Watching the web

Stephen Doggett  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Aug 2006
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If you have not heard of it, you are probably out of it. Social networking tool http://www.myspace.com is the latest phenomenon among the internet generation. In its simplest form a giant online address book, it appeals to the vanity of us all by offering a platform from which we can address the world on our own terms.

In myspace you define who you are by defining your own space — what music you want to play, what graphics you display, what you want to say to the world, what part of you the world should see.

But, as in real life, to define yourself originally and to differentiate yourself from the rest of the human race is not that simple — the real kudos comes through who is willing to define themselves through you, who is linking to your profile, who is reading your blogs, copying your photos and borrowing your broken poetry.

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