Myspace . Website for social interaction made up of personal user profiles that includes networks of friends, groups, blogs, photos, videos and music, as well as an internal messaging network that allows users to communicate with each other and an internal search engine.
Myspace (formerly written by the company as MySpace) is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake .
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Features
- 1 What can I do with Myspace?
- 3 Advantages
- 1 Disadvantage
- 4 Sources
- 5 External Links
History
Tom anderson
Chris DeWolfe
It was created by Tom Anderson , Chris DeWolfe and a group of programmers programmers (Tom appears as “friend” by default when someone creates a new account on the site. Hence some popular jokes that say “Not even Tom wants to be my friend). in July of the 2005 it was acquired by News Corporation, its growth rate is about 230,000 users a day. its headquarters is in California , United States and also has another headquarters and server in the city of New York , United States.
Such is the influence on the masses of this site, that many personalities in the world of cinema, music and politics have their space on this network, and upload their latest creations and thoughts to share them on their profiles with other users and so on. use Myspace as a form of promotion and direct contact with your followers.
It offers special profiles for musicians and its users use the service for various and different purposes, including communicating with friends or family, meeting people, for work reasons, how it has served for musical groups to make themselves known, so everyone has a profile on the page, being sometimes more visited than the real official page.
Myspace began to expand and gain popularity in addition to users slowly, to the point of becoming something out of the ordinary and a social revolution, especially in the United States where Myspace is the most visited website after Yahoo! , MSN , Google and YouTube and to the point where the majority of the country’s population knows the service and it is very common, especially among young Americans and teenagers, to be a user of Myspace. Currently the service is spreading worldwide and gaining users from other countries.
features
- Newsletters: theyare messages that are posted in a “newsletter box” for any friend of the Myspace user to view. They are eliminated after ten days. They can be used for contacts between all the friends on the list without needing to send messages individually.
- Groups:Allows a group of users to share the same page and message box. Groups can be created by any user, and the group moderator can choose whether any one is directly approved or if any requirement is required to belong to the group.
Myspace window
- MySpaceIM:It is an instant messenger that uses a Myspace account as a name on the web. The user enters it using the same email associated with his account. Unlike the other parts of Myspace, MySpaceIM is independent of Microsoft Windows . Users can use MySpaceIM as instant notification of new messages, friend requests, and comments.
Myspace profile
- MySpaceTV:It is a similar service to YouTube video sharing. It was created in 2007 and is under development (beta).
- Applications:In 2008 , My Space introduced an API where users can create applications for other users to bet on their profiles. The applications are similar to those of Facebook . In May 2008, Myspace added some security options considering interaction with photos and other functionalities.
- MySpace Mobile –Users can access Myspace content on their cell phone.
- MySpace News:It is a service that allows you to send RSS feeds or receive news. It also allows users to sort each subject by vote.
- MySpace Classifieds:Is the classified section of the MySpace, which was created in August of 2006 and grew by 33% in one year since its inception.
- MySpace Karaoke:Launched on April 29, 2008, ksolo.myspace.com is the combination of MySpace and kSolo, which allows users to upload audio recordings of themselves singing for their profile pages. Your friends can evaluate your performance.
- MySpace Polls: itis a service on MySpace since 2008 so that users can include polls in their profiles and share with other users.
- Other Services:MySpace Sports (Sports), MySpace Books (Books), MySpace Horoscopes (Horoscopes), MySpace Jobs (Jobs), and MySpace Movies (Movies).
What can I do with Myspace?
It allows its users to access all kinds of publication and communication services, offering hosting of images, videos and blogs, creating agendas and calendars, and managing contact networks.
After creating a user (through the ‘Register’ link located in the upper right part of the home page of the site) and entering a username and password, the user accesses their personalized page. On the left side of the screen there are direct links to edit the profile, the user account, the blog and the multimedia content.
Advantage
Myspace position
- It is good for trying to socialize.
- Do not pay web hosting expenses, belong to the largest community of online friends in the world and make contact not only with them but with famous performers from the world of music.
- It drastically lowers the barrier to entry by allowing users to start with a normal Myspace profile, and then add HTML and CSS code with relatively few limitations.
- It allows to play the music of popular bands on the user’s home page, legitimately, for free.
Disadvantage
- Too much spam.
- Too much publicity.
- Excessive use of bandwidth and Central Unit (CPU).
