My Space.com
About
MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Originally inspired by Friendster, MySpace quickly grew to become the world’s largest social network, before being overtaken by Facebook. User pages are highly customizable and support integration with widgets such as Slide or YouTube. MySpace provides users with a way to connect around content and culture. MySpace was started as a side project of the internet marketing company eUniverse (now called Intermix Media) in August 2003. Brad Greenspan, then founder and CEO of eUniverse oversaw the project, which was also led by Chris DeWolfe (later CEO), Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson. It officially launched in January 2004 and went through a major redesign in 2007. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media, which is owned by News Corporation.
Review
MySpace has many features which are particularly attractive to tweens. It has moods, Blurbs, blogs, multimedia, "About Me," "I'd Like to Meet," and "Interests." Videos and flash-based content can be included. Users also have the option to add music to their profile pages via MySpace Music, a service that allows bands to post songs for use on MySpace. MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. The same capacity to personalize one's page also creates the potential for a very cluttered and busy appearance. MySpace can be a very dangerous place for tweens as there are grown people (who should know better) on the site posting unsavory content for all to see. There is an age restriction of 14 and up on MySpace. But the site does not actively enforce this age restriction. People over 18 are not supposed to be able to view the pages of those 14 and 15 years of age. However, anyone (be they 12 or 32) can set up a page claiming to be 14 years old.
Genre: Website, Social Networking
Warnings: Sexual content, language, perfect for predators
Advertisements: Yes
Target Audience: Age 14 and up
MySpace tends to be extremely popular with tweens and teens as it's easy to personalize and there are lots of graphics, videos and music.
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