MySpace Profile

My coworker Garrett blogs about MySpace religiously. I’m sure if I got him going he could talk for hours about the implications of social networking and the potential marketing impact of a successful profile. Granted, that’s all very interesting stuff, but it’s not something that your average user will ever have need to consider.

Still, his zeal on the subject intrigued me enough to take my first faltering steps into the creation of my own MySpace profile. It seemed simple enough. You collect your personal information on a standardized homepage, generate your own content, and develop a network of friends. As your profile becomes more popular, your friends list grows larger, and vice versa. It is, as Garrett would surely agree, a fine example of social networking at work.

Of course, I wasn’t truly impressed with it until, after mere minutes of searching, I successfully located and added an old coworker to my friends list. It was my old supervisor, the only boss I had at Advanced Internet Technologies who I actually liked and with whom I had been unable to get into contact for months. That I was able to reestablish a social link so rapidly in MySpace blew my mind.

I can’t say whether it was a fluke or MySpace is simply a well-designed web application, but I’ll certainly be keeping up with my profile to find out. I’m starting to see what Garrett’s always saying about the possibilities. If I can manage to find a few more friends with similar ease, you’ll hear me preaching the gospel of MySpace alongside him.