NEWS: Mac Stores Cock-Block MySpace; Teenage Mallrats Grieve

GEEK: Mac Stores Cock-Block MySpace; Teenage Mallrats Grieve

For Pete's sake, can't you kids stay off of the MySpace for ten minutes? Is that really too much to ask? If you want to talk to your friends at the mall so badly, why don't you just go to the mall with your friends? And does the world really need another pensive webcam shot of your floppy hair? But no, apparently you can't handle that kind of self-control, and now Mac Stores have to go all Mom on your ass and put you on time-out.

Yes, MySpace – and only MySpace (thus far) – has been banned from access at Apple Stores, as a way to deal with a problem that has apparently been going on for some time now. It seems that kids would come into the stores and basically just screw around all day.

Personally, I find this mind-boggling. Hours! I'm assuming these are kids who either do not have computers at home, or whose parents are sick of MySpace and have blocked it there, but either way the end result is the same. Think of it like kids going into Hot Topic and taking pictures of themselves trying on new outfits for hours a day, not actually buying anything, but tying up space and merchandise for people who otherwise might have. If I worked there, I'd be pretty exasperated, too. Who needs it?

So yeah, I'm siding with Apple on this one. I mean really, there has to be something better to do out there than mull about Mac Stores and be obnoxious on the internet. That's what home is for. Now, get off my lawn!


_DictionaryGirl_ spent her last trip to the Genius Bar amusing herself with YouTube, but figures that, with a completely-fried hard drive, Apple owes her at least that much.

I can't imagine why someone would go to a mall with their friends just to go on myspace all day.

You'd think they would have a problem with teenage boys trying to go on porn sites.
But instead teenage boys want to go on myspace.

I have to agree. I side with Apple on this one too.
When my boyfriend was buying his Mac I tooled around on some websites that I frequent, but I was on and off before my boyfriend finished getting all the stuff together for him new computer. Staying there for hours is just a little too much.

What's the point of going out if you're just going to go on a computer anyway? It's less work to just sit on your ass at home. I'm a big fan off less work.

Dude, that's hilarious.

Why don't they just tell them to GTFO after 5 minutes?

Plus, myspace is such craptastic code that it makes whatever machine is running it look hellish. That's like test-driving a BMW in...well, a shopping mall. Of course the ride is going to feel bumpy when you keep crashing into Sunglass Huts and Hot Topics.

TELL THEM TO GTFO?!?!

GET OFF OF A COMPUTER THAT THEY HAVE YET TO PURCHASE AND CAN FUCK IT UP IF THEY WANT TO AND SUE THE OWNER OF THE APPLE STORE FOR HAVING A COMPUTER THAT COULD BE FUCKED UP BY SPILLING THERE RED BULL PISS ON IT!?

BE CAREFUL... THE POLICE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF FREE WILL AND PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY MAY BE READING!!!

PwwWWAAAAAHH!!! HA!! HA!! HA!! HA!! HAAAAAA!!!!

Teenage, mallrats are actually suprised about this?!?!?! AAAHHH!! HA!! HA!! HA!! HA!! Oohhhh.....That's good shit!!! ah heh heh heh...(Wipes tears) Whew! Oh! If only I can hear these brats complain right now. I actually, remember waiting about a half an hour one time, to try this one machine, that this kid was on. He spent the entire time just browsing MySpace AND watching rap videos at the same time. He actually had the nerve to look behind me giving me dirty looks as if I was doing something wrong. Funny thing is, that's a very common thing in the S.F Apple Store downtown.

It's about damn time it you ask me!!!

I never understood how MySpace became so popular when it manages to pretty much crash my browser anytime I visit a page that's been given content beyond the basic template.

Whoops. Repeat by accident. Sorry. I meant to press edit instead of reply but I was still laughing my ass off so hard, I wasn't paying attention. My bad, y'all.

Apple sells a wonderful series of models with functional caps-lock keys, you know.

"Git off my gad-dang computater, ya frickin' swooshy-haired kid's an ' yer emu-music!"

"But this music reflects the pain inside of me."

"I'll reflect th' pain inside of ya right upside yer ass after I tan yer ass raw with my cane! Git gone, ya pesky brats! Go use yer own 'puter!"

*Shakes fist in air with vigor*

Yeah I agree with apple too, at least now people who actually need to try before they buy can actually use the machines.

xx

This thread reflects the pain inside of me.

I want that job.

Have a cane, and an awful distaste for kids trampling your garden that you can transfer to elecronic goods and their test-services?

Even though I am not a Apple person, I do happen to walk by the Apple store at my local mall every now and then. The store is a utter madhouse. In another piece of irony the two stores next to the Apple store are: Bose, and Starbucks. Go Figure

Wow...I have a myspace, but I really do not understand how people can spend hours on that site. I can't find a reason to stay on there for more than a few minutes, if that. What is this world coming to? *sighs*

I'm definitely with Apple on this one.

Considering that the target audience of Apple's advertising are the very same demographic usually found at shopping malls, and that MySpace is one of the top sites for that same exact demographic, this isn't at all shocking.

It's been ages since I've been a teenager or even shopped at a mall so I really don't know if this will have an impact on their business in a completely different way -- in a sort of backlash by teenagers to purchase Apple products as a response to the MySpace ban. However, I may be giving the kids too much credit. Being the critic of youth that I am, I think they'll probably just end up forgetting about the whole thing and will move on to the next place -- their apathy and idiocy making them the stars in the next remake of Dawn of the Dead (brought to you by MTV of course), which they'll inevitably download to their video iPods from iTunes.

I believe the children are our future,
Teach them well and let them lead the way...

Other than myspace, what can you do in a store to "try out" a computer? A game's gonna take hours too and you can't really download stuff (unless you use a pen drive.)

"Hey look, if I move this thingie this other thingie moves. This computer is awesome."

Every computer store should have reclining chairs, a box of Kleenex, some lube, and a Hitachi Magic Wand on-hand in each of their stations. And the browser's bookmarklet should be pointing to all the hottest porn sites.

Porn is an unnecessary, antiquated notion of the 1990's.

Who needs porn when one can look at the revealing poses on MySpace?

So since only MySpace is the only site banned at this time, I can still spend hours looking at porn, I mean, my stocks in an Apple Store?

i was in an apple store today and there were a bunch of kids playing on the iMacs and the store manager gave them 5 minutes and EXACTLY five minutes later he went over and kicked them out of the store. i giggled to myself as I bought a brand new AirPort Extreem!!! im using it right now! im so excited. hehehehehehe im all giddy.

It makes me sad that there will soon be children who never knew a world without MySpace.