MySpace - The Top of The World
During July 22 of 2006, there was a failure to provide MySpace website service to its members, but for a short portion of time.It took place due to the record-breaking North American heat wave,which took place in 2006,that resulted a major power outage to meet as an adversary to the servers of MySpace in Los Angeles . Fortunately the temporary absense of the website was compensated by a Pacman game, as an attempt to reduce discontentment of its members. Favorably the service was reinstated shortly. However the short term vulnerability couldn't prove at all vital as the Myspace continued to prosper as the most visited website within the US – with a new contract with Google worth close to a billion.
Members of MySpace who have been able to attract thousands of people by their profiles,lead to the creation of MySpace Celebrities.They are the popular individuals on MySpace website.These individuals sometimes get the opportunity of exposure on other media profiles as well.An example would be the June 2006 issue of the popular Playboy magazine.That particular issue contained series of nude images of a MySpace female member.And it was on this very issue that featured critical articles about MySpace.
Dave Itzkoff being a member of MySpace,shared his thoughts about the website on the playboy 2006 issue.Among all the other critical issues he pointed out in the article,one was the fact that Myspace sometimes features female with very limited clothing on to their profiles,although this kind of behaviour is not applicable for some of them in practical life,but due to the vast distance that is maintained by the internet and thus MySpace,an act like this is very much possible on this website.Thus the coral theme of this website,which is to bring people around the world closer, is partially destroyed.
Other factors he mentioned was the behaviour of some MySpace members towards other members.This particularly includes the undesirrable disturbing behaviour of contacting random members voluntarily and on turn when these members are shown desire by some other member,intending to socialize,that particular member is found to be not responding or their profiles to be fraud,soliciting various porn sites on to their blogs.Itzkoff observations while eperimenting with MySpace allowed him to show that the website hosts mostly the recording brands,rather than when it should be more favouring the musicians.Although Itzkoff piece of writing had very less positive attrbutes in favour of MySpace but the popularity for this website is undeniably a success,with its members increasing each day.
Focusing over the members who earned fame via MySpace, would show many of these internet celebrities have remained as such,but interestingly some have been known to achieve their first break on other media,such as the radio,magazine and television.MySpace could be called the platform where people can expose information about themselves to the world,and as well as their activities and their talents.Christine “Forbidden” Dolce could be an example for this.This MySpace member appeared on The Tyra Banks Show.Another example regarding MySpace celebrity is of Tila Tequila's,as for instance she covered for the two magazines,Maxim and Stuff.