The wonderful world of myspace...

How did Tom know when he created Myspace.com in 2003 that his idea would connect not only his friends in Santa Monica, California, but people all around the world. Over one hundred million people use myspace to keep in touch with old friends, make new friends, share pictures, and display job skills for other's to see.

Myspace users have many different options when it comes to displaying visual rhetoric on their personalized page. A picture and a name represent who you are. Click on the picture and you find a web page dedicated to and maintained by this one person. Their life and personality are represented by this one page. How old they are, where they go to school, what jobs they have had, the friends they hang out with, the music they listen to, and bloggs about a persons life are just some of the options a user can post.

I don't see gender playing a role in the world of myspace. The ethos for my argument can be represented by the pictures users post. Profiles of guys with pictures of them dressed as girls and pictures of girls playing sports, working on cars, and even dressing like guys are just some of the many examples. I've seen profiles of guys who appear soft, sensitive, and kind, and I've seen profiles of girls who appear to be mean, rough, and don't really care how they look in a certain picture.

The likely hood that someone looses tack of time on this website is very high. A user can spend hours looking for old friends or just people who have the same interests. But, isn't it ironic that the creator of this website was an English and rhetoric major.