Glogster?

I’ve been pointed to a new “social network” called Glogster recently. It’s a site about making multimedia posters.

Do you remember when Facebook opened up to everyone? How we all said “Oh my god, finally. It’s like someone took the actual good parts of Myspace and did something with them”?

This is the opposite. Glogster rounded up all the worst parts of Myspace, the obnoxious colors, garish backgrounds, unreadable text, diatribes written in comic sans, autoplaying sounds and videos, without anything else. It’s all glogs (as they call them), all the time. Graphic. Blog.

It’s CS4 for morons.

These are the first few glogs I ran into, just hitting the “next” button.

http://cwalk3wayboypedro.glogster.com/a-i-g-b-g/ Oh god, it burns.

http://lightningthieffan17.glogster.com/my-happily-ever-after/ Emoteen is emo.

http://saveyourbreath.glogster.com/schizophrenia-brokencyde/ See above, now with more poetry and egomania.

Everything on this site is Flash based. The images, the text, the sound, the video. One hundred percent bad Flash.

The thing that amazes me most is I’ve NEVER heard of this site in the three years it’s been up. I know I don’t see everything on the net, but this is so bad, and a social network so artificial that word of it hasn’t even spread to Encyclopedia Dramatica. Think about THAT for a minute.