Myspace = Viral

By Daniel Miessler on February 7th, 2006: Tagged as Blogging | Culture | General | Social

Dude, what the hell is this myspace thing? I have gone from hearing about it once a couple of weeks ago to like three times a day — from completely unrelated sources.

One particularly poignant comment on how powerful this movement is:

“It’s so big that most of your friends are probably already on it. If you’re not, you’re one of the last ones.”

I didn’t believe that until I found out all my friends were on myspace — and I wasn’t.

Alas, I already have a blog and I’m not doing another one. If the cool people want to link to me they can use an href.

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Paul

Yet another way for us net-citizens to think we are really, really, hip-cool-special-individualist-one-of-a-kind-people, while in fact we are turning into puppets in the marketing game.
Paul

Yet another way for us net-citizens to think we are really, really, hip-cool-special-individualist-one-of-a-kind-people, while in fact we are turning into puppets in the marketing game.
Marisol

I don’t get the hype either…yet I have friends that praise it. I wonder if some hidden message is implanted into their brains from their MySpace site. hmmm j/k
Marisol

I don’t get the hype either…yet I have friends that praise it. I wonder if some hidden message is implanted into their brains from their MySpace site. hmmm j/k
Tim

I got into the whole livejournal thing ’cause it’s the blog of choice for an online community I’m in

But I refuse to join myspace and the like just because my RL friends are using it. If you want to contact me, call me or come by for a visit. Seriously.
Tim

I got into the whole livejournal thing ’cause it’s the blog of choice for an online community I’m in

But I refuse to join myspace and the like just because my RL friends are using it. If you want to contact me, call me or come by for a visit. Seriously.
Carl M

Brian: “You are all individuals!”

Crowd (in unison): “Yes, we are all individuals!”
Carl M

Brian: “You are all individuals!”

Crowd (in unison): “Yes, we are all individuals!”
Carl M

oops … left out a line … (It’d be nice to be able to edit our entries).

ONE GUY: “I’m not.”
Carl M

oops … left out a line … (It’d be nice to be able to edit our entries).

ONE GUY: “I’m not.”
http://www.jeremygaddis.com/ Jeremy

I work in a .edu. MySpace and Facebook (.com) are without a doubt the two most popular sites visited by our students (guessed at that at first, but verified it with proxy logs).

It’s the cool, hip new “thing”. I’m guilty of having my profile on both of them, but I don’t regularly access either one of them. My fiancee (20 yr. old college student), however, is a complete “facebook addict”. I’ve threatened to block her from facebook on our home network. =)

Nearly two months ago there was a nice little attack on MySpace. It was actually quite good, in my opinion, and well thought out. I’m not saying I advocate it, but every once in a while someone will pull off an “attack” that just makes me grin. =)
http://www.jeremygaddis.com/ Jeremy

I work in a .edu. MySpace and Facebook (.com) are without a doubt the two most popular sites visited by our students (guessed at that at first, but verified it with proxy logs).

It’s the cool, hip new “thing”. I’m guilty of having my profile on both of them, but I don’t regularly access either one of them. My fiancee (20 yr. old college student), however, is a complete “facebook addict”. I’ve threatened to block her from facebook on our home network. =)

Nearly two months ago there was a nice little attack on MySpace. It was actually quite good, in my opinion, and well thought out. I’m not saying I advocate it, but every once in a while someone will pull off an “attack” that just makes me grin. =)
Darren Kopp

don’t worry, myspace only has an uptime of 15 minutes, all the rest of the time there is something broken on it.
Darren Kopp

don’t worry, myspace only has an uptime of 15 minutes, all the rest of the time there is something broken on it.

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