The lovely and talented Amalah was kind enough to e-mail me yesterday to let me know that someone on MySpace was blatantly plagiarizing some of my posts and passing them off as her own.
Apparently, the young plagiarist is an 18-year old girl from Las Vegas who not only cribbed some of my posts but also ripped off various writing from Amalah, Dooce, and Mr. Nice Guy. Because our young plagiarist is both single and childless, she altered our stories to pass them off as her own adventures in babysitting. The lives of our own children were co-opted as those of her unrelated minions.
How fucking pathetic is that?
Apparently, one of Amalah's 8 million readers discovered the young plagiarist, noticed the similarities immediately and duly informed Amalah of the offending trespass. Amalah then started doing some serious sleuthing of her own and discovered that she wasn't the only victim. Not only did she notify me but she also contacted MySpace to report the plagiarism.
How cool is that?
Personally, I think it's a little amusing that some white teenage chick from the desert would plagiarize the writing of a 37-year-old Korean dude living in New York City. It's almost comically pathetic. However, this does give me the perfect opportunity to rant about the moral turpitude and brain-numbing pile of shit known as MySpace.
I'll be the first to admit it. Maybe I'm just an old geezer who doesn't "get" the whole MySpace experience. Call me old-fashioned but every time I look at a MySpace page, I want to set my eyeballs on fire and smack someone on the side of the head with a dictionary.
Now, I'm happily married with a child and an actual career. So, yeah, maybe I don't "get" MySpace because I'm not looking to "hook up wit a hottie" or "get wildz and crazeeee!"
But even if I were young and single? I don't think I'd be cruising the pages of MySpace. In fact, there are so many things that I hate about MySpace, I don't even know where to begin. But I'll give it a try...
I hate how MySpace denigrates the meaning of the word "friend." For me, the concept of friendship is something special. As I've said before, a friend is someone who knows everything about you and likes you anyway, who knows you're suffering even when you're fooling everyone else, and who will always volunteer to drive you around in a white Bronco while 200 police cars follow you down the Interstate.
However, MySpace "friends" are cheap and meaningless. They're a dime a dozen. The whole point of MySpace is to accrue as many friends as possible. It doesn't matter if you know anything about that person at all. Just push a button and ask them to add you as a friend! Somehow, this will provide you with a sense of self-worth that you're sorely missing from the real world. After all, can you really be a loser if you have 3,247 friends?
Well, as most profiles on MySpace demonstrate, clearly you can!
"Look at this profile! Her name's ForBidDen BuTTerCup. She's from Miami and she's HOTTT! That's all I know about her 'cos she's hot and she's my FRIEND!"
Look, Fucko, I hate to break it to you but ForBidDen BuTTerCup is probably a dude. And he doesn't live in Miami. He lives at home with his mother and wants nothing more than for you to send him photos of yourself in your skivvies. See, there's a reason that some of these people are on the internet 20 hours/day and not hanging out with all the "kewl" friends that they allegedly have in real life. They're freaks, dude! Don't be busting out that webcam and taking pictures of yourself in your underoos just yet!
Another thing that bothers me about MySpace if the blatant pimping of cheap sexuality. How come every time I look at a MySpace profile, I feel like I'm looking at a future $1.00 stripper working the Bada Bing room off the Jersey Turnpike? Because just as MySpace cheapens the concept of friendship, it also cheapens the notion of sexuality.
Have you seen the women on MySpace? It's like the land of the sluts. Virtually every girl is either showing some serious cleavage, flashing their thongs, or auditioning for a part on the next Girls Gone Wild video. Sadly, most of these girls appear to be either underage or in college (where they can unleash their inner slut.) Now, personally, the thing that I find most bothersome is the sense that somehow, we (as a society) have reached a point where the true meaning of sexy has been completely lost.
You know what's sexy to me? A beautiful face with a great smile, a nice easy-going laugh, a curiously intelligent mind, a kind heart, and an effortless sense of style. You want to know what's NOT sexy? Surgically enhanced mammaries and seeing the outline of your vulva in your boy shorts. You're 17 years old. I don't want to see your catcher's mitt.
Don't worry. I haven't forgotten about you MySpace guys either. Let me tell you, I think it's hilarious that most of you pose without a shirt on. We get it, buddy. You're buff. You like to pump iron, take steroids, and flex your muscles in group photos with your buddies like you're doing a reenactment of Spartacus in your parents' garage. If you spent half as much time reading a book as you do working out, that future job in waste management wouldn't have to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Eventually, your he-man titties are going to sag and your balls are going to recede into your stomach. Where will you be then, Mr. MuscleHustLe22?
It shouldn't surprise anyone that there are sexual predators cruising around on MySpace. After all, virtually everyone on the site sets themselves up as sexual prey. And sure, MySpace didn't invent the phenomenon of pedophilia but, at the same time, they don't seem to be really doing anything to discourage the behavior either. Sure, they've made some well-publicized changes in age requirements. However, there's virtually no way to enforce those measures.
Speaking of age, the latest statistics show that 52% of MySpace users are 35 or older. However, out of that 52%, it's been proven that 90% are pedophiles and the other 10% are losers. (Ok, I made those last two statistics up. But seriously, if you're over 35, what the hell are you doing on MySpace?)
The only redeeming factor for MySpace is that it serves as a good publicity tool for established bands, aspiring musicians, stand-up comics, and writers. However, to those people, I urge you to read the fine print. According to the Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com...
"By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services."
Bet most of you didn't know that, right?
Anyway, I could go on for days about how much I hate MySpace. However, I'll just let it go right now.
But Claudia? I come out to Vegas several times a year. Perhaps next time I'm in town, the two of us can have a drink at the Bellagio and you can regale me with all your stories about raising a two-year-old Korean-American daughter in Manhattan.
After all, it seems we have so much in common.
Your stats are probably pretty close to the truth--I'd say 80% pervs/losers/AmberVision glasses wearers, 15% plain losers who still live at home with their parents (a la Will Ferrell's character in The Wedding Crashers), and 5% To Catch A Predator talent scouts.
Posted by: KC | September 07, 2006 at 12:35 PM
This post reminded me of something I wanted to point out in your entry on children awhile back, in which you said:
"But as I look around at couples with multiple kids, I realize that even things like names become less and less important. With the first child, it's always, "Oh, Sweetie! You were named after my favorite relative, Grandma Eden, who lovingly raised me when I was a young child. I'll always have a special place in my heart for her and, when I look at you, I see her beautiful soul shining brightly inside of you."
By the 4th kid, it's like, "Your name? You were named after a fucking sandwich. Now, go get your brothers and sisters, Reuben!"
I don't know if you realize this, but that line is lifted from a Jim Gaffigan bit:
"People get burned out in big families, you can even see it in the naming of children. Like the first kid, "You were named after Grandma." The seventh kid, "You were named after a sandwich I had. Now get your brother, Reuben."
Not that what Claudia's doing is anything REMOTELY close to that. I can't believe people are so pathetic they need to troll other people's sites and created their own demented, sad little quasi-world for themselves.
Anyway, I'm a fan of your writing, so don't think I'm ragging on you; I just happened to read your post and think, "Holy Crap! That's Jim Gaffigan's bit!"
Unless you happen to BE Jim Gaffigan, in which case I humbly apologize. :)
If you haven't heard his stuff, I suggest giving him a listen. He's great.
Posted by: Shauna | September 07, 2006 at 12:45 PM
I fucking hate MySpace. Thank you for articulating the precise reasons why.
Posted by: Brian | September 07, 2006 at 12:48 PM
Dude, that's wack! I can't believe that someone would have the balls - or lack thereof apparently - to plagiarise you.
Anyhoo, I'm with you on the MySpace rant - mostly. I set a profile just for grins to see if I could find anyone I knew or went to high school with (I'm 24, young and single, so blah ... ) and amazingly enough, I actually did find a couple of really good friends by the true definition. We've managed to keep in touch and it's been super fantastic being able to reconnect. However, with regards to dating? Hell no. No. No. No.
I'm still amazed at the plagiarism. And dooce too? Wow. What a flaming idiot.
:)
Alex
Posted by: AlieMalie | September 07, 2006 at 12:58 PM
I thought I was way too old for myspace, and I'm 26...
Posted by: zygote daddy | September 07, 2006 at 01:03 PM
Hey Shauna...I had no idea that line was from Jim Gaffigan. I don't even know who Jim Gaffigan is. I heard someone at a bar use that line and I thought it was genius. Credit where credit is due. I'll certainly attribute that to Mr. Gaffigan and I apologize to him for stealing a great line.
Posted by: MetroDad | September 07, 2006 at 01:10 PM
I totally agree with you about MySpace. Especially the part about "friends." I've heard some people have over a million friends! Wonder how many of them will be there when times are tough!
Posted by: I Hate MySpace | September 07, 2006 at 01:13 PM
No worries, MetroDad. I knew you weren't purposely ripping him off.
You should definitely give Jim a listen. FYI: he's in those Sierra Mist commercials (the pale, blond guy). His act is great.
Posted by: Shauna | September 07, 2006 at 01:16 PM
My first encounter with MySpace was last spring when our new neighbors moved in next door and the mother said to me one day, "Our daughter really likes it here in Idaho, and she's made so many friends through her MySpace page."
Red flags went up in my mind, if not in hers, as I was at least familiar with what goes on at MySpace. So I checked out their 15-year-old daughter's page to discover she'd posted risque pictures of herself, complete with that omnipresent cleavage you mentioned. Well no wonder she's made so many friends!
And these "friends" she was making? All over 18, some of them in their early 20's. Not only were they slobbering all over her MySpace page, but they also found out where she lives and started driving by at all hours of the day and night.
The end of the story is that these clueless parents had to go out of town for a week and they left their 15-year-old daughter ALONE, trusting that she would do nothing but go to school and come home. Nope, instead she invited all of her MySpace friends over, and they invited their MySpace friends over, and pretty soon there was a week-long drunken orgy going on over there.
When the parents got home and found out about what happened, they grew backbones and laid down the law. Her MySpace page disappeared, her "friends" were banished, and I think she is now a little more grown-up than before.
MySpace is bad news.
Posted by: Phil | September 07, 2006 at 01:17 PM
I work in HR for a large corporation and lately we've been checking to see if any potential job applicants have pages on MySpace. While it's not an automatic red flag just to have a MySpace page, I will say that we have rejected several people because of the content they chose to put up on those pages. We did not feel they would be good representatives of the company.
Posted by: Brent | September 07, 2006 at 01:20 PM
Well Said!!
First of all, that girl plagiarizing - I don't know what goes through these people's minds- do you know how common this is in today's kids? There's something seriously wrong with this.
As for MySpace - It's a cesspool.
Posted by: Tony | September 07, 2006 at 01:33 PM
MySpace is everything that's wrong with America. I fear for our future.
Posted by: Brad | September 07, 2006 at 01:41 PM
I'm a myspace hater too, unfortunately, all my little cousins are on it. It also forced me to create a profile when I wanted to place a comment on my friend's blog, (damn him for setting up shop on myspace) and for some reason on my profile it says "I don't want kids" when I didn't enter anything. Weird.
That said, the fact that someone lifted stuff from your blog made me think about copyrights and whether or not one can really enforce them as a small time blogger. The kid in Las Vegas is a pathetic idiot for sure, but really, what control do we have? There was a column in Newsweek back in May that posed this question. Interesting times we live in when our words may or may not belong to us and even more interesting will be what comes out of them.
Posted by: honglien123 | September 07, 2006 at 01:43 PM
I'm a fairly recent college grad, but I missed the MySpace/Facebook craze somehow. I think I'm part of the target demographic, but I just don't enjoy it. I'm totally with you, MD, for all the reasons you stated, with the small addition that I hate it when people's pages automatically blast music at you. And what's this pretense of "networking"? Who does that? It's so annoying when (actual real-life) friends ask me, "When are you finally getting on MySpace?" as if it were the same as asking, "When are you going to give in to gravity?" Bah.
Anyway, did you ever take action - whatever that might look like - against this MySpace girl?
Posted by: RA | September 07, 2006 at 02:12 PM
Hi MD,
I just wanted to thank you for the introduction to Amalah. Very good stuff!
That MySpace girl will get busted soon, if not now, then College. I used to teach at a College and we could upload student papers into a website that would check for plagiarism. You'd be SHOCKED by how often we would discover those little cheaters. BUSTED!
Posted by: Amanda | September 07, 2006 at 02:17 PM
New to this country I don't understand the obsession that people have with myspace.
I think that instead of connecting people for the love of music it became a beehive for sex partners/jokes and more irrelevant stuff that in the "real world" would never be considered as a social network - MD - KICK THEIR ASS -it's no different then any other identity fraud case
Posted by: abba-daddy | September 07, 2006 at 02:20 PM
Wow, I had no idea about that proprietary rights in content policy on MySpace. How can any band put music up on the site then? Doesn't the policy mean that the rights to those songs now belong to MySpace? As someone who works in the music industry, I've never heard of this before. Thanks for the tip, MD!
Posted by: EMO DAD | September 07, 2006 at 02:28 PM
I mean, I know you're married and all, but is it okay for me to admit I just developed a HUGE CRUSH ON YOU?
I have ranted about MySpace on my blog at length, and I just don't get why anyone who ISN'T a teenager would subject themselves to the nightmarish page designs and Friendster-on-meth hookups.
SO well put, my fellow hater. SO well put.
Posted by: Meg | September 07, 2006 at 02:33 PM
personally, i thought this whole plagiarism thing was freakin' hilarious. i suspect "Claudia" has a real name and it's "Doris Kearns Goodwin."
regarding myspace: some kid i work with made me get a myspace page while i was on leave. she even set it up for me and assigned me a password (r3tard ... because i command respect).
anyway i was on the site for like a day and i was amazed at how useless it is. i have very savvy friends who are totally hooked on it. but me? i am not trying to get laid (i have craigslist's casual encounters for that) and i don't have a band. at least a band that isn't imaginary and TOTALLY awesome. so what's the point, myspace?
anyway ... any of you ladies up for some NSA action?
Posted by: mr nice guy | September 07, 2006 at 02:58 PM
Rupert Murdoch owns MySpace, so even if I were half my age I'd boycott it on general principles.
Posted by: LOD | September 07, 2006 at 03:00 PM
A dangerous place, MySpace, for the young and naive.
Cakes isn't getting unaccompanied internet access until she's 25!
Posted by: metro mama | September 07, 2006 at 03:02 PM
MySpace *is* a cesspool, and I was disturbed to come home one night and find my babysitters MySpace page still loaded on my computer. She does have my permission to go on-line (she's 24), but my first reaction when I saw the browser window with "MySpace" on it was OH NO! Please let there not be half-naked pictures on here! YUCK! Then, yes, I *did* read through her page, since it is open to the public. Thankfully, it is actually one of the tamer pages I've ever seen, mostly keeping in touch with friends who have moved around the country, etc., and so I felt fine about it and didn't have to go apeshit and find a new babysitter.
Everyone has heard about the sexual predators who troll through the site, but nobody is thinking through the implications for their future job prospects or future relationships. I loved reading the comments from people who actually HAVE looked up students or job applicants - when will people learn?
Posted by: Velma | September 07, 2006 at 03:09 PM
I'm 25 years old and while most of my peers have a myspace page, my close friends and I don't "get" it either. Most people seem to be using the site to either hook up randomly with strangers or to fill some sort of other strange void in their life. Trust me. There's a lot of us "younger" people who think MySpace sucks also.
Posted by: lily | September 07, 2006 at 03:25 PM
Like RA, I'm probably part of their target demographic, and most of my friends have myspace pages. But I just don't like the idea of having to sign in and put in a password just to see someone's personal site.
When I was in high school, it was all about AIM and AOL chat rooms, then it was xangas, and now I guess it's myspace.
Anyway, it's pretty pathetic that someone had to pose other people's writing for their own. Is their life that sad?
Posted by: Nina | September 07, 2006 at 03:33 PM
do you know how bad I wanted to send you a myspace friend invite just now? sooooo bad
It is a frightening place in there. I'm Bob Dylan's friend! In my job every one wants to know how to use myspace their products, and half the time I want to say "dress it up in g-strings and slutty make-up and you're in"
By the way, I'm CroutonBoy! Check out my profile if you want to get wildz and crazeeeee
Posted by: CroutonBoy | September 07, 2006 at 03:33 PM
I will admit that, shamefully, I have a Myspace page. The only reason is for the music info, even though I'm getting tired of strange bands asking to be my friend. I do have some friends listed, but they are all actually people I know, or bands I listen to routinely....And they are all adults.
I might actually be the one non-perv between the ages of 30-34 who has a page. But after reading this, maybe I'll cancel -- Metrodad, you're such a positive influence!
Posted by: Vampdaddy | September 07, 2006 at 03:47 PM
Amen, MD! I basically feel the same way about MySpace... just the other day I had to explain to my very conservative Mother what exactly it was. That was a treat, let me tell you!
(How's the diet going? Still no scotch?)
Posted by: Krista | September 07, 2006 at 04:13 PM
It looks like they finally deleted the little thief.
Posted by: Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah | September 07, 2006 at 04:25 PM
I LOVED THIS RANT, MD! I've hated MySpace for so long but have never been able to articulate my hatred for it as well as you have here. Amen! Death to MySpace!
Posted by: J.B. | September 07, 2006 at 04:39 PM
It looks like your plagiarizing buddy has taken down her page, or it was taken down for her. How pathetic. As a teacher I have to deal with the plagiarim issue more than I'd like to, and it is always sad. I generally 'preach' against MySpace, too, but I do have a page there because my former students asked me to as it is 'their' way of keeping in touch. You won't see me there in a bikini, though. I have too much respect for the feng shui of the universe. I still give my students the "MySpace can ruin your life" speech every semester, though.
Moderation. It's not just for drinking any more.
Oh MAN, I love your blog.
Posted by: Mamacita | September 07, 2006 at 05:07 PM
to be fair, I think the kind of myspace your talking about is a particular kind of person..I have a myspace page as well as most of my friends..but I would never ever post half naked or naked pictures of myself, I dont give out personal details, all my friends are people I genuinely know and just having left school this year I think its a great way to keep in touch with people and none of my friends are those kind of people either, I think if your parents teach you about this kind of stuff and you're sensible then theres no problem with it..those kind of people that post half naked pictures of themselves and what not just lack common sense in my mind. Not all teenagers are like that! Although I do agree that older people tend to look a bit weird on there..I think its hard not to come off looking like a pervert at that age!
I've never posted a comment on here before but I think your blog is hilarious!
Posted by: Emily | September 07, 2006 at 06:33 PM
MD, Have I told you lately, that I think we are long lost twins? I love to rant about MySpace and you couldn't pay me to join it. This post cracked me up. What I really want to know though, is did it pain you physically to type the sentence "get wildz and crazeeee!"?
Posted by: Melissa | September 07, 2006 at 07:33 PM
I have only been vaguely aware of MySpace, and don't think I've ever even checked it out - and this post has done nothing to intrigue me. But I have been plagiarising your material for a while now, just not in writing. Why just the other day, I was telling the guys at work the story about how I met Kevin Costner in the men's room of a Colorado bar...
Seriously though, there is just no excuse for that biatch from passing your stuff off as her own, though - that's just foul. Karma will be paid...
I thought the comments about your inadvertent use of Jim Gaffigan's material (and I've never heard of him, either) were most interesting; many times I've thought up a funny gag or a story, only to see some comedian use the same thing (or I read it in a book, or see it on TV or in a movie, etc), and I think "did I steal that? I thought I had made it up!". I think there is probably nothing new under the sun, and any truly original thought I might have has probably been thunk already millions of times before.
Posted by: IFLYG | September 07, 2006 at 07:41 PM
I have spent all of two seconds on myspace. It's as awful as your rant is right on.
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Posted by: Henri | September 07, 2006 at 09:02 PM
My Space sounds awful. I'm more familiar with Facebook (an academic version of My Space perhaps?) because my husband is a prof. And yes, he's on Facebook. Ick.
Great post on this. I read about this nutjob "Claudia" on Amalah yesterday.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis | September 07, 2006 at 09:47 PM
I don't get MySpace either. But I'm out of the loop on most things.
But I do check out bands' pages there.
Posted by: Chag | September 07, 2006 at 09:49 PM
MySpace scares me.
Posted by: Queen of Ass | September 07, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Just a few things:
Claudia is a dirty dirty whore. NOTHING causes me chest pains like plagiarism. I was an English major and had to deal with fellow class mates pulling that shit when I busted my ass.
I think you automatically get an STD if you type MySpace in the browser window, no?
Catcher's mit? Spit out my TJ's Pirates Booty. Freakin' hilarious. Now I'm off to use that on my blog. Hope you don't mind.
Posted by: samantha jo campen | September 07, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Hey MD - U R Kool! Ur my friend 2, k? UR TOATS AWESOME Ps Im sending U pics of my ass.
xoxoo
Posted by: Xdm | September 07, 2006 at 10:21 PM
I cannot stop laughing at the thought of a single, childless woman ripping-off parenting blogs. Are "personal blogs" so uninteresting that there is no worthy fodder there?
I don't get MySpace. I hate the cluttery pages and the crappy Evanescense songs that blare out your computer speakers the second you click on a page. But even more than that, I don't get that woman that is a celebrity just because she has a million MySpace "friends."
MySpace is weak.
Posted by: CityMama | September 07, 2006 at 10:31 PM
This is quite possibly the single greatest rant about MySpace that I've ever heard. Thanks, MD! I loved this post!
Posted by: Emily | September 07, 2006 at 10:42 PM
Killin' me--again. Always like that last paragraph. The MD kicker...
Posted by: R2Dad | September 07, 2006 at 10:48 PM
Well, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery--maybe she just reaaalllly likes you. In a Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female-kinda way.
I think myspace is social darwinism for the 21st century. Last week, I was on wonkette, and they had someone's campaign staffer's myspace page where he was pictured with a bong. In my day, political interns didn't allow themselves to be photographed in such compromising positions!
Posted by: landismom | September 07, 2006 at 11:03 PM
I read mr. niceguy's post yesterday about this and I couldn't believe it but you too?! Well, you got to be a little bit flattered. Claudia, aka the "invalid", has taste in ripping off good stuff at least!
Posted by: Waya | September 07, 2006 at 11:16 PM
MetroDad,
just thought I'd say hi ... I popped over here from Amalah's blog. You're hilarious. Glad I found you, even if it took Claudia to bring us all together. I love your comments on MySpace.
Neomi
Posted by: Neomi | September 07, 2006 at 11:20 PM
This information, and your take on it, took my breath away. As I think you know, I have "older" kids (which makes me older but this isn't about that). My 14 year old son is now banned from the computer unless it is school related. He did nothing intentional except go to MySpace, which proceeds to be a portal for a million, zillion, kabillion, spyware and adware anomolies. I kept up with his MySpace and it was fine - with stupid notes from benign real life friends - but it's done. When the computer taps you on the shoulder and says that 412 pornographic pop-ups have linked through various sites --- and the computer gurus find out that your kid only goes to MySpace and MLB dot come --- you know what happens next. NoSpace. UGH. What ever happened to just watching inappropriate television. Ah, the good old days.
Posted by: Kvetch | September 07, 2006 at 11:33 PM
Oh god. Myspace is the end of civilization, and people are just eating it up.
I feel like an old fogey saying that, but it's true.
Since when did sexy mean slutty?
Posted by: Amy | September 08, 2006 at 12:15 AM
I scared the crap out of my young staff when i mentioned to them that I visited their myspace pages.
The looks that they shot each other was priceless. Then I went on my own rant about Myspace and told them that future employers would be checking those things out.
I'm not sure if I converted any but it was fun messing with them.
Posted by: Matthew | September 08, 2006 at 12:17 AM
I'm morally opposed to MySpace, and I'm a youngster too (26). I signed up for an account (with a fake name though) so I could look at my 14-year-old brother's blog. He's smart enough to keep his security setting super high, thank goodness. But you know what's worse than all the creepy weirdos and cluttered page designs? The site performance! I don't know how that thing is so frickin' popular when 75% of the time there is a page error, and the rest of the time it's as slow as mud.
I'll never forget the time that I proofed a friend's paper in college, and I realized she had straight up lifted a bunch of material from the website for a film I had watched in another class. I definitely looked at her differently after that.
Posted by: Driver B | September 08, 2006 at 01:01 AM