mercedo's Journal: MySpace Age

I noticed some of the User of MySpace com deliberately made a false statement as to their age. We could see sometimes a woman whose age is 99 years old but the real one is much younger. In the case of 99 years old, we usually notice the User has been making a mockery of us and we'd better not take their statement too seriously. But there are some cases we are unable to tell whether their statement is right or false if both two different ages are likely.

For example some User express their age as 49 at first and later in their profile in detail their age was 16. Either two cases are likely so we were just unable to decide which is correct.

In their first profile their ages are automatically renewed according to their birthdays and month, year. We don't have to change our age and age changes when their birthdays arrive. So what would happen after 50 years, after 100 years from now? Probably my age will be 95 years old, 145 years old automatically. Age counting in MySpace com doesn't make allowances for our real age, but keep on indicating how many years will have passed since our birthdays.

That is called 'MySpace age'. We were able to acquire eternal life on MySpace. Our age will last forever!

It is not so different than here, really

[GeckoFood]

MySpace allows their users to post all kinds of false information on themselves without verification. If I wanted to go on there and pose as a 14-year-old girl I could do that and if I was careful and talked correctly, no one would know. The same can be done in almost every online community, including slashdot. There have been a few people here that have come out and said they were exactly the opposite of who they portrayed themselves to be. In that regard, you could live forever *everywhere* on the net. :-

Re:It is not so different than here, really

[mercedo]

When we make an account we need to fill out our birthday. It is our choice whether we give a false information as regards our birthday though we didn't know how our birthday will be used to indicate our age in our profile. I remember I was surprised to see my age when I saw 'my' profile first. And more interestingly, the way of counting does not care how old actually we will be. I mean counting ages does not automatically stop in our natural consequences. I mean counting will continue 50 years, 100 years fr

Re:hosed

[mercedo]

I'm afraid that they are not protesting. I think it's completely their freedom as to how they address what they are. What they really are is another matter. Basically they can proclaim whatever they want. It all depends on whether or not we believe.