Is MySpace
considered fun or a growing addiction? This new trend of socialization has blown up since it's launching in 2003. Yet it's kind of taken the direction of becoming rather addictive with some people who spend all day long surfing the site and adding people on their friends lists, and collecting profiles like it's a shot glass from a souvenir shop. The problems that have erupted on there are the growing number of teenagers and children accessing this site and actually became the breeding ground for possible child predators to find underage victims on there. The security on MySpace is unreal because hackers always seem to find some way to crack passwords and unlawfully access accounts. The one thing that's come up is the constant need to fix up pages and competing with other users which is clear that you can tell the ones who don't have a life and who spend all day on there surfing.
Some of the users who do come on MySpace aren't going to admit how addicting the site is and how they spend all day and night surfing the site. Other issues with MySpace are the constant technical issues that crop up with the level of security in terms of the issue with the hackers and making it so that underage users can't contact adults on the site and requires parental clearance. It seems like people think MySpace is all that when in fact it's really not since you only get a page it's not really a website per say. It seems as if the site is causing people to be signed on all day it's gotten to the point many public libraries and even school libraries have resorted to firewalling access to the site to free up the computer system bandwith so it's not causing the system to crash because so many people are accessing MySpace 24 hours a day and basically staying online.
MySpace is a great place to network, but when does it be come an obsession to the point it can take over people's lives and they don't do anything else, but surf MySpace. Seems like the trend is to see who's got the most people on their friend list. It's slowly starting to come to the realization that it's just one big competition for who's got the biggest and baddest pages with the most people on it. It's kind of funny how people have so many on their friends list and they don't even talk to a good portion of them. When does socialization go too far when people spend endless time on a website such as MySpace?
