Friday, November 2, 2007

Summary

I think my summary of my Myspace interaction less resembles a synopsis of things experienced over a 6 week period,l but rather represents the standard set of experiences for millions of people across the globe daily.

I generally keep my profile up to date; I comment on my friends pages every now and then; I’ll check out new photos and read new bulletin posts; and I feel that my profile represents me without going into the nitty-gritty. But it has not taken me away from my “real life”, as critics would suggest

Ultimately Myspace enhances my existing relationships, but doesn’t not form the basis of any new ones. It’s a tool to help continue and build upon existing friendship, nothing more.

Although it has the ability to create connections with those otherwise un-connectable, in my experience, it generally isn’t used in that way.

But as online social networking seems to be here to stay (whether on Myspace or not), perhaps the future will be more globalised, more interconnected, more socially networked.

And perhaps we will look back and say that Myspace was the catalyst.

1 comment:

some girl said...

Woo, your blog gets a comment!

I read all the posts... it was very interesting.
When I first opened my Facebook account I hated it because I had no idea how to use it.
But now I nearly like it more than MySpace.
The only thing that keeps MySpace on top for me is that I can make my profile look all pretty-like.