided to treat all users like idiots. And a huge number of their idiot users thank them for it. Gods I hate that site.
  (tags: MySpace Phishing spam)
• 7 Essential Web Design Principles to Earn Trust. And 4 Things to Avoid! | 10e20 Blog
  Nice little summary here, definitely worth reading if you're writing a lot of web published stuff. Y'know, like blog or LJ posts...
  (tags: blogging usability writing)
• Leedsâ™s dumbest criminal: posting crimes on YouTube
  Wow, how stupid is this? I'm not sure which is worse, that he did it, or that theyve banned him from giving them more evidence. Leeds Cllr says: 'Leedsâ™s dumbest criminal' which, given it's Leeds, is quite impressive.
  (tags: Leeds Yorkshire YouTube)

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

theyve banned him from giving them more evidence

How stupid and self-defeating is that? Eejits.

[matgb]

Aye, I mean arresting him and putting him in court makes sense, but stopping him from giving them more evidence just strikes me as a bit strange. Ah well.

[doccy.livejournal.com]

I can kinda understand the reasoning... It's good to have evidence, but it's better to not have videos on YouTube that may encourage others to mock imitate him.

[rho]

I love MySpace. It serves the invaluable purpose of keeping all the morons in one place and away from the rest of the Internet.

[matgb]

This are good point. Unfortunately some of the users (like my old MP) aren't idiots. Same way that some of the comments on news are at times worth reading.

Ah well. Avoid it for the most part and go only when necessary seems to work.

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

MySpace. *shudders* I keep meaning to delete my profile from there, but to do that I'd have to log on in the first place.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Thanks Matt your the gr8test \m/

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Many things come together to form trust. Starting from the design of the logo to the text and what it reads,

Text is getting real clever, not to mention recursive.