Profiles
MySpace allows any user to customize the layout and
colors of his or her profile, with virtually no restrictions.
As most MySpace users are not professional web developers,
this ability can cause problems. For example, many profiles
have clashing colors and/or unreadable text. Because
of this unrestricted customization of MySpace profiles,
some profiles have been known to freeze certain browsers,
such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, due to malformed
HTML and/or CSS or users placement of videos and/or
Flash animations on their profiles. In addition to users'
misuse of HTML and CSS in their profiles, MySpace itself
produces antiquated, inefficient and standards-incompliant
HTML.
A XSS vulnerability was recently revealed on Kuro5hin
in an article called MySpace: A Place for Dolts.
MySpace may cause problems for those susceptible to
internet addiction, and can cause "withdrawal"
when shut down for long periods of time, as was the
case during the 2005 Los Angeles power outage when MySpace's
servers were down for most of the afternoon and well
into the evening of September 12. |
