November 8, 2009

A place for friends, MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. The social networking website is with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally.

After the 2002 launch of Friendster, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw its potential and decided to mimic the more popular features of the social networking website in August 2003. Within 10 days, the first version of MySpace was ready for launch. A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth and server capacity was available for the site, right out of the gate, so the MySpace team was not distracted with typical start-up issues.

The very first MySpace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users. The company then used its resources to push MySpace to the masses. eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to quickly breathe life into MySpace, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites.

MySpace operates solely on revenues generated by advertising, as its user model possesses no paid-for features for the end user.

The Chinese version of MySpace, launched in April 2007, has many censorship-related differences from other international versions of the service. Discussion forums on "inappropriate topics" are absent, and a filtering system that prevents the posting of "inappropriate topics" has been added. Users are also given the ability to report the "misconduct" of other users for offenses.

MySpace sounds like a pretty safe place as long as you don't post your personal information there because you don't know who might read it and another suggestion is not to meet up with people you meet on the Internet because you don't know who they are.

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