MCOM 63: Social Media Experiment

Apologies for the lateness of this post.

The social media site I looked into was MySpace. This seems to be by far the most popular social media site and for years now I have been asked the question, "why don't you have a MySpace?", like there was something wrong with me for not having an account. The answer I've always given is that is seems like a lot of work to get your page set up looking how you want it to look and then even more work keeping it up-to-date. I was sure that, although it may seem fun at first, I would not have the commitment required for a MySpace account.

Like I expected, it was quite tricky setting my page how I wanted it, despite using one of the many sites that assists you with this. I was delighted though, to get a music player up on my page. I was able to select from a large catalogue of songs to put on my player and could show the world some of my favorite tracks. This was certainly the feature I enjoyed the most. It was fun too, hunting down some of those people who, down the years, had badgered me to sign up for MySpace and letting them know that I was on board.

However, my inclinations about MySpace have been proven correct. After a week or so I began to lose enthusiasm for my page. Changing my music selection and seeing what everyone was getting up to had lost its initial glamor. So, while MySpace may have a lot of great innovative features, it just requires too much commitment for me i'm afraid. I'll stick to Facebook.