MySpace

After looking through different articles in the New York Times, i found this one very appealing. There is a photo of an older gentleman and it is one of the creators of MySpace. To my surprise the guy looked a lot older then i would have imagined. He has created such a large communication portal mainly for what started off for younger people. In this article it discusses how his father always influenced him to think outside the box, and with the creation of MySpace i think he did. MySpace came around in a time when technology was on the rise. And he was able to create a product in an area that had a gap. At the time most people had telephones for communication and some professionals had profiles for business, etc but there wasn't a place to go and allow you to be able to almost create yourself on a profile and share it with the world. His part Tom Anderson (we all know him as Tom), have worked hard it creating and keeping up one of the leading Internet communication sites.

I remember when i got my MySpace account and how i would spend hours and hours adding songs, changing the background, the profile information and adding pictures. I was so addicted that a few times i had to cancel my account because it was distracting me so much that i wasn't dong my school work. I wanted to update my profile all the time, and then check out my friends profiles to see what they adding to theirs. it was INSANE the amount of time that was spent on MySpace. As most good companies do, MySpace grew rapidly, then it got to the point where it was running slow, and creeping people were on their and they were always doing maintenance for the site. It began to get very annoying, then started my Facebook account. I now check facebook my than myspace. Recently i watched a movie where they discussed how Myspace was the new bootycall, and that you have to check so many portals when you are trying to get in touch with people. We all have several email account, Myspace, facebook, texting,etc. Like it was stated in the movie in order to update your image you don't go get your hair done, you update your profile. We are such a techno world where everything is online. I am interested to see how the creators of Myspace or someone else will take communication to the next level in the future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/jobs/22boss.html?_r=1