Goodbye MySpace

I've given up on MySpace. Why did I even bother starting? Well, my son was using it and he told me it would be a good way to keep track of his exploits. At first I was hesitant, because it's so clearly aimed at 20 year olds, but Adam told me, quite generously, "The Internet is for everyone". It quickly got annoying. No sooner did I sign up , but I started getting phoney "friend invitations" that were really advertisements for porn sites. But I can ignore spam. Harder to ignore are the advertisements, especially those with motion. How does anyone tolerate it? Maybe the kids tape little squares of opaque paper over the areas where the ads are. Maybe even that i could have lived with. But it's just too slow. (I'm told that MySpace is now the most heavily used site on the net.) What are all those people doing?

I have an awful suspicion. MySpace must be using a huge web farm. Maybe they've adjusted the routing so that undesirable people like me (that is to say, those over 30) get handled by slow servers, so we'll jusy give up and go away. Could it be true?