Unperturbed by the reportage of nookie nastiness on Myspace, miniMurdoch-world seems to be going ahead with the planned Playboy feature. Hmm… I wonder if Melissa or Kimberley or any of the other fakester ladies that message me every week or so either about how lonely they are or how I should check out their pay-for-porn site will be in the calendar?
Of course, Myspace will claim that they are doing their best to keep their cyberspace free from sexual predators, and hopefully nuisances. I hate getting spam friend requests, sexual or otherwise (lower mortgage rates, anyone?), and I wish myspace would at least put a stop to that nonsense. As for the dirty stuff, there are a lot of people who are legally getting their rocks off, and I think they should be allowed to do so. Myspace deserves credit for using its super-democratic structure for reporting every variety of abuse – it does seem to have improved over the last 2 months, at least based on my tests.
Myspace’s Tom and Chris insist that they and their staff find the time to go through every single message to them or complaint by users. I’ve abandoned my Friendster account because it got boring, I’m not sure how quickly I’ll be able to part from Myspace though, no matter how annoying it gets, it’s popular because it’s the most functional Online Social Network by far. However, the functionality of an OSN naturally includes a prerequisite for critical mass, and Myspace is already nearing its mid-life crisis in Internet years so… is the time ripe for a leftfield underdog to attempt to take over the OSN mass market? Or will we merely observe the continuing, and continuingly banal, proliferation of imitators & specialists (LinkedIn, Facebook, Tribe, and so on, take your pick…)? Or perhaps, we are on the verge of the entry of integrators and aggregators (gasp)!
WWW, sweet WWW; What further marvels doth the future hold?
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