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writesomething
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posted July 16, 2008 09:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for writesomething     Edit/Delete Message
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PeaceAngel
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posted July 17, 2008 01:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
i had a myspace page for a couple of days and decided it was going to be too addictive and shut it down. so i totally get you. even being here is addictive. it feeds my need for stimulation.

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SunChild
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posted July 17, 2008 04:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Oh my freaking Gawwwd! I was thinking along the same lines as you yesterday writesomething!!!!!!!!!


I was soooo close to deleting it!! But instead i whiped my page clean and thought well, I might use it just to see updates on my friends now and then, instead of checking up on an ex, or reading how great people think they are.

My recent ex is also now dating a supermodel...how freaky!!! And I sometimes check his page just to make myself feel worse!

Wow now I know i need to take a huge step away from that place. The only thing I wrote on my page yesterday was exactly how I was feeling about the whole myspace thing. Encouraging people to step outside of their virtual world!

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SunChild
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posted July 17, 2008 05:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Another thing, sometimes I look at peoples pages and realise that they aren't truly fulfilling their spiritual or passionate desires outside in the real world.

And I really get concerned after being at someones page worried that they might be a bit sick, perhaps too caught up in self-obsession or narcisism.

They express themselves on the internet, some pages look like they must have spent at least 100 hours designing and adding content.
It is a little evil.

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SunChild
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posted July 17, 2008 05:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Oh 1 more point ( you can tell this has stirred me up lol)

There are alot of people that represent our past in life. Generally, in the absense of modern technology, they would stay in the past, and on the internet there is an ethereal connection to other people, but no astral connection, hence there could be a lot of unhealthy conquences for restablishing relationships that are karmically not meant to be re-established.

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charmainec
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posted July 17, 2008 08:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
SunChild - It depends. Someone actually made contact with me through the net and apologized for something they did to me years ago. This person was trying to find me but couldn't until they come across my profile on facebook. We made our peace and the karmic chains are broken and we can both move on.

On the flip side, there are people who would use these facilities to start trouble all over again.

I wouldn't say myspace etc is evil as the individual has a choice of how much time they spend on it and what they use it for

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bunnies
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posted July 17, 2008 10:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bunnies     Edit/Delete Message
I am amazed at how many ex's are dating supermodels.
How many supermodels are there to go round?
I don't want to sound cynical...heaven forbid...but is there any chance they could be (gasp) making it up?
Or are they really going out with Gladys who does the evening shift at the local Booze Busters but hey! she scrubs up well?

We are all having fabulous lives on My Space on Facebook...
If they were all having such fantastic lives they would be too busy to spend their time typing in..."Paul is feeling surreal today"
Or are they actually saying
"For God's sake Naomi/ Kate/ Petra/ Eva/ will you leave me alone. I'm trying to write on the Wall of my old school chum from Chigwell Primary"

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SunChild
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posted July 17, 2008 05:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
Bunnies Lmao!

Charmain yeh it does depend on certain things, I just said it could be unhealthy. I just think that if there's temptation there it could be a bad thing for some. I actually found my ex boyfriends ex wife and we both spoke and apologized to eachother for the way we treated eachother 8 years ago and I felt a lot better. But in reality, I just had to forgive myself, and let it go. Now we are sharing photos and talking, and Iv'e stopped because it doesnt feel right anymore.

For the most part, I see a lot more negatives affecting certain people, who may be easily tempted. Totally different if you dont have much time in real life to spend on it.

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charmainec
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posted July 18, 2008 02:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for charmainec     Edit/Delete Message
SunChild - Yes, it is sad when people become so pre-occupied with the net that they forget that there is more to life.
I'm glad you made peace with your ex boyfriends wife

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Beka
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posted July 18, 2008 06:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Beka     Edit/Delete Message
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MoonWitch
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posted July 20, 2008 01:19 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MoonWitch     Edit/Delete Message
I love MySpace most of the time.

I got into contact with cousins and uncles and other family I haven't seen or talked to since the 80's. My mom, dad, brother, step dad and grandmother are on MySpace! It's an easy way to just post pictures and have all of them see them at the same time.

My friend when I was 15 years old contacted me YESTERDAY after finding me on MySpace. I haven't talked to her in 20 years because she moved. Now I can catch up with her and look at pictures of her 3 children.

A friend from 6th grade found me and we chat. I keep in contact with my New York friends that I used to hang out with in the early 90's before I moved to Los Angeles. It's fun to look at their pages and see what they are up to even if they were just fond acquaintences.

It's a little presumptuous to assume that someone isn't spending enough time 'in the real world' just because they have a nice looking MySpace page. Most people get their layouts already made and they just copy and paste some code - takes 5 minutes.

Of course, I prefer LiveJournal because I write out all my more personal stuff there and all my deeper thoughts and day to day life...

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MoonWitch
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posted July 20, 2008 01:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MoonWitch     Edit/Delete Message
On another note - I did have a stalker chick visiting my page 12-20 times a day about a year ago. I'm sure MySpace was evil for HER because she was compulsive or something and HATED me (she went on a date with my boyfriend several months before he met me... weird story). She made my life miserable by somehow finding my husband on MySpace (we were going through the divorce process) and she friended him and then would tell him lies about me to get him mad enough to come over to my house pounding on the door and screaming.

So that's annoying.

But that could happen offline or on any other website, too.

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Charlotte
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posted July 20, 2008 07:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Charlotte     Edit/Delete Message
There is positive and negative energy in whatever we do here on earth.
The key word to remember is, balance... :-)

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LEXX
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posted July 23, 2008 01:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
Yep.
It isn't what I'd expected.
More trouble than pleasure usually.
Facebook is worse.
Maybe OK for networking but for friends...
e-mail is better.

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ghanima81
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posted July 23, 2008 07:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ghanima81     Edit/Delete Message
Char,

Yup....

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Thethirdbenjamin
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posted July 23, 2008 10:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Thethirdbenjamin     Edit/Delete Message
Myspace code doesn't seam to be as secure as facebook.

There are so many hacks on myspace then facebook.

I rember when it became apparant on facebook they changed the code right then and there, were as with myspace it took some time.

Facebooks a lot safer and better.

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Charlotte
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posted July 24, 2008 03:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Charlotte     Edit/Delete Message
ghani! :-)

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katatonic
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posted July 27, 2008 08:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for katatonic     Edit/Delete Message
have to say i don't find anything evil about myspace! of course some people can get hurt in cyber relationships just like any other kind, but it's not myspace's fault, is it? it's a network, and largely used by people to advertise (free) what they do, meet up with people, etc. no better or worse than any other meeting place, really, is it? and if you come across someone from the past on myspace maybe the relationship is NOT better left dead!

i have to ask, moonchild, how did you know this person was visiting so often? the count goes up on my profile views but unless they communicate i don't know who's looking in?

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future_uncertain
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posted July 27, 2008 11:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for future_uncertain     Edit/Delete Message
I was wondering the same thing, katatonic. I know there are trackers, but from what I've read they don't work.

I like myspace and facebook-- I'm not the best at keeping contact with friends and family and this makes it really easy for me. I make it a point to only add people I actually know (either from online sources, like here or irl.) I have no use for random adds.

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SunChild
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posted July 28, 2008 08:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunChild     Edit/Delete Message
I can see I was just projecting.
Because I had an odd experience with it I asume it can't be a good thing. Well of course it can.
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MoonWitch
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posted July 28, 2008 08:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MoonWitch     Edit/Delete Message
I use a tracker that tracks IP addresses. It won't tell you what MySpace profile is visiting your page but you can figure out some IP's a few ways. The tracker will tell you what time someone visited, their IP and the origin of the IP. If someone leaves you a comment or sends you a message on MySpace at the same time then you can put 1+1 together. So if you know someone lives in, say, Melville, Wisconsin and they leave you a message at 1:12pm and then you go to the tracker and someone visisted at 1:12pm from Melville or a town close to Melville then there ya go! If their IP is static and doesn't change then every time they visit from then on you will know even if they don't message you.

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koiflower
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posted July 29, 2008 08:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message

does facebook have tracking ???

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LEXX
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posted July 29, 2008 08:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
How do I use a tracker?
Thanks!

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Thethirdbenjamin
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posted July 29, 2008 07:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Thethirdbenjamin     Edit/Delete Message
Facebook does have a way to track people who looked at your profile, so its a tracker in its own way.

But i'm not to sure if's still works facebook is changing there codes once again.

I'm not a fan of facebook applications, some of them can track information from your facebook profile.

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