Why the myspace phenomenon is comparable to the pet rock...

Ok myspace.com isn't as bad as everyone is making it seem in some fregin elementary school or on CNN. BUT, the sadder thing or the unbelievable thing about the whole phenomenon is that all myspace.com is, is a combination of the old geocities web sites and plain old message boards/email. It just goes to show you though, that combining web pages with social networking is worth fregin 680 million dollars, crazy huh? It also goes to show you that all you need is a really good idea, like a jump to conclusions board to be successful on the internet...

The other thing annoying about myspace.com and to me the only bad thing about it, is that people who aren't big time computer dorks like me don't realize that when they post pictures to it they are actually stealing a site's bandwidth. For example take this picture of me below to the right, the other one is of Hasselhoff hehe....

Other funny thing about myspace...

Say someone wanted to post this picture to the right for some God awful reason on their myspace.com pages. Well if they did that by just cutting/copying and pasting it into the myspace page they would actually be flat out stealing vanillaafro.com's bandwidth. They are stealing because they are not referring to the image on their server but on mine (vanillaafro.com)! This is a real pain in the ass for a computer dork like me, especially if you have pictures that myspace junkies like. Like for instance at my work, I have a bunch of concert/sports/theatre images on the server and all kinds of idiots copy and paste them into their myspace to the point that you have to change the image to something like this:

Now that's just down right mean, unless the people love David Hasselhoff, and you know there's a lot of myspace people that love him, especially those damn Swedes.

Technically speaking the nice way to deal with myspace people who do this is to use your .htaccess file. Like below:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer \"^http://www.your-domain-name-here.com/\" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer \"^http://www.your-domain-name-here.com$\" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer \"^http://your-domain-name-here.com/\" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer \"^http://your-domain-name-here.com$\" locally_linked=1
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer \"^$\" locally_linked=1
<FilesMatch \"\.(gif|png|jpe?g)$\">
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=locally_linked
</FilesMatch>

What this allows you to do is block people from using your images outside of your web site, I don't like this because I'd rather people have to look at David Hasselhoff or a guy screwing a mule or something (use your imagination...). But you get the picture...I'd encourage anyone who is getting their bandwidth stolen to replace their picture of 50 CenTZ with a guy screwing a mule, or maybe a bad joke like just a big picture of a Half Dollar....And of course you could always give them the infamous and classic..... Goatse.cx

Other pages on bandwidth stealing and how to deal with it:

JD Morgan the man at Htaccess has written a bunch of good posts on how to use it on Webmasterworld.com
Some other easier Bandwidth Stealer or Image stealer tips in a message board

Other funny things about myspace....

The other funny thing about myspace is that people have pages on there with so many pictures and ghetto bullshit that it takes about 3 years for even the federal government to load their pages. I mean we're talking full motion video of 50 cent, the entire unedited version of 8 Mile and below that if you have 2 months and a cup of coffee shouts to all their PeEpS and NiGGaz....

Now don't get me wrong I love to see people talking LiKe this to their Niggaz online....Mostly because it let's me reminisce about how I used to make AOL screen names like that in 1997, but it's not Fucking 1997 anymore people.......Anyone over fregin 16 talking LiKe this on the internet should go down to their local Pawn shop buy the biggest GuN they see and Shoot themselves right in the MoThErFUcking Headz Niggaz.

Sorry people or should I say pEEpZ...., but graffiti is for playground park benches, not the internet.....

Great myspace idea (or terrible)

Not only is this a bad joke but it also makes the myspace person who has an image of 50 Cent to look like a complete idiot who doesn't even identify with his/her hip hop community PeePz...(so dumb..)

place this picture of 50 cent on your web site for awhile until you see people from myspace stealing it, wait until a few put it on their MySpAcE pages...
replace the image of 50 cent with the same name as your image of 50 Cent and upload it to your web site

$\"50$

***below

$\"JFK$

***Sorry for not including the Dwight D Eisenhower half dollar, but I figured that JFK would be more of a fan of 50 Cent....But Cassidy will tell you I'm a stone cold bleeding heart liberal...