I.T. to Teacher

I've heard a lot about this MySpace thing. The students all have one, and I heard some teachers talking about it, so I figured I'd go check it out.

I've been to MySpace before. I checked it out when it was new, and not yet the cool thing to do. Looking at it then I thought it was on par with Geocities of the late '90's; lots of people making "Look at me, I'm on the internet!" pages. Since it's so popular now, I thought it must have changed.

Nope.

MySpace is a vast wasteland on the internet. There are a few highlights (Weird Al's site being one example), but those are heavily customized by professionals and far from the typical MySpace fare. What is common are vanity sites that all look the same. I've heard that kids see their MySpace page as a place where they can express themselves. If that's true, then they either don't have anything to express or are too lazy to express it.

Enough about MySpace. It doesn't matter. MySpace is sooo 5 minutes ago. Facebook is where all the cool kids are hanging out now.