MySpace news sucks

I already hate MySpace because it’s a really, really bad application. But now they’re taking notes from another site I generally hate, Digg, with MySpace News. Except, in typical MySpace fashion, they’re doing it in a completely retarded, annoying and inept way, unlike Digg.

When someone links a site, through Digg, email, whatever, I want to go to that site. I don’t want a giant banner of the top of the page. But unlike other shitty sites that still do this, MySpace news doesn’t even give you the option to remove that damn frame.

If there’s a link on a site for http://www.whatever.com/blog/boring-post.php, I want to go to the URL http://www.whatever.com/blog/boring-post.php. I don’t want to go to http://news.myspace.com/toms-favorites/kitten_pictures/1230498712/.

It’s a flagrant brand push on content that isn’t even theirs. At least Google News, Yahoo News, and other sites that piss Sam Zell off, take you to the intended URL. MySpace just blatently steals content and slaps their branding all over it under the guise of “social news.”

I’m surprised the link icon actually even links to the intended URL, instead of the myspace page.

Boy, I can’t wait until they add another frame with annoying match.com advertising or talking “shoot the emoticon” flash ads.

Man I hate Tom. What a jerk.

Good thing the idiot “community” on myspace doesn’t give a shit about “news,” as evidenced by the lack of votes for the dumb stories on the news homepage.

At least every once in a while on Digg, you can find something interesting that doesn’t have anything to do with World of Warcraft, Steve Jobs, or Steve Jobs/World of Warcraft mashups.