MySpace.. My Blog...still public domain!
After reading Trent Lapinski's article, “MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition),” I still don’t understand what the big deal is! I now know that there was some sketchy business planning and debatable elites of the company, but they can't be that dumb, seeing that they have developed what now is a multi-million dollar business that
”everyone and their dog want to be a part of it."
MySpace is a social networking website that puts me in contact with new friends, old friends, work associates, acquaintances, family relatives, "friends of the family," and even people across the world that I’ve never met. It also features interactive network of blogs, photos, music, videos and personal profiles.
Call it a "marketing scam" for internet Spam, spyware, adware, advertising, etc... I don't care. It allows me to network and be in contact with people that I probably would never have heard from again if it wasn't for MySpace. And plus it FREE.
So, of course there are going to being pop-up ads all over the place. Add dollars are virtually the center to all businesses. When we watch TV, we are constantly being interrupted with commercials right? What's the difference?
Web 2.0 is the new Web 1.0. It "represents" or refers to a "second-generation" of Internet-based services. Web 2.0 features communication tools and social networking sites that allow people to network, share and transmit information online in ways that were never possible beforehand. It marks the end of the soft-ware adoption cycle and the beginning of using the Web as a platform to combine information and features from independent developers. I think that is genius!
I don't feel threatened, violated or invaded by MySpace's "marketing scheme." I have the option of never looking at the site again, or looking at it every hour. And plus, seventy percent of the mail that I get from MySpace is friend requests, not ads. And the ones that are junk are not even a fraction of all the other junk mail I get. It’s simply click in the box and press delete or by a spam blocker if it is just unbearable.
Fake MySpace accounts are stupid. I'm never going to do a search for pop icon Jessica Simpson and expect it to be her! That's not my individual purpose for signing up to MySpace. And that’s all I have to say about that particular aspect.
MySpace services to me, represents unity in our society, in my opinion. This so-called “Spam machine” is in essence, unifying people across the world. Granted, there are always going to be the people who try to spoil the fun for everyone else and create false accounts or whatever. But I know that my friends are who they say they are and that's all that matters to me! The elites can rack in all them money they want as long as I can stay on as a user and not have to pay a dime.
At the same time I think it is important to maintain proper etiquette and set your own ethical standards. Another words, it is solely the users responsibility to protect themselves on the Internet. As we know the Internet is a world-wide enterprise and whether your logging into your bank account, email or photo gallery, realize that, all of your personal information is now "fair game" to anyone and everyone.
MySpace is no different. I think the concept is clever, though probably preconceived by Friendster, an overall great idea. So, yes, I give MySpace.com the ownership of all of my pictures, information and messages. You know why? Because I will never put something on my page that I think misrepresent me, or presents me in a way that is distasteful or misleading. If I found that something in particular, was too personal or inappropriate to be in "the public media," I wouldn’t dare put it up on the Web. That’s just pure ignorance at its best
”everyone and their dog want to be a part of it."
MySpace is a social networking website that puts me in contact with new friends, old friends, work associates, acquaintances, family relatives, "friends of the family," and even people across the world that I’ve never met. It also features interactive network of blogs, photos, music, videos and personal profiles.
Call it a "marketing scam" for internet Spam, spyware, adware, advertising, etc... I don't care. It allows me to network and be in contact with people that I probably would never have heard from again if it wasn't for MySpace. And plus it FREE.
So, of course there are going to being pop-up ads all over the place. Add dollars are virtually the center to all businesses. When we watch TV, we are constantly being interrupted with commercials right? What's the difference?
Web 2.0 is the new Web 1.0. It "represents" or refers to a "second-generation" of Internet-based services. Web 2.0 features communication tools and social networking sites that allow people to network, share and transmit information online in ways that were never possible beforehand. It marks the end of the soft-ware adoption cycle and the beginning of using the Web as a platform to combine information and features from independent developers. I think that is genius!
I don't feel threatened, violated or invaded by MySpace's "marketing scheme." I have the option of never looking at the site again, or looking at it every hour. And plus, seventy percent of the mail that I get from MySpace is friend requests, not ads. And the ones that are junk are not even a fraction of all the other junk mail I get. It’s simply click in the box and press delete or by a spam blocker if it is just unbearable.
Fake MySpace accounts are stupid. I'm never going to do a search for pop icon Jessica Simpson and expect it to be her! That's not my individual purpose for signing up to MySpace. And that’s all I have to say about that particular aspect.
MySpace services to me, represents unity in our society, in my opinion. This so-called “Spam machine” is in essence, unifying people across the world. Granted, there are always going to be the people who try to spoil the fun for everyone else and create false accounts or whatever. But I know that my friends are who they say they are and that's all that matters to me! The elites can rack in all them money they want as long as I can stay on as a user and not have to pay a dime.
At the same time I think it is important to maintain proper etiquette and set your own ethical standards. Another words, it is solely the users responsibility to protect themselves on the Internet. As we know the Internet is a world-wide enterprise and whether your logging into your bank account, email or photo gallery, realize that, all of your personal information is now "fair game" to anyone and everyone.
MySpace is no different. I think the concept is clever, though probably preconceived by Friendster, an overall great idea. So, yes, I give MySpace.com the ownership of all of my pictures, information and messages. You know why? Because I will never put something on my page that I think misrepresent me, or presents me in a way that is distasteful or misleading. If I found that something in particular, was too personal or inappropriate to be in "the public media," I wouldn’t dare put it up on the Web. That’s just pure ignorance at its best
posted by Juli at 2:53 PM
1 Comments:
Good post. Great tone and integration of material.
However, I'm wondering why you didn't embed any links? At least to the article you're discussing?
A few thoughts:
"It allows me to network and be in contact with people that I probably would never have heard from again if it wasn't for MySpace. And plus it FREE."
Well, free in the sense that broadcast television is "free," at least.
"And plus, seventy percent of the mail that I get from MySpace is friend requests, not ads. And the ones that are junk are not even a fraction of all the other junk mail I get."
I think the concern is that a healthy chunk of that "other junk mail" is a result of MySpace selling your preferences and email address to third party spammers (often owned by the same people that own MySpace, wee the concern).
But you are absolutely right, you can hit the delete key a few dozen times and be done with it, it's just the cost of having space of your own.
I absolutely loved the way you concluded the blog. YES, responsibility lies with the user. Which makes me wonder, how would users construct their profiles differently if they thought of them as an application for spam? Just a thought ...
Good job.
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