Two blowhard idiots. One gets called on it, the other gets away because of bias in the media.

I find it incredible that the tech fluffers (Peter Thiel has a casting call out for “Personal Bitch” - I know Scoble and McClure have an app in, anyone else?) seem to think Facebook can do no wrong while whatever Myspace does is evil. Good old Michael “Low IQ” Arrington writes a post criticizing Myspace for accepting advertising revenue from CPG heavyweight Reckitt Benckiser. Wait, this is the same as having a sponsored group on Facebook. Arrington then pontificates:

If MySpace wants to be serious about addressing the issues facing its users, they should put up a non-sponsored resource. The function of Addiction411 is to sell more drugs, not necessarily to help users.

Cry me a river Arrington. If TechCrunch wants to help its readers stop being morons, why doesn’t it start a feature to tell its users about all of its conflicts of interest and all of the payola going on?

Arrington isn’t the only one who is guilty of treating Myspace like an Al Qaeda operative while assuming that Facebook is okay since it’s got an API. Tons of stupid A-list, B-list, and F-list (see Dave McClure) bloggers have given Zuckerberg and Thiel a virtual sexual favor but it’s time for the hypocrisy to stop. Let’s look at some important facts:

1. Myspace is bigger than Facebook. Myspace is at over 3x the page views of Facebook. That’s far bigger than the difference between the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Also, don’t give me your b.s. explanation that Myspace inflates page views. Facebook does the same. Logging in to read messages is annoying but it’s a nice way to drive up traffic.

2. Myspace and Facebook are both social networks. They are not saving the planet, they are not educating people, they are not improving the health of denizens across the world.

3. Myspace and Facebook are both businesses designed to turn a profit. Myspace does turn a profit. As for Facebook, it may or may not. Regardless, they aren’t a bunch of do-gooders despite the fact employees of the latter may prefer Conflict-Free Celery Sticks grown by workers paid over $25/hour in the San Fernando Valley.

4. Myspace and Facebook are slowly becoming the same thing. Ugly, ad-infested pieces of crap. I’m no fan of Myspace. I’m no fan of Facebook either. The growing number of apps are polluting profiles and while they may not cause epileptic seizures to small children in Tokyo, they do make me want to hurl. Do I really care about the Flixter app or the RockYou app or the DumbassU app? No. Neither do 99% of people. They install an app and forget about it.

5. The people who got Facebook started aren’t friends with any tech geeks. Fact: Facebook got its start by students at top educational institutions in the U.S. Fact: Tech fanboys joined Facebook far later and were quite late to the party. Fact: Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and other top engineering schools don’t produce tech fanboys. Their grads go do useful things with their lives. Fiction: Tech fanboys have attractive female friends or any real friends at all (see Scoble).

The message is stop treating Facebook and Myspace differently. They are both businesses looking to make a quick buck. Stop being so infatuated with the Valley b.s. and grow a brain.