You know what's wrong with myspace? Here's the list:

• Blinking gifs


• Songs playing automatically on pages (songs that usually suck


• Comments left that include a graphic that doesn't get scaled down so now your page layout is all screwed up


• Backgrounds that make it impossible to read the text


• Text that you have to highlight to read


• Pages with 20 Youtube videos all playing at once


• People who use comments instead of email when asking personal questions


• The WORST blogging software ever made


• No widgets, gadgets or whatever else you want to call them


• Friends who thought that hot chick about to take her top off video that got sent to them would be so good that when they clicked on it and "myspace"said "oops you've got to be logged in to do that," they went ahead and "logged in" and gave their password to some place that is now spamming me with Macy's gift cards, deals on marijuana, and telling me that size does matter.

That's just the short list too.

So I shopped around for my own web presence, one that I can be social with and customize without all the mess. Word Press was my first choice. I like Word Press a lot and am using it for other ventures, but I haven't learned enough about style sheets to take full advantage of it yet.

Then I came across Windows Live Spaces. I was pretty skeptical, because Microsoft hasn't exactly been batting 1.000 lately. Vista is a nightmare, and does anyone actually own a Zune? For all its faults, Microsoft does get a lot of things right, like the XBox 360, Windows Media Center, and now I can add to that list Live Spaces.

Spaces does have social networking features, but it looks a lot cleaner then any mypsace page. It's also more customizable. Myspace doesn't let me add widgets, or as Microsoft likes to call them gadgets. These little apps that you add to your page can do anything from showing you the weather to letting you play mini-video games. I've opted for using them to show my Xbox360 gamer card, the books I'm reading, and some other things I'll add soon.

So I'll try Spaces for a while and see if I continue to like it. If it turns out I don't, I can easily keep this page and create another blog somewhere else and post to the same entries to both. So you all keep your silly little myspace. It's so 2006.