myspace: pros and cons

I watched the tutorial on signing up for myspace for this week's assignment and it did look relatively easy. You put in your name email address, make-up a password, list your birthday, and you're done. I have to admit I thought the process of signing up for myspace would be a little more involved. I think I thought that because of the amount of things that myspace allows users to do, they had to basically sign their soul to them in return. As it turns out they do not ask you for your soul, just your name e-mail address and a password. My excercise did not change my feelings about myspace in general. I don't know that myspace is entirely bad at all, but it does seem like more trouble than it's worth. Most of my freinds have a myspace, and most of them never check them anymore. Someone stole my friend's password and put a bunch of crap up on her page; she was going to create a new password and account, but ended up deleting her page altogether. I'm sure that myspace has good intetnions, and I believe that most users on the site have good intentions. I just think that they have strayed too far from what the site was meant to be in the first place, somewhere where adolescents could keep in touch with their friends online. Now it's just a place for anyone like a chat room that provides screen names, and real names and birthdays and addresses. I think the reason that it is popular might have to do with the same reason why the internet itself is popular; it gives you innovative ways to talk to large amounts of friends and to make new friends all at one time. It gives you your own private forum to post your ideas and a chance to be exposed to new ones. Everything that a person normally loves to do with their friends (other than movie watching I supposse) can be done on myspace. It's showing the world who you are while still staying safe within the bounds of your own space (I know it might be the corniest sounding thing in recent history; sue me). I know that the title of the post tends to be misleading because I'm focusing more on the cons of myspace than the pros. Don't you know by now not to believe everything that you read?