Jacking MySpace for fame and fortune

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Jacking MySpace for fame and fortune | CNET News.com is an interesting article to me. The one thing that’s good about myspace is that it allows for you to participate without really having to produce content. The social communication tools are, to me, more directed on the most superficial forms of hype-comm. Think of MySpace as a conversation held during a rave or a rock concert. Deep. This is probably part of its success and danger. Try reading the blogs of people on Livejournal.com and see if you can guess something about the person writing them. You can find out a lot. And if someone’s being fake or evasive, it is not too difficult to notice. On MySpace, the hardest thing to figure out is whether anyone’s really home, amid the self-promotion and boosterism.

But then again, when your personality can be packed into an image, a slogan, and a list of Favs and Raves, do you really need much more than MySpace? Perhaps MySpace is a prefect place for the 70-odd million to go, and ‘do their own thing’ with each other, cutting down on the background noise elsewhere.