MySpace
Social Media Platform
"MySpace is a place for friends. MySpace is Your Space. MySpace keeps you connected."
MySpace allows users to customize their user profile pages in such areas as "About Me," "I'd Like to Meet," and "Interests." Videos and flash-based content can be included this way. Users also have the option to add music to their profile pages via MySpace Music, a service that allows bands to post songs for use on MySpace.
Bulletins are posted on to a "bulletin board" for everyone on a MySpace user's friends list to see. Bulletins can be useful for contacting an entire friends list without resorting to messaging users individually.
MySpace has Groups, instant messaging, videosharing, a mobile app, RSS news feed, classifieds, and forums.
While MySpace skews towards a younger audience, musicians, bands, comedians and filmmakers are a substantial part of this networking community. MySpace allows artists to upload their entire discographies consisting of MP3 songs. The uploader must have rights to use the songs (e.g. their own work, permission granted, etc). Unsigned musicians often use MySpace to post and sell music using SNOCAP, which has proven popular among MySpace users.
