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| Myspace Homepage. |
MySpace is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. By late 2007 into 2008, Myspace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out main competitor Facebook in traffic. When Facebook launched new features in an effort to attract a variety of users, Myspace found itself in a continuing decline of membership. As of July 2010, the site was ranked 25th in Internet traffic,opposed to the 2nd position held by Facebook.
Profile customization:
MySpace allows users to customize their user profile pages by entering HTML into such areas as "About Me", "I'd Like to Meet", and "Interests".
Videos and flash-based content can be included this way. Users also have the option to add music to their profile pages via MySpace Music, a service that allows bands to post songs for use on MySpace.
A user can also change the general appearance of his or her page by entering CSS (in a <style> ... </style> element) into one of these fields to override the page's default style sheet using MySpace editors. This is often used to tweak fonts and colors and add a background.
There are several independent web sites offering MySpace layout design utilities which let a user select options and preview what their page will look like with them.
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| A plain myspace layout, without editing with html codes. |
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A myspace profile. As you can see it has been edited and the layout is a little different to the plain normal myspace layout. Music: MySpace profiles for musicians in the website's MySpace Music section differ from normal profiles in allowing artists to upload their entire discographies consisting of MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g. their own work, permission granted, etc.). This is a great way for musicians to show how good they are, this is a great feature of the site, and is very unique as Facebook does not have this feature and nor do many social networking sites. |
Bulletins:These are posts that are posted on to a 'bulletin board' for the user's MySpace friends to see. Bulletins can be useful for contacting an entire friends list without resorting to messaging users individually. Many users use bulletins to send event details for their friends to see, this may be a bad thing as friends you have who may not be invited to the event but see the details which may end up being a big problem. As, unlike Facebook, myspace have no 'event type' features on the site users find this the only way of saying the detailing or by messaging, but bulletins seem to be used more as they are sent to all the friends at once rather than selecting each friend when sending a message. Facebook has a sort of bulletin based feature but they are called 'notes' and are never deleted unlike bulletins that are deleted after 10days. So here Facebook is seen to be at an advantage over Myspace.
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| How a bulletin looks when you write one. |
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| This is how the list of the bulletins you have written look. |
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| This is what the list of bulletins posted by yourself and your Myspace friends looks like. |
Myspace on Mobile (App):
Like Facebook, Myspace can be accessed via mobile 'apps' that are downloaded onto the phone. It is free (apart from internet access) and is very popular. Like Facebook it is a more simplified version of the full site.
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| This is how the Myspace application looks. In the picture it shows how the homepage of the 'app' looks. |
Bibliography:
http://www.myspace.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
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