There are a lot of things I like about MySpace. The increasingly popular social-networking Website – although Facebook is quickly gaining ground – has allowed me to rekindle friendships with old acquaintances from as far back as grade school. It allows me to keep in touch with friends from Sacramento to New York. Posting silly videos and comments on each other’s pages is as close as we can come to cracking jokes with each other over a cup of coffee.

There is one thing in particular that I don’t enjoy about MySpace: the ability to know the current status of former girlfriends. Although the solution is simple – don’t check out their profiles – I often find myself unable to do so. I have two former girlfriends who use MySpace quite regularly. The first one lives down in Southern California. She puts up photos of herself half-naked and constantly talks about her sexcapades. I find it somewhat sad and pathetic and generally don’t give two cents. The only time I was annoyed was when she blogged about me and the last Valentines we had together. She admitted to me afterwards that she had made the story up to be funny, but I didn’t find the negative light I was shadowed in to be amusing.

The second former girlfriend recently moved to the Pacific Northwest. Of late, I have found myself dreading her profile picture. I assume it’s only a matter of time before there’s a photo of her and the new boy in her life. I know when the day comes that I’ll be pretty bummed out. Although the relationship was emotionally tiring and frustrating at times, she is an amazing person. Her beauty was always enough to stop me in my tracks and her heart is filled with love. I should be so lucky to find someone like her again and I still have days where I’m frustrated that it didn’t work out. I wonder how I will feel inside when the day comes that I see a photo of her happy with someone else.

When a relationship ends, we know that eventually the other person will find someone else. For me, in my daily life I dread the thought of running into that girl and her new boy at the grocery story or at Starbucks. On the Internet, although Web 2.0 has brought us closer together, sometimes that ability to view each other’s lives isn’t such a positive thing.

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