I was signing up for a xanga site last night. I had to pick a username (and for the record, I didn’t sign up because someone had taken the usernames I had chosen, so I’ll do it today), then a password, and then enter my e-mail address. And then, as usual when signing up for something, you have to enter your date of birth, and they always give you those dropdown menus for the month, day and then year. I chose the month (7), then the day (26), and then I went to the dropdown menu for years. And for some reason, it starts at 1930. Are there so many 70 year olds signing up for xanga and myspace that we need to give them their own year on the dropdown menu?
“Mom, look, grandpa sent me a message! OMG, he lawled!”
Come on, there’s no 70 year olds using myspace, and if they are, they’re doing it because they wanna keep in touch with family, but how are they gonna type with their arthritus? Could you imagine your grandpa’s myspace page? His profile song would be “Pennies From Heaven” and all the videos on his page would be from Andy Griffith and Johnny Carson. And of course, a pic of Marilyn Monroe. I think that would actually be pretty awesome, and what if your grandpa actually got more friends than you?
“My grandpa has more myspace friends then me.”
That’s just sad. When you can’t compete with a near to dead man on myspace for friends, then maybe there is a reason to be a myspace emo. I guess what I’m getting at, is that I think it’s ridiculous that the dropdown menu has 1930 as an actual year that you can choose.
That, and that it takes them about 3 times everytime I get a shot for them to find my veins.
M@rk
