Myspace: The New American Social Icon

Myspace the New Standard for Social Interaction

Myspace.com, the fastest growing website in the nation, has over 100,000,000 created profiles. It is the epitome of modern social interaction, it allows teenagers to talk to their friends (as well as the occasional pedophile), it allows upcoming artists to promote their work and has helped a lot of underground musicians get signed to major record labels.

It's an addiction, a highly developed way to come into contact with old friends, and also a breeding ground for an extreme amount of twisted internet stalking and voyeurism.

If you do a google search on myspace you recieve a grand total of 212,000,000 sites, if you google the keywords myspace and predator you receive over 1,200,000 pages. Myspace is in itself both a modern mecca of electronic socialization and an inherently evil form of communication. It has overtaken the internet as we know it.

There have been a multitude of stories I have recieved through interviews with myspace users about such things as: Getting turned down for a job because their prospective employer searched for their profile on myspace, read their blogs and decided they would not function properly in the position they had applied for.
Women in their mid-twenties having to change their profile age to pre-teen numbers, in order to prevent sexual predators from contacting them, and sometimes men being more interested in the fact that they are pre-teens.
People that I personally know have told me stories of being "watched" on myspace by old boyfriends, who in turn create false profiles in order to become their friends, and keep track of their every electronic-move. Watching and waiting, looking up their family members and becoming their friends only to harrass them and inquire about their old girlfriends new husband and children.