Myspace is a craze that has gone corporate. About two or three months ago, it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch/News Corporation. Since then, Myspace has been on television shows, films, commercials, books, everything you can think of...possibly because Murdoch owns them.
Friends at Google Corporate HR also mentioned that as part of their background check, they also look through Myspace. They check to see if their candidates have a site and get any additional information they can find on that person. What?!
I was fine when hiring managers and HR professionals told me they "googled" candidates to see what they could find on them but Myspace, too?
The USC Annenberg School for Communication is starting courses that study online communities and will most likely use Myspace as their "textbook."
The main reason why I decided to get a site was specifically for my family. For some reason those fools really aren't telephone talkers so that's the only way I know what the hell is going on in their lives.
I don't communicate with my friends through the online community unless I really have to. Maybe I'm just old fashioned like that. But I've always been slow to all the new haps, especially when I've been so used to speaking with people directly.
I don't use Myspace for networking and it has never been my intention to do so. Recently I've been asked to and I'm still thinking about it.....
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