Wal-Mart Launches Lame MySpace Competitor

Retail giant Wal-Mart wants to get into every business on earth, it seems -- including the social networking business. The company launched a COMPETITOR TO MYSPACE called "The Hub" -- a social networking site for teens. Unlike MySpace, however, the site notifies parents when their kids join and doesn't let teens e-mail each other (doesn't sound like a very social network to me). Wal-Mart censors any video posted deemed "profane, disruptive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially or ethnically-motivated, or otherwise objectionable" -- which is the stuff MySpace is made of. Everything posted on the site is shown to parents, who have the option of deleting it. Wal-Mart fully reveals its delusions about who might use the site and how they might use it with four sample posts -- obviously designed by middle-aged people who have never seen a teenager before. The URL is incredibly lame, too: http://walmart.com/schoolyourway