by Dave Franklin

Created on: December 31, 2006   Last Updated: April 19, 2007

The website known as myspace has been called many things in its so far short life. It is to the Internet what Big Brother is to television, you either love it or loathe it and those who are aware of it all have an opinion of it. No matter where you stand on the issue it can't be denied that it is one of the fastest growing phenomena's of the Internet world. Although aware of its presence a long time before jumping in to see what it was all about, I had resisted the lure, mainly due to reports I had heard from others. That changed after watching and chatting to a wonderful band called "Loose Caboose" from Winchester, a sort of cross between Bob Marley and Squeeze, if you can imagine such a thing. They said that they had downloads, gig lists and other information all freely available, but instead of maintaining their own website, they did it all though myspace. That was it then, if I wanted to get my grubby little paws on their freebies, I would have to sign up. At the end of the night with one too many drinks coursing through my veins, admittedly not the best approach to such things, I logged on to the world of myspace.

Before I go any further, I should explain the nature of myspace for the three people out there who haven't yet signed up, well it seems as if everyone from this and indeed, many other planets are already on the site. Myspace provides the user with a personal page upon which to write about themselves. The page is a collection of forms and pre-generated templates that you fill in with information about yourself, your likes and dislikes, hobbies, activities, musical and literary tastes and anything else that you wish to say about yourself. Along side this there are chat rooms, events organisers, instant messages, discussion boards and all the things that have become associated with sites based around self-promotion. And that's it, is it. Well yes and no. Myspace is really as simple or as complex as you want to make it, the value of the site is in the very fact that although it has masses of options regarding customising you page, it can be left fairly basic if, like myself, you are not any great techno-brain when it comes to these sort of things. Getting this far was fairly easy, having signed on in my booze addled state, which just shows how easy it is to do, by the next lunch time and about two hours work later, I had a pretty good page. I put a lot of information on my page, you know how verbose us writers can get when talking about ourselves,

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