Monday, November 10, 2008
Myspace: its your life
According to Alex Williams in the article "Do you Myspace?",there about 27 million members that use myspace compared to facebook and friendster in 2005. Users of Myspace spend an average amount of an hour and 43 minutes searching the site. Myspace came out of the blue and has surpasses hits on google pages and has a 400 % growth from the start of the year. On the site you can make a page and customize it anyway you want but no vulgarity or pornography is on the site. Many teens are attracted to Myspace then other friend making sites because of the customization and how easy it is to make friends and add them to chat. Myspace was very innovative with their customization aspect. you could put any picture you want in the background and make certain fonts, different things you can add like when the cursor is over something it change color. Myspaces' tag line is "A place for Friends" which is very true. Many High school children make a page just to add friends and beef up their page.
Many people use Myspace to connect More with people like the artist fro the article, "Keith", posts about where he is playing and people log on and check where to go see him play. This is very convenient for people to click and find what they need instead of finding some site that has a list or flyer's, or even find out from a friend last minute. Now more people can know where something is going on and when with just logging into Myspace and looking at someones page.
Currently, I see Myspace as being for high school kids more then teens and adults.
Since 2005 I personally have switched from Myspace to Facebook because more of my friends are on facebook more often then myspace. Facebook is more for college students and schools because you can look up which school you are looking for and find a friend that way.
Myspace has opened up a world for people to become friends that are in totally different areas of the world. Many people are "bored" and want something to do, therefore they go online and find sites that connect you to people that have the same idea. On myspace you can search your favorite band and for free, listen to a few songs as well as write something on the artists page. Even if you are an unknown artist you can search for a genre and find some new music to listen to. Many people are on Myspace for long hours instead of going out into the real world. This may in turn ruin peoples lives because people will be cooped up in their room all day and they aren't getting out to see the world.
