social meltdown sites

Posted by John Kilroy May 10th, 2008

So much for social networking sites. I just tried again to update my MySpace site because last week when I tried to do it the site was so busy it just crawled to stop and I had to get off. This week - same story. I don’t know how much longer I can go on persevering with god awful websites, whose main goal seems to be the serving of ads rather than customers.

Why is it when MySpace churns to a stop (as it frequently does) that for a whole minute, while my browser waits for MySpace to decide if it’s too much trouble to actually serve the content I asked for, that nevertheless the adverts all appear. I know most of those ads originate off-site on different servers, but it still doesn’t seem fair, rather like getting stuck on the shopping channel, with only ads for comfort. And how come the ad companies can keep up with the traffic, but MySpace can’t?