This question is for the hip kids among you.
The other day I'm lurking on MySpace as I do from time to time, checking up on the nieces and nephews back in the home country, when I get an error message whilst searching for the eldest.
I never bothered bookmarking his page, just always look him up by name; but this time, no dice.
Obviously I have other ways of contacting kith and kin, but when I got the error message my first thought was, "Ah; maybe he's cancelled his account or moved on to Facebook." Of course he could have simply changed his searchability settings to avoid being found by aunties, uncles and other undesirables. But the fact that my first thought was that he'd cancelled his account, meant that my second thought was, "Is MySpace done?"
You have to admit the site is just a little bit 2004, punk-rocker-with-flowers-in-my-hair. We're all a bit wise now to the ways of seemingly innocent, amateur, DIY ingénue singer-songwriters. The bloom even seems to have worn off ol' Lily Allen (cheeky thing, isn't she, and catchy tunes, but Gentle Reader will understand if her line, "Just cos you're old you think you're wise" grates on our nerves a bit).
That said, I'm actually a fan of Miss Allen. But now that she's launched herself I think she'd better come up with a new record, or she'll go the way of Sandi Thom. And my nephew.
Where the sam hill is he, anyway?
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