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MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0 (Exhaustive Edition) - Valleywag
By now, everyone knows what MySpace is--or at least, they think they do. The generally held assumption is that MySpace is a social networking site: “a place for friends,” as their slogan puts it. In reality, MySpace is the next generation of marketing, advertising and promotion, exquisitely disguised as social networking. Simply put, MySpace.com is Spam 2.0. Full article on Valleywag.com >>
I have to admit - I’ve visited MySpace several times and always left with the feeling that I was just too old to “get it”. The pages I visited reminded me of 1996-era websites on Geocities.com—terrible tiled backgrounds, music playing, and junk just everywhere.
So I have to admit to a bit of a “humph” moment, reading this article on the background of MySpace. I’m am a bit impressed that a bunch of suits managed to pull off the creation of such a popular site for teens - that’s not what I would call the ideal internet success story (we always want to hear that some ambitious young folks did it and got lucky (ala Slashdot).
It’s an interesting read though - well worth checking out.
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