2008 Woodie Awards
The MySpace Devolution
Karmina Landicho
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: Opinion
I was introduced to a simple Web site five years ago that an acquaintance asked to reach me on as if it were my phone. This site was only something that the "cool kids" in my school knew about and used.
It is now well-known as MySpace, and it's taking over the world.
Through communication, the world has gone through the telegraph to telephones and answering machines, to television and then to computers.
Now there's MySpace.com: a technology all its own. Are you looking for music? Just log into MySpace, and the list will be
never-ending. Are you looking for videos or just friends to talk to? MySpace is your answer; here we can find it all.
Before we know it, instead of logging on to the computer to do research on campus, we find ourselves lurking on MySpace while the librarians come around and scold us for doing so.
But, we can't help it. MySpace has become a horrible addiction and it must be broken.
Trust me, I've deleted my account twice, and a couple of months later I'm back at it again, adding picture comments.
We've just spent too many hours wasting precious time, staring into that computer screen.
In fact, a depressing study found on searchenginejournal.com states that MySpace.com tops all other Web sites in the percent of total time spent online by people in the United States. While Yahoo.com comes in second with 8.5 percent, Myspace.com beats all others with a whopping 11.9 percent; AIM.com comes in last with a mere 0.2 percent.
If you haven't changed your mind about it yet, let me taint those thoughts: MySpace has become so huge that it's about to take over the television set as well.
Last week MTV premiered a show called "MySpace Forum: A Presidential Dialogue."
This episode focused on presidential candidate John Edwards.
Throughout this show, members of MySpace can log onto their page and instant message the host to question politicians on the spot.
Though after watching an hour too much of it, I finally wondered what this world has come to, pondering if this is really the sad lives we've been meant to live.
Is having the luxury of being able to go from the internet to the television separately to entertain ourselves not enough?
How has this world come to the point where we actually have to put the two together for a little more satisfaction in our lives?
Well this is just the start.
Before we know it, Yahoo will start to take over news broadcasts. This world still needs a lot of change, and the expansion of MySpace.com is not the answer to a positive revolution.
We need to get off of that computer chair and spend our time in the real world.
Together we can provide aid to issues that are really hurting our people.
Writing about it in our daily MySpace bulletins or blogs will not cut it.
Word of mouth can only reach so far, because it is the people's actions that make a significant impact in the world today.
It is now well-known as MySpace, and it's taking over the world.
Through communication, the world has gone through the telegraph to telephones and answering machines, to television and then to computers.
Now there's MySpace.com: a technology all its own. Are you looking for music? Just log into MySpace, and the list will be
never-ending. Are you looking for videos or just friends to talk to? MySpace is your answer; here we can find it all.
Before we know it, instead of logging on to the computer to do research on campus, we find ourselves lurking on MySpace while the librarians come around and scold us for doing so.
But, we can't help it. MySpace has become a horrible addiction and it must be broken.
Trust me, I've deleted my account twice, and a couple of months later I'm back at it again, adding picture comments.
We've just spent too many hours wasting precious time, staring into that computer screen.
In fact, a depressing study found on searchenginejournal.com states that MySpace.com tops all other Web sites in the percent of total time spent online by people in the United States. While Yahoo.com comes in second with 8.5 percent, Myspace.com beats all others with a whopping 11.9 percent; AIM.com comes in last with a mere 0.2 percent.
If you haven't changed your mind about it yet, let me taint those thoughts: MySpace has become so huge that it's about to take over the television set as well.
Last week MTV premiered a show called "MySpace Forum: A Presidential Dialogue."
This episode focused on presidential candidate John Edwards.
Throughout this show, members of MySpace can log onto their page and instant message the host to question politicians on the spot.
Though after watching an hour too much of it, I finally wondered what this world has come to, pondering if this is really the sad lives we've been meant to live.
Is having the luxury of being able to go from the internet to the television separately to entertain ourselves not enough?
How has this world come to the point where we actually have to put the two together for a little more satisfaction in our lives?
Well this is just the start.
Before we know it, Yahoo will start to take over news broadcasts. This world still needs a lot of change, and the expansion of MySpace.com is not the answer to a positive revolution.
We need to get off of that computer chair and spend our time in the real world.
Together we can provide aid to issues that are really hurting our people.
Writing about it in our daily MySpace bulletins or blogs will not cut it.
Word of mouth can only reach so far, because it is the people's actions that make a significant impact in the world today.
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