Making the Most Out of Myspace

Myspace.com is one of the most revolutionary networking ideas to come along in at least twenty years. Everyone who is anyone has a myspace these days, and not only that: anyone who is REALLY anyone has at least five people pretending to be them on myspace (by my last count, there were five David Boreanzs and six James Marsters). There’s the bad, the good, and the just plain silly about myspace: bad, underage children exposed to predators and racy dating ads; silly: I think there was actually a big to-do recently about a “myspace wedding”.

Despite the loads of bad press myspace gets, there’s a lot a good that goes on there. With its unique combination of email, blogs, page creation, instant messaging, bulletins, (sending out announcements to those on your “friends list”), and the ability to comment on your “friends’” pages, myspace offers an almost unprecedented opportunity to connect and interact in ways previously unthought-of. For all those Sci Fi movies portraying people living their lives on the Internet, (Johnny Mnemonic comes to mind), myspace could easily be the precursor to such a society.

However, myspace is no longer just for “hip” kids looking to have some fun behind their teachers’ and parents’ backs, or for people trying to connect across long distances. Businesses and professionals alike are recognizing the networking power of myspace, especially with its two greatest selling points: it’s free, and very easy to set up and maintain. With the ability to update friends through the bulletin function, post announcements on a blog, and post comments concerning updates on friends’ pages, folks can get some quick and fast marketing, basically for free. Plus, unlike a free website at geocities.com or bravenet.com, or even a paid web domain, a page at myspace is guaranteed an audience, especially once you start building up a friends list.