Myspace

Myspace used to be where I kept in touch with Benny and Josh's gang from school - Ari, Steve, Amanda, Erika, etc. Facebook was where I kept in touch with people from Berkeley. I have never "friended" a person on either without having met or talked to them first, unless through some random strange connection. When I met a new person, I would usually wait til we'd met three times before I officially asked them to be my myspace friend (unless, of course, they asked me first). I figured three times was enough that we'd had conversations and that they would remember who the hell I was. And hopefully like me.

Now, though, having moved to a new city, myspace has taken on so much more significance in my everyday life. Everyone I meet I wanna find on there. And actually use it as a means to communicate. So they remember me. So they wanna be my friend.

Today, I was at the AIDS Walk and there was a group of three girls walking ahead of me. They couldn't have been older than 13, and I would guess they were around 10. A woman snapped a promo picture of them walking. One of the girls said to the woman "can you send that to my myspace?"