Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace

mattsucks writes to tell us that according to AdAge, retail behemoth WalMart is trying desperately to target the MySpace demographic with a new, and highly sanitized, site designed to appeal to teens. From the article: "It's a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to 'express their individuality,' yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to e-mail one another. Oh, and it calls users 'hubsters' -- a twist on hipsters that proves just how painfully uncool it is to try to be cool."

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Re:AdSpace

[BrynM]

Also, you can just tell that when this guy above said "(shirtless boys)" he paused for 10 minutes to have one major furious wank. Don't wack your monkey too hard man.

Leave me out of your fantasies, please.

Re:Grammar Nazi...

[tumbleweedsi]

First off, it is spelling rather than grammar. Secondly, 'trys' is a perfectly acceptable word in another context. The England rugby team often scores more trys than the opposition. Are you by any chance an american? If so, and I am not trolling, please refrain from commenting on a language you do not understand.

sounds christian

[ajs318]

This just sounds totally christian! Notifying your parents?! Restricting you from contacting other people?! This site will go down like the name "The New Yardbirds"! If it doesn't fall down under the weight of its own stupidity, someone is bound to push it over. That, if it happens, will undoubtedly lead to moans of "evil hacker scumbags"; but the truth is, if you go out in a baggy suit with a squirty flower, a bright frizzy wig, a red nose and big flappy shoes, somebody's going to take you for a clown.

Re:Dear Jeebus

[Deluge]

I always thought it would come from Bush, Ballmer, or Bin Laden

In a way, it does. The catastrophe of Bush becoming president would strongly suggest to the marketing gurus at Walmart that there is indeed a (large, terrifyingly large) group of extremely ignorant, unthinking, mentally-deficient slobs who just might suffer from enough brain damage to actually respond positively to the Hub idea.

Ballmer is the man currently responsible for carrying on the legacy of one Mr. Gates, a man responsible for the dumbing down of computers to the point where people to whom MySpace, or indeed The Hub, seems like a good idea are able to invade the once pristine realm of cyberspace.

And Bin Laden's biggest contribution to the US's downward spiral has, of course, been to rally popular support for Bush so he got to preside over a further four years of America's decline, him and his administration seemingly striving towards the ultimate goal of having a population of 300 million people who chant in unison "Durrrr... terrorism... eeevil... kill" as Walmart looks on in anticipation of profit profit profit from people with brains so terminally softened by government propaganda and nationalistic stupidity that they're very much open to the suggestion that the Hub is the place to be.

Re:AdSpace

[BrynM]

I'm sorry but water is not a beverage.

Kind of late to the pary there... I answered that an hour ago.