the myspace generation
This week I would like you to discuss the article "The MySpace Generation" that is linked off the weekly assignments page in our online classroom. Explore some of the online communities that are mentioned in the article. Then, choose any aspect of the article that appeals to you and zero in on it. That is, analyze one particular aspect of the article, using quotations from the article as illustrations for your assertion, and also hypertext, if you wish. (Try not to repeat what someone who posts before you has said...build a discussion). Thanks! :-)
posted by la professore at 9:09 AM
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ps I just posted the link for the article on the sidebar on the right.
In the past week, we have been assigned to view the article titled, "The Myspace Generation." Luckily for me, when I saw the title of this article I got interested right away, because it was something I could relate to, I used to have a Myspace profile. Now, after reading through the entire article, and hearing many different opinions and statements made I have decided to zero in on the aspect of blogging on Myspace to find out about different events, and why it appears to be such a popular promotional website among kids today. People on Myspace have profiles in which they can list their personal interests, whether is be the different kinds of movies they like, or different music bands, in which they can actually record that band's music and post it onto their profile for the world to hear. "Not so long ago, behemoth Myspace was this tiny. It was a website where musicians could post their music and fans could chat about it." Hearing this quote, it reminds me of exactly what we are doing in class, blogging. A discussion is posted once or twice a week, and then our class, as a community, chats about that topic. We kind of have our own little Myspace group. A current Myspace member talks about his profile in this article, and his different interests listed, and the amount of friends he has made through this website. "He has 4,973 'friends' on MySpace. At all times, he carries a T-Mobile Sidekick, which he uses to text message, e-mail, and send photos to his friends. Sometimes he also talks on it, but not often. 'I hate the phone,' he says." I found this quote to be quite ironic, because for someone with so many "friends" one would think that they would definetley be a phone person. So the real question is are this member's "friends" really his friends or are they just fellow bloggers that he has either found an attraction to, a connection with, or etc. So overall, i'm not quite sure how I feel about the whole Myspace community, I never really got fully reeled in, but there is obviously something about this website that has made 20.6 million users coming back for more.
TO: MsBarleycorn
I read your response to the blog, and I liked what I read. Like you, I actually had a Myspace account (which I don't have anymore), but I can relate to your comment that "Tom is just about everyone's 'friend.'" It is funny how "friends" are posted online, especially those through sites such as Myspace. There are always those people that are your actual friends from school, or work, but then there are those friends that you met through the website, whom you will probably never meet in person. I also agreed with you on the point that it was a very smart buisness move for Buzz Oven to promote their website through the more "popular" website. Although one could easily become very bitter at the idea of a website, other than their own, being more popular to others, Buzz Oven didn't let their "pride" come between them and their buisness, and they made a Myspace account in hopes of promotion.
In response to Sancho's post and ddd's reply the difference in writing styles was definately evident. Although it did not seem as formal, I could really level with the "Myspace Generation" article a bit more than some text book material. Our text book readings so far have been top notch interesting, however, and I hope they continue to be this way. One point on this subject I would like to make though. When reading an online article such as this, the reader should approach it more like a newspaper as opposed to some other, more laborous form of publication. With websites, postings such as this one are pounded weekly if not daily and one should expect quality but it should not be compared to something like a text book or novel. Just something to think about.
MySpace generation, I can read it as my SPACE generation: in space where all the airwaves for cell phones are fortunately invisible, but highly active.
Hope, I wish you didn’t stop at the putting foot in mouth, I am very curious now what you might have gone on to say. I’m afraid though that I’m a very guilty one when it comes to getting outdoors cuz I’m spending so much time on the ‘puter. Truthfully though, I’m not IM-ing (hate it) or digitally socializing – I’m busy with graphic programs or scouring the internet for information.
I’m a raving maniac when it comes to marketing invasion, so the article was hard to get thru. I did appreciate Hiler’s approach to the advert’s pressure, “when advertisers recently demanded more space for larger ads, Hiler turned the question over to Xanga bloggers, posting links to three examples of new ads.” Hiler did the proper thing in the order of what users might want. (I wish they’d ask at the movies who really wants to see those commercials, cuz I sure don’t.)
It seems to me the article was basically about how to sell to the new generation, how to invade their space. It did however, detail a teen’s profile in this electronic age. Something I heard recently about the young generation, with all the gadgets & computer/internet tangibility: how easily they can just click you off. Do you think that’s true?
My friends were so numerous inviting me to join Friendster… so I did. But I never spent much time in there, but I like ‘collecting’ friends in there & seeing our silly pictures.
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