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but I think that you could come up with a worthwhile page after forty minutes work. Of course you can tinker with, alter or completely rehash your page when and as often as you like. Its probably best to take the middle ground here and set up a page that has enough information to promote what it is you want to draw attention to, but leave enough room to add other things in later. There is a wealth of things that you can add on later from music file, videos from your favourite bands, quizzes and questionnaires and so much more.

So the work is done and you are ready to explore. Now this is really where the fun begins. Myspace currently has about 120,000,000 members. That's not a typing error and yes that is a lot of people, so how can a membership that large have any sort of community feel to it? Well just like a country is made up of lots of small communities, myspace is divided into lots of smaller groups all interwoven and complex, just like real life. This is driven by the "friends" system. As you read about other members, you will obviously come across some that you seem to share parallel interests with and these you can ask to be your friends. Just like the trust systems found on these review sites you will find their link image in your friend's folder and this acts as a direct jump to their page. Fairly quickly you will build up a whole series of webs of friendship as you hop from your friends to their friends and on the next circle. Also once friends you can leave comments on each other's pages. Even though the enormity of the site is impossible to miss you will end up moving in small circles, often amongst people that you socialise with, people who share common interests, or just chatting to people that you find interesting.

So what's the point of all of this? Well just as the Internet itself is really a vehicle, a means to an end, myspace is also what you make of it. Aside from the obvious chat/date possibilities, once you are aware that members may not just be everyday people but could be bands, companies or organisations, the possibilities open up before you. Many bands run a myspace site along side their own website and thus you then have a direct line to their gig date, news and media with downloads and the like available with easy to be listened to for free and even added to your own page. The beauty of this is that you can have access to hundreds of different band without having to move out of the myspace umbrella. If you find yourself on the profile

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