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Myspace is hilarious. Before it was just sorta like the High School "Let's see how many friends I can get" and funny messages, but has since evolved into this whole scheme of 'Top 8' politics. Arguments have been ignited, angry comments left, cities raised. All in response to the hallowed place among the best of the best on their 'Top 8'. It fascinates me very much to go into other's profiles and imagine the precise internal rankings, like an artist choosing the perfect running order of songs on their album.
I'd be a total hypocrite if I said that I hadn't given any thought or plan to my own 'Top 8' though. Back in the good old days (I'd also be wrong to say I was a true O.G., but it still won't stop me from pretending), we didn't get to choose our 'Top 8' like you whipper-snappers today. I remember Charisse bringing me into the fold and, after dropping Tom (I don't know...something about having the millions of "friends", it just comes off as a huge ego-stroke to me), she was my only friend for months and months, holding it down in the #1 slot. Even after racking up amigos/amigas near and far, somehow she always stayed in that spot, regardless of alphabeticals or anything. It was nice. I kept her there like my rabbit's foot when the new 'Top 8' came, harmonizing mine based on such criteria as:
~Charisse in the trad. #1 slot
~Randomizing 3 best friends for 2-4
~Famous person in #5 (Amélie)
~Random 3 best friends for 6-8
Happily now that we can do 'Top 1000's' now practically, it is slowly being diffused as such a hot moral issue. I roll with the dozen now, thereby erasing any lingering "Man...I'm not 'top ___' to him..." thoughts. I think. I hope. Though now my sister is on, so I had to change it all around again (wow she has such a "High School" profile, it's just great), come on... she's my sis...(sigh) so much for consistency.
I'd be a total hypocrite if I said that I hadn't given any thought or plan to my own 'Top 8' though. Back in the good old days (I'd also be wrong to say I was a true O.G., but it still won't stop me from pretending), we didn't get to choose our 'Top 8' like you whipper-snappers today. I remember Charisse bringing me into the fold and, after dropping Tom (I don't know...something about having the millions of "friends", it just comes off as a huge ego-stroke to me), she was my only friend for months and months, holding it down in the #1 slot. Even after racking up amigos/amigas near and far, somehow she always stayed in that spot, regardless of alphabeticals or anything. It was nice. I kept her there like my rabbit's foot when the new 'Top 8' came, harmonizing mine based on such criteria as:
~Charisse in the trad. #1 slot
~Randomizing 3 best friends for 2-4
~Famous person in #5 (Amélie)
~Random 3 best friends for 6-8
Happily now that we can do 'Top 1000's' now practically, it is slowly being diffused as such a hot moral issue. I roll with the dozen now, thereby erasing any lingering "Man...I'm not 'top ___' to him..." thoughts. I think. I hope. Though now my sister is on, so I had to change it all around again (wow she has such a "High School" profile, it's just great), come on... she's my sis...(sigh) so much for consistency.
posted by Healthy Obsession at 1:45 AM
2 Comments:
I don't know a thing about anything that you just wrote. I don't know anything about myspace... The high school references are funny though. High school itself was funny. We can laugh about it now, we're okay. I take it it has to do with "who is my best friend?" The book "Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day" talks about how Alexander is only someone's third best friend... is that about the gist of it?
hehe, i do myspace, but i don't really pay attention to my or anyone else's top 8. it just makes it easier to get to some people's profiles instead of searching through your entire list of friends :) by the way, i'll let you in on the word game mandy and i play. use the word provided for word verification and make up a meaning.
example:
qezpgox (k-ew-zee-pee-gocks)
a certain breed of peacock that has scales instead of feathers (thus inspiring the ew-zee)
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