My Space

I have a My Space page; have had for some time now. Here's a link if you're curious - http://www.myspace.com/ljodamron - I did it at the request of a dear friend who needed a visible form of loving support during an ugly custody battle within her family. She even set most of it up for me. My daughters couldn't believe it when I told them I had a My Space page - my youngest thought that was just a little too cool for her square peg of a mother. I don't blog there as I had already established a blog here. Not that my blog is incredibly thought-provoking, world-changing, or setting any land speed records, but I do have a handful of regular visitors and would prefer to not bother with changing blog addys. I suppose if I didn't have anything going on in my life I could keep two blogs, but because I'm typically up to my eyeballs with life itself, that's not going to happen.
The thing that I don't understand is why anyone would want to be my friend. I'm so incredibly vanilla, as ordinary as ordinary can get. I suppose that authors want to get the word out about contests, websites, etc. in order to cast light on their books, so they are eager to "friend" everybody. Now that I can understand and appreciate - I am always happy to hear about new books and new (to me) authors.
The requests that always leave me grinning, if not actually laughing out loud, are the ones for nudist groups, porn sites, long-legged women, and the most recent one I received, from a guy whose interest seems to be in the advancement of bare breasted women. These people obviously haven't seen me or they would be ripping those invitations right back out of my cyber hands. They simply can't know the havoc that gravity, childbearing, surgeries and fun living have wreaked upon this body! I am coming up on 6o friends, which is just crazy. I turn away those who are simply too bizarre, and have even deleted one person after a virtual onslaught of jokes and rambling stories.
Do you think that some people see My Space as a sort of popularity contest? Whoever has the most "friends" wins?
I hope everyone has a great week - I'm going to buzz over real quick and see if I have any new friend requests . . .

Laurie :)