There’s a forum on social networking site Myspace where Best Buy employees share the dumbest things customers have ever said to them. They range from the “I probably should find another job:”
wheres the bathroom
Best Buy's Myspace Forum For Sharing Dumb Customer Stories
By November 14, 2007
MySpace Advertising To Become Much More Targeted
By November 5, 2007
“We’re looking at everything people put into their profiles and what their friends are into,” said Arnie Gullov-Singh, a Fox Interactive vice president.
Apple Store Blocks MySpace
By May 29, 2007
It’s a sad day for cheap vain people, the Apple Store has blocked MySpace. One can no longer hog the computers taking pursed-lipped self-portraits with PhotoBooth and uploading them to MySpace. Apparently, such people were clogging up the Macs for hours at a time.
Like, Cingular Friends MySpace
By December 19, 2006
According to Reuters, Cingular has cut a deal to offer MySpace on almost all of its cell phones. For a measly $2.99 a month, people not old enough to have cell phones, let alone MySpace profiles, can update photos, check MySpace messages, and update their blogs…all from their phones! It looks like the holidays have come early for internet predators!—MEGHANN MARCO
MySpace’s Racist Ring Tone Ads
By August 23, 2006
On one hand, it’s hard to believe that MySpace endorsed or even saw this advertisement for cell phone ringtones that it’s been displaying on their web page. On the other hand, this sort of big-lipped, bone-through-the-fro depiction of an African hasn’t been acceptable since some of Louis Armstrong’s more colorful Max Fleischer appearances.
The News; Myspace Eats Lead
By July 24, 2006
• Just make sure your kids eat the lunch, not the box. [ABC] “FDA Warns Lunch Box Makers About Lead”
Blogobitchin’!
By July 12, 2006
• This MickyDee’s didn’t realize that giving away free wi-fi didn’t mean just selling more milkshakes to kids playing Super Yoshi’s Disco Poophouse against each other, it also attracted homeless bloggers. You can’t have your honey-slathered butter biscuit and eat it too. [The Homeless Guy] “McDonalds: The Evil Empire Strikes”
180solutions’ Serves Up MySpace Spyware
By July 11, 2006
Just when we think that MySpace couldn’t sink any lower in our esteems unless a gigantic bottomless pit opened up beneath the corporate headquarters and the tentacles of Cthulhu him/her/itself coiled around it to drag it into the chthonic pit… MySpace starts infecting users with spyware.
The News Sexually Assualts the Senses
By June 26, 2006
• Minions of Cinderfella? [New Orleans City Business] “Transvestite crime gangs pester Magazine Street owners”
The News; Impotent Indignation
By June 21, 2006
• The news is not that a data breach at VISA had a data breach that caused consumer’s debit cards to get stolen, it’s that they’re actually finally formally announcing it. “Visa Says ATM Breach May Have Exposed Data” [CT]
Best Posts Ever, This Week
By June 9, 2006
A review of the week that was in consumerism, as determined by popularity contest.
Pith & Vinegar: Special Questions Edition
By June 8, 2006
• Are asking questions a copout from doing hardcore blogging? [The Consumerist]
Illinois Highschool Will Monitor Myspace
By May 23, 2006
Myspace is quickly becoming Theirspace. In so-called “Libertyville” Illinois:
Fuck Myspace, We’re Deleting Our Profile
By May 18, 2006
Tom is not our friend anymore. Neither is MAGIC CYCLOPS, ElectroBOOBIES, Larry TEE or Mr. Pacman.
Myspace the Secret Garden of Conmen and Spammers?
By May 1, 2006
According to these reports summed up over at Valleywag, Myspace isn’t a megatacular grassroots operation run out of a garage by “Tom” and his buddy Chris, but a multi-million operation created by the cons and insider traders of Intermix Media. Among their other business ventures were installing spyware on millions of computers. Chris and Tom were just the “cabin boys” or “poster boys,” the Valleywag source alleges.
Citi Thinks Diseases are Comedy Gold
By March 27, 2006
The unintentional comedy of the context ad bots strikes again.
