MySpace, known as "A Place for Friends" is ranked as the 4th most popular social networking site! It's not just your typical social networking site, MySpace has chat rooms, movie theaters, shopping malls, bars, and concerts on the site that are open all day, all night, and all year round. MySpace was first created in 2003 by a small group of programmers, named Brad Greenspan, Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, Toan Nguyen, and Tom Anderson, who had another Internet company. With the influence of Friendster, a popular social network back in the day, the programmers got together and designed their own site hoping to be as successful as Friendster.

MySpace originally started in Southern California and was aimed to actors, musicians, and artists. On August 2003, the site was launched to the public. The first people to create profiles were local bands and club owners. Their profiles on MySpace helped advertise and post events to attract more publicity. At first DeWolfe thought it would be a good idea to charge users to use the site, but the rest of the programmers knew it had to stay free if they wanted to be successful and attain users. MySpace was very appealing because members had full control of their page, meaning they could design it however they preferred and post whatever they wanted to post, to an extent of course. Hence the name "MySpace", the site gives you "your space".

However, MySpace did come across some problems. MySpace became popular around the world, which lead to people questioning their safety. Users started to feel that their social security numbers were at risk, and that other people could figure them our using their personal information on their profiles. Not to mention, members of MySpace were very concerned of predators and pedophiles getting their information, such as date of birth or even hometown. Not to long after, DeWolfe made changes to the site making it much for secure. He prevented young teens from becoming members, and made sure that ever picture uploaded (17 million per day) onto each members profile was monitored. Users were satisfied with the improvements!

MySpace is still currently located in California, and becomes more successful every day. On an average day, the site has over 230,000 new members, with a total of 200 million members from around the world! Personally, I have never had a MySpace account, neither have any of my friends. It doesn't interest me because I feel like there is too much going on when you log onto the site. I'll stick to my Twitter and Instagram!! How do you guys feel about MySpace? Have you ever had a MySpace account or is it just me?

Tune in next week for the 3rd most popular social network! It starts with the letter I!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
http://mashable.com/2013/08/16/teens-social-media-chart/
http://personalweb.about.com/od/myspacecom/a/whatismyspace_5.htm