MySpace is a social network site, used by all people of all ages (however mainly teenagers) to keep in touch with friends, and extend their set of contacts. Owners of “myspaces” can put up pictures, blogs, music and videos, as well as adding general information about themselves for the whole world to see. It is by far the most popular social networking site in the world, with less popular sites being “Hi5.com” and “Bebo.com”.
Each “myspace” has a friends area, where they can choose a select number of close friends to appear on their site under the title “Top Friends”. The number of these friends can range from 4 to 24, and people can even program their sites to not display any friends at all. Underneath said friends is a comments section, where accepted friends of the user may post a comment for people to read. Depending on how well you can program myspace, your comment can be all different fonts, colours, sizes, and even feature images and videos.
The personal customisation of a myspace helps to make it stand out from all others, and helps the users to feel that their myspace reflects who they are. There are various websites which offer tutorials as to how to edit a myspace, with some even going as far as to have readily selectable designs for you. As a result, no myspace is ever the same, much like the people they are representing. The astounding popularity of MySpace.com has meant the extension into various other countries, with the sites currently on offer as follows:
- MySpace Global
- MySpace Australia
- MySpace Canada (in English)
- MySpace Canada (in French)
- MySpace France
- MySpace Germany
- MySpace Ireland
- MySpace Italy
- MySpace Japan
- MySpace Mexico
- MySpace New Zealand
- MySpace Spain
- MySpace UK
- MySpace USA
Key concepts:
- Personalisation
- Reach
- Flexibility
- Non-linear
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