PERSONAL PAGE PARTIES

Submitted By: Canuk Greg from Ottawa, Canada

I would like to voice my opinion regarding the trend over the last few months to have Personal Page Parties that are anything but personal. Gath gave personal pages so that people could have comments directed  to them and so that (originally) SUPPORTING MEMBERS could have a place to talk about themselves, show pictures and have a private place unique to them.

Initially, when the first 'page party' occured, it was directed at posting comments that would have some fun and relevance to the individual person whose page you were on.  Folks rarely posted more then three of four comments and the comments were always directed TO THE PERSON WHOSE PAGE WE WERE ON. In the past few months, people have picked up a tendency to spend countless hours on someone else's PERSONAL PAGE and post inane chatter about themselves or just talk back and forth to each other.  Do people ever ask themselves if they would want there own pagres DESTROYED this way?

Posting page after page of chatter (on someone's PERSONAL PAGE) where you only talk back and forth to each other is WRONG as far as I am concerned. Page parties have turned into cyber-vandalism. Ruining someone's PERSONAL PAGE just so you can talk back and forth between yourselves is WRONG.

What stated off to be a fun exercise directing specific comments at that individual whose page you were on has turned into a virtuak house invasion.

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I have to get my 2 cents in. I LOVE the personal page parties, and when I go out of town, I will beg people to party on my page! Although I've only been a member for a little over four months, the biggest draw for me was the spontaneous humor, the poetry and, yes, the inane chatter that some seem More...
04/Oct/07 11:53 PM
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Interesting discussion going on here. Thanks for opening it up, Greg. The consensus of opinion seems to be that if you would object to a party on your page, let it be known. No one will take offense. Personally, I would enjoy it. I have laughed out loud at some of the clever, over the top posts. I More...
05/Oct/07 1:35 AM
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Greg and I have been messaging back and forth, and part of one of my messages to him is pasted below because I think it is relevant to everyone:

...If future parties are only held with the express permission of the host, I don't think it really matters what - or how much - is posted. If More...
05/Oct/07 3:22 AM
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Thanks Jane, and that is all I was trying to point out. PARTY ON, but please do so in moderation. If people set rules then fine, but also use your common sense as to when enough is enough. As to the party on Dino's page, no booze and no hanky-panky (but I am sure someone will spike the fruit punch!).
05/Oct/07 4:20 AM
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If that is simply all you were trying to say, then why all the vitriol? Maybe if you had said something like that a week ago, it would not have engendered so much ill-feeling. Why couldn't you just have said you thought it had got out of control? To that I would have agreed.
I do not understand More...
05/Oct/07 8:18 AM
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Gail, as has already been mentioned, people around here are generally more apt to be quiet on an issue rather than voice disagreement. My guess is that mainly people don't want to cause offense, but sometimes they may also not want to start a heated exchange.
05/Oct/07 8:29 AM
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Gail, I posted this message on your page, but decided this was th place for it instead, so please feel free to delte my message on your page.....

Gail, there are so many different personalities that post on this site, and NO ONE (well maybe some persons) wants to step on someone's toes. My More...
05/Oct/07 8:43 AM
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Destroyed...vandalism...house invasion... garbage....hijacking....ruining someone's personal page....

This is the internet equivalent of anthropomorphization. What exists here is a random collection of electrons in cyberspace, totally ficticious and ephemeral, not a trampled garden or trashed house in reality.
05/Oct/07 9:11 AM
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As I stated Greg, I think a little word at the beginning when the party was announced would have gone a long way rather than it have come to this. I have no problem with people voicing their opinions, my ego can handle it. What I object to is this insinuation that I or anyone else would take it as More...
05/Oct/07 9:29 AM
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What's "right" and what's "wrong" seems to be a highly idiosyncratic, personal opinion. Saying that certain pages were created for some specific purpose and that other use is wrong is nothing more than than the arrogance of inflicting one's judgment (or more likely, desires) on More...
05/Oct/07 11:15 AM
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One good thing which has come out of this debate is showing us how a new forum page can be used to air and share opinions more extensively than is appropriate for the home page. Thanks for that Greg.
05/Oct/07 11:34 AM
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And my next bright idea is that when anyone wants to start a party, then they do it by creating a new forum page just for the party, and establishing any party rules at the same time. That way there is no danger of upsetting other sudokuists. Have fun and be kind, too!
06/Oct/07 10:13 AM
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well, what can I say..
Havent read the party on my page as yet.. not long home from holidaying.
#1 son ran me yesterday to say he was fixing my pooter, and that there was over 400 emails waiting for me.. my reaction was 'WHAT!!' I'm thinking JUNK emails... he informed me 99.9% of them was More...
06/Oct/07 6:06 PM
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Aha, I see a bone of contention in the daylight now, that I had missed earlier. The e-mail issue. I couldn't figure out what that was all about. Every time someone posts to your page, an e-mail is delivered telling about the posting. I had turned that feature off the first day my page opened up More...
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And who might notice this post?
21/Jan/09 9:15 AM
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Or care?
21/Jan/09 9:18 AM
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Oh my goodness - I did, Ian and the date!! 8 days ago. Sneaky.
29/Jan/09 10:35 PM
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And it appears that Rolanda didn't delete the comments on her page.
11/Feb/09 2:36 AM
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But every now and then, a comment does get deleted.

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