myspace won because they could customise their profiles with arbitrary html – it’s a self-publishing platform, like geocities in the 90s, with a social-networking viral distribution mechanism.

myspace will be around for a while. the users will not get older, because new 14yolds will sign up

the only company that is poised to dent them now is piczo

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Is there any indication that MySpace is having longer term effects? I’m thinking about the potential for those same teens to develop portable communities that morph over time to take on board other forms of social software?

My sense is that this generation, if nurtured will pose an employment threat in the sense that they will select companies and organisations that satisfy their need to maintain and grow those social groups. As such they have the potential to acquire value way beyond their educational status but which is transferable to their economic lives.

I sense there is the potential for enduring effects that will not only change the nature of being a teen, but also the future of being employed for the first time.

What happens for instance if a teen is brought up on a diet of porn. It’s the industry quietly making the big bucks here. In the UK, we have TV shows dedicated to a youth I simply don’t recongise. We also have comedic porn shows beamed at us on late night Sky TV. As you say, today’s youth has no shame. And why should they when trhe very things that are supposed to be taboo to the rest of society are seen as part of socity by this group?

While there is nothing inherently wrong in that, I can see it radically altering the social mores attached to ‘work.’ It could well be a harsh awakening for more employers than employees.

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There’s also the case that was reported towards the end of last year… …

I do beg to differ about tribe.net, however. They actually just did a limited version of the same thing that Friendster did, but as a result, the site has been decimated. Of 58 friends on my friends list, only three log on there now with any regularity.

It is a total mess. There is no order and in my mind no point to the site. What does one actually gain from the site other than pages of people going ‘me too’, ‘rofl’, ‘you suck’?

We are in the year 2006 and MySpace has the design and usability levels of sites we saw back in 1997. Why on earth News Corp paid $500 million for the site I will never know.

But maybe I am wrong, don’t get it, and MySpace is this fantastic new way to share content and is the future of the web. I hope to all that is pure and good that is not the case.

I personally am not into myspace but my students at my highschool thrive off myspace…

when i was in highschool it was IM and ICQ (mostly IM)…but communication culture is changing dramaticly…hence this little note I feel compelled to share with a complete stranger…hum?

–RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

I’m curious as to how you would evaluate other sites like Orkut and Facebook within the framework of your essay.