Just For Fun: First MySpace Love Song?

Mary — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:24:03 -0400

Though MySpace may have jumped the shark, this song is pretty cute. Sample lyric:

Then again, maybe I'm being too hard on MySpace. Maybe it's just a cultural difference, as danah boyd explains.

MySpace is Dead

Mary — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:11:22 -0300

The social network is dead. Long live the social network. (I always liked Facebook better.)

We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots and the the anonymous birthday announcements, not to mention spam wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in banner ads.

He decided to catalog the many ways in which MySpace had failed him:

1. You

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Activism with your Friends

Mary — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:15:19 -0400

why Facebook makes the activist in me smile

For the lofty academic goals of pure research I have recently been joining online social networks, specifically Facebook, Change.org, Care2, and LinkedIn. The only one I became attached to was Facebook and actually, I am embarrassed to say, I visit the site every day.

My affinity for Facebook is a bit of a surpise to me. My original reason for signing up for these networks was because I am interested in the possiblity of online communities for activism. I'd really like to see people using online social networks

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