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  MySpace Profile Redesign in the Works, Welcomes Site to Post-2005

  JP 1:46 am on July 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  If any of you out there still use MySpace, you’ll be excited to know that MySpace is getting its first significant makeover in ages, according to Mashable. Taking cues from Facebook, and its own MySpace Lite experiment, the new MySpace profiles being tested strip out some of the bloat, streamline navigation and de-emphasize comments from other users.

  You’ll notice upon visiting one of the redesigned pages that the navigation buttons have been shifted into a column on the left side, under the profile photo. Next, you’ll see the center of the page has been overtaken by the MySpace Stream, an index of a user’s recent activity similar to Facebook’s News Feed, ready for visitors comments. You’ll also notice that there is improved integration with other social networking services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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  MySpace Profile Redesign in the Works, Welcomes Site to Post-2005 originally appeared on Switched on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  White Flight: The MySpace/Facebook Racial Divide

  JP 1:46 am on July 17, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  In a compelling article (PDF) titled ‘White Flight in Networked Publics — How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook,’ Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that race and social class were significant factors in the 2006 teenage exodus from MySpace to Facebook. As Technology Review reports, the author uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to persuasively argue that white and Asian teens from higher socio-economic backgrounds were more likely to flock to Facebook in 2006, when the social network was still restricted to colleges and universities. Their black, latino and working-class counterparts, on the other hand, tended to stick with MySpace, which Boyd dubs the “digital ghetto.”

  Perhaps the most fascinating part of Boyd’s article, though, is her take on the role that mainstream media played in perpetuating the real or perceived myth of a MySpace exodus. In 2009, for example, the New York Times ran a piece titled ‘Do You Know Anyone Still On MySpace?’ despite the fact that, at the time, both Facebook and MySpace had about the same number of members. “The New York Times staff was on Facebook and assumed their readers were too,” she claims. The author goes on to cite a few user comments on the Times article that dovetail perfectly with her argument. “My impression is that MySpace is for the riffraff and Facebook is for the landed gentry,” writes one reader. “Compared to Facebook, MySpace just seems like the other side of the tracks — I’ll go there for fun, but I wouldn’t want to live there,” opines another.

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  White Flight: The MySpace/Facebook Racial Divide originally appeared on Switched on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Packed With Tweens and Bands, MySpace Not Dead, Just Slow

  JP 12:48 am on March 12, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Admit it. You’d pretty much given up on MySpace. Struggling to keep pace with the two-headed monster of Facebook and Twitter, the once proud social network seems to have both feet in the grave. But don’t go signing that death certificate just yet; MySpace may be slow, but thanks to a new surge of younger users, it’s far from dead.

  Despite enduring the resignations of two CEOs last year, MySpace, according to USAToday, has managed to carve out a social media niche for itself, and is even expected to haul in a handsome $350 million in revenue this year. By going back to its roots, MySpace has made a conscious effort to distinguish the site as a place for younger audiences to “discover and be discovered.” With a greater selection of games, and a more pointed emphasis on entertainment news for the ‘Twilight’ crowd, the site has amped up its campaign to draw in more of the 13-to-34 age demographic — which, by the way, comprises a whopping 84-percent of MySpace’s total user base.

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  Packed With Tweens and Bands, MySpace Not Dead, Just Slow originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Judge Rules Students Can Be Suspended for Fake MySpace Pages

  JP 12:51 am on February 10, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that schools can legally suspend students for creating fake MySpace profiles, but only if the fabricated online personas poses some sort of school disruption. A three judge panel in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania came to their decision after a student posted a sexually explicit parody of her principal on her fake MySpace page. The panel ruled that the school could legitimately expect the post to disrupt normal school activities, and thus granted authorities the right to suspend the student. As HuffPo reports, though, another Pennsylvania court in Mercer County ruled, in a nearly identical case, that high schools don’t have the right to regulate a student’s digital activity at home, arguing that a child’s MySpace posts fell under the umbrella of his or her right to free speech.

  As social networking has become more prevalent in middle and high schools around the country, school authorities have been seeking some sort of definitive ruling on whether or not they have the right to police students on the Internet. As Witold Walczak of the ACLU tells the Washington Post, “The law was unclear and now it’s in a state of chaos.” To make matters worse, a case of this nature hasn’t yet reached the Supreme Court, so lower courts are forced to use older high court rulings on the boundaries of school jurisdiction as their only legal compass.

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  Judge Rules Students Can Be Suspended for Fake MySpace Pages originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Judge Rules Students Can Be Suspended for Fake MySpace Pages

  JP 12:51 am on February 9, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that schools can legally suspend students for creating fake MySpace profiles, but only if the fabricated online personas poses some sort of school disruption. A three judge panel in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania came to their decision after a student posted a sexually explicit parody of her principal on her fake MySpace page. The panel ruled that the school could legitimately expect the post to disrupt normal school activities, and thus granted authorities the right to suspend the student. As HuffPo reports, though, another Pennsylvania court in Mercer County ruled, in a nearly identical case, that high schools don’t have the right to regulate a student’s digital activity at home, arguing that a child’s MySpace posts fell under the umbrella of his or her right to free speech.

  As social networking has become more prevalent in middle and high schools around the country, school authorities have been seeking some sort of definitive ruling on whether or not they have the right to police students on the Internet. As Witold Walczak of the ACLU tells the Washington Post, “The law was unclear and now it’s in a state of chaos.” To make matters worse, a case of this nature hasn’t yet reached the Supreme Court, so lower courts are forced to use older high court rulings on the boundaries of school jurisdiction as their only legal compass.

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  Judge Rules Students Can Be Suspended for Fake MySpace Pages originally appeared on Switched on Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  'Delete Your Account' Helps You End Your Facebook, Myspace Account

  JP 12:51 am on February 7, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Online companies have slowly made account deletion exasperatingly difficult (if not impossible) to accomplish, and success may only follow hours of trial-and-error-induced hysterics. While GetHuman has been guiding frustrated consumers through the maze of support lines for sometime, it was only recently that we spotted a similar service that walked users around the hair-pulling experience of expunging profiles, or accounts, from clingy Web sites.

  The plainly titled Delete Your Account does exactly what you think: shows you the steps required to remove your presence from various Web sites. Wherever possible, it offers a link to the page where the deletion process begins.

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  ‘Delete Your Account’ Helps You End Your Facebook, Myspace Account originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  Girls, ACLU Sue School Over Punishment for Racy MySpace Photos

  JP 12:53 am on November 3, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Two teenage Indiana girls have sued their high school after the administration punished them for posting sexually suggestive photos of themselves on MySpace, the Associated Press reports. The ACLU, which is representing the two sophomores, argues that the school overstepped its bounds by handing down the punishment and, in so doing, violated the girls’ rights to free speech. Attorneys with the ACLU also pointed out that the photos didn’t involve the school, and that officials needlessly humiliated the two by making them apologize to an all-male board of coaches. The Supreme Court has previously ruled that schools do have the right to punish students for off-campus behavior, so long as the school can justify that the behavior was disruptive and that similar activities were likely to occur at the school, itself.

  In this particular case, the girls took photos during a sleepover held during their summer vacation and posted them on MySpace, adjusting the privacy settings so that only their friends could see them. Eventually, though, the photos circulated throughout the school, and, as some of them showed the lingerie-clad girls licking a phallic lollipop, Principal Austin Couch banned the girls from fall sports, and made them apologize and undergo counseling. According to Couch’s attorney, he was simply enforcing the school’s athletic code, which allows a principal to punish student athletes for any activity that “creates a disruptive influence on the discipline, good order, moral or educational environment at Churubusco High School.”

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  Girls, ACLU Sue School Over Punishment for Racy MySpace Photos originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  MySpace In Talks to Purchase iLike Music Service?

  JP 1:58 am on August 21, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  MySpace may have finally figured out its niche for combating the Facebook onslaught: music, which the almost-obsolete site nails, way better than its shinier competitor. TechCrunch writes that MySpace is close to an agreement in the purchase of the music-based social networking service iLike.

  iLike would not only bring a new pool of members to the NewsCorp-owned site, but would also likely expand its music-centric social features. Plus, it has the potential to put Facebook and other competitors in the awkward position of having a popular, MySpace-run application on their sites. iLike rose to prominence based heavily on the strength of its Facebook application, which lets users share their current music listenings with friends. It also has popular applications on sites like Hi5 and Bebo (owned by our parent company, AOL). The purchase of iLike would reinforce MySpace’s push to become a hub for media and entertainment.
  

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  MySpace In Talks to Purchase iLike Music Service? originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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