Myspace: No Thanks

I don’t have a myspace page. I know a lot of celebrities do. I don’t.

I can't. Not that I’m banned or anything like that, I just can’t allow myself to have a page. One time back when I was a lot more un-famous than I am now, I played around on myspace using a friend’s account. Before I knew it, six hours had fallen off the clock. Yeah, I had just spent six hours playing one stupid webpage. I spent most of the time trying to locate famous people on there, and another small portion of that time trying to decide if it was really them or some made up bullshit. The ones that are real will say: “This is the Official Myspace page of Paris Hilton” or whoever. Which is great, cause you can actually be friends with these famous people….through myspace. I found that almost everyone I was looking for was on there: bands, comedians, actors, filmmakers… you name it. They are on all myspace.

Then once you have “friends,” you can pick your top eight friends, and display them on your page. Basically saying: “I like these people more than you.” That’s just too much pressure for me. I couldn’t pick eight.

I was talking to a B-lister the other day, and he said that the thing he loved most about myspace was that it allowed him to feel closer to his fans. He believes that with myspace around, Fan Mail has nearly fallen off the face of the earth. Instead of writing letters like back in the good ole’ days, fans will just write compliments on their page. He can get back to them a lot faster through the site, and save money on postage. He made some good points, but I think they were more of excuses to why he wasn’t a big enough star to get real fan mail.

It is still surprising to me when I go to someone’s website looking for information, and all I find is a link to their Myspace page. I just wanted to see when you were playing a show in Los Angeles, now I have to listen your music, watch your videos, read your blog, and check out all your top friends. Fuck. I’m going get lost on this site for another six hours.

I will leave you with a list of some famous people I found on myspace that I did not expect to have an account:


Eminem – http://www.myspace.com/eminem

Jenna Jameson - http://www.myspace.com/jennajameson

Jon Favreau - http://www.myspace.com/jonfavreau

Lyle Lovett - http://myspace.com/lylelovett

Leonardo Dicaprio - http://myspace.com/leonardodicaprio

David Beckham - http://www.myspace.com/davidbeckham

Madonna - http://www.myspace.com/madonna

Marilyn Manson - http://www.myspace.com/marilynmanson

Tom Hanks - http://www.myspace.com/tomhanks

Willie Nelson - http://www.myspace.com/willienelson



Feel free to drop a comment with other unique celeb myspace findings.


AJ