Why MySpace Is Cool

Posted on May 29, 2008
Filed Under Tips & Tricks

MySpace offers a lot of flexibility in terms of how you structure your profile, and what you put into it. Because you can put programming codes into your actual profile, you have a lot of latitude for creativity — as you’ll see when you browse or search profiles. So for example, you can play music and videos in your profile, or change the background colors, change the shape of the cursor, or completely rearrange the layout of your profile. You just can’t do this with many other social networking web sites.

MySpace is arguably the most popular social networking web site, with more than 80 million profiles, compared to Friendster, another well-known social networking web site, with 27 million profiles at the time of writing.

Another reason MySpace is so popular is that it gives you the freedom to express yourself without the limitations of other social networking sites, like Friendster, where there seems to be a focus on keeping things under control and nice, and users can’t customize their profiles quite to the same degree as they can on MySpace. MySpace has tapped into the alternative music scene, and so has attracted a hip, young crowd with profiles that are edgier and more diverse.

A quick browse of MySpace profiles demonstrates that users really are free to express themselves however they please. You’ll come across everyone from musicians, to bikers, to Goths, to pagans, to plain old computer nerds, and of course everyone in between. You’ll also notice that some people seem quite uninhibited online. With MySpace becoming a part of the News Limited media empire, the new management has made a push to clean things up, although of course MySpace is still relatively "cool".

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