MySpace EXPERIENCE -WEEK 3

I must in all honesty refer to my MySpace experience as not a very pleasant one. I have created a MySpace page previously (pre Facebook) so that I can keep in touch with what my then 16 year old and his friends were up to. The targetted age group of MySpace users was very clearly pointed out to me then when I was told in no uncertain terms that I am too old for MySpace and to “get off MySpace”. I quite enjoyed the experience of creating my first MySpace using one of the on line coding software programs and found it much easier then than I did this time around. The fact that I had a lot of trouble putting a background picture up for my new MySpace did nothing for my liking of this type of P2p communication. The format is not in line with my preferred set up because of exactly that; the format. I understand that you can pimp your MySpace in many different ways which can very quickly lead to lots of clutter as well as becoming cumbersome in that the page takes a long time to load. The pre-arranged formats that are available did not suit my style of what I consider a decent vehicle for my type of online presence. Perhaps I was bored with the concept of MySpace due to having played around with it previously which clouded my vision. I appreciate it is useful for teenagers to communicate their on-line presence although a quick survey of my now 19 year old son and his friends found that there is only one fronm about a dozen or so of his friends that have kept their MySpace up to date. Most of them now communicate through IM such as MSn and could not be bothered fiddling around creating a MySpace presence. Conclusion – MySpace is not for me, the target audience does not suit, the expectations in the format are not my preferred style and if I did create a MySpace page it would look very much out of place in the genre.