Talk:Myspace/Archive 1

message: I believe the idea that MySpace was created by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe is completely false. I have seen information regarding the true creator of MySpace to be Brad Greenspan (former head of InterMix Media/eUniverse). MySpace was created by Brad Greenspan and Tom and Chris just helped develop it.
* If you can provide references for this information, add it. —tregoweth (talk) 02:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Real History of MySpace 

message: If someone impersonates you on myspace.com is myspace allowed to provide you with their IP and e-mail address?
I believe this is not the case, due to their privacy policy, but contacting someone at myspace might help. 207.192.227.133 12:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Privacy Policy 

message: Myspace in educational settings:
"In 2005, a Connecticut teacher was suspended from teaching after school officials discovered he had a MySpace and used it to communicate with students."
Is there a citation or any more information about this?
--68.9.91.215 01:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  CT Teacher 

message: In the article it says that there is no streamline search feature but this is a complete and utter, nasty, disgusting, rude and devilish lie. On the top right of the MySpace screen you can search and then search for names.
:Try actually using the search feature.  Go ahead.  Try it to find something that you know to be on someone's MySpace profile page.  Try the phrase: "skulls oscillating".  Why doesn't it return my profile page, which is www.myspace.com/thekohser ?  Maybe because the search function is utterly nasty and disgusting, from a programming point of view.   -Thekohser 15:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously this has been taken out of the article, but I agree that the search facility is pretty poor.  Searching is pretty hard to program, and I am surprised now myspace is so huge they have not licenced some search technology from someone else.  It may be worth mentioning again under the Criticism of MySpace section, since everyone I know who has used myspace, says how poor the search is (hopefully that will change). --SnakeSeries 16:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard it argued that the search is deliberately useless, so that it emphasizes the social networking aspect of the site. Arvindn 22:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Search feature

message: I have heard about a myspace hacker who put the site down for a few days. Shouldn't he be mentioned? Blatantly Evil 02:23, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Myspace Hacker

message: There should be a page about that punk who commited suicide on MySpace. PirateMonkey 03:09, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: How can you commit a suicide on Myspace? Thorri 14:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Seriously, you can bear to have that as your e-mail address? Not a Sockpuppet of Flameviper12 15:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suicide

message: Should I put something in there about myspace's huge popularity? From what I've seen myspace has eclipsed all its rivals and may be the biggest social networking site around today.. at least in the US Jarwulf 00:40, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "Biggest social networking site around today" is quite POV. If you can cite reliable sources, then be bold and go ahead. -- Perfecto  01:48, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

text: This is objectively verifiable using third-party Internet audience measurement services such as comScore Media Metrix or Nielsen NetRatings. Last month, according to comScore, MySpace.com was the third-ranked website in terms of monthly page views (10 billion plus), trailing only Yahoo and MSN, and far more heavily trafficked than any other social networking website. 24.126.242.132 09:04, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Popularity

message: The company name of 'MySpace' is MySpace, Inc, there seems to be precedent for articles to go by their correct company name (eg 'Sky' is at BSkyB), I suggest that it should be moved to
MySpace, Inc
This is the legal company name as per the MySpace.com Terms and conditions page.
Also the 'MySpace', 'Myspace, 'MySpace.com' and 'Myspace.com' redirects should be changed.
::The website is clearly branded as "MySpace" or "MySpace.com"... so I think the article should stay where it is, with the redirects in place (of course, there's no reason not to create a "MySpace, Inc" redirect to point here, as well. But since there's no need to move the article elsewhere in order to disambig, I can't see it's necessary to move away from "MySpace". After all, if people are looking up the article, it seems more likely they'd try "MySpace" rather than "MySpace, Inc", so we may as well avoid the redir... UkPaolo 10:29, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Isn't the idea to make things as accurate as possible though, rather than just choosing the ones people are most likely to look for? I bet some things are mis-spelled more often than they spelled correctly when people look them up on Wikipiedia, but that's no reason to rename a article to the mis-spelled version and have the "less used" correctly spelled version redirect to that, is it? -Chaosfeary 10:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If someone feels that strongly about it, the article could be split into articles about the website MySpace and the company MySpace, Inc., as with Google (the company) and Google search (the site). tregoweth 20:26, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes... to be honest, from reading the terms and conditions link which was posted above, it seems that the website itself is always branded as "MySpace" or "MySpace.com". "MySpace, Inc" only gets a mention at the end as owning the trademark. Would seem logical in my opinion, for an article about the website (such as this one) to be titled "MySpace" or "MySpace.com", and an article about the company (should someone choose to write one) at "MySpace, Inc". Just my $0.02 UkPaolo 21:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with UkPaolo. Dansiman 08:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to MySpace, Inc 

message: is it Myspace or MySpace? every time it is said on the site it is MySpace, but the pages titles show Myspace.com --AlexTheMartian 05:33, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
It's MySpace. The article isn't named "MySpace" probably because someone made it "Myspace" first.
--Alex12 3 02:21, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've undone the changes. For one, most of the wiki article still used "MySpace" so your own changes seemed to be in the minority. For two, The myspace page itself liberally uses "MySpace" or "MySpace, Inc.", so I believe "MySpace" to be the official - according to MySpace themselves - capitalisation. -- Ch'marr 20:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: No one has posted anything as to *why* it should be cleaned up. I see no problem at all with the aritcle's quality. I'm removing the cleanup notice. ~~
*While this article isn't particularly in need of cleanup, it is still very much in need of attention. Much of the prose is quite clumsy, and the founding section in particular is poorly written. I am trying to find more articles about MySpace that would lend insight into some of the details of its birth. If anyone can help out with this I would be much obliged. Slugmaster 00:29, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. From what I understand, the detail in a wikipedia article is why most people, including myself, use it in the first place.  Instead of what would be a rough overview in comparison with Wikipedia, by another site. 11th grade in california, when taking a tech class, are often asked to do a project about Myspace, for one reason or another.--Mark 19:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant 

message: Hard to believe that someone would have a problem with there being too many anti-racist groups. -- Riffsyphon1024 04:44, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
The argument is that different views have been effectively outlawed.
--Alex12 3 02:24, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Racist?

message: Could someone with more information clarify this section? Are they banned from an "anti-racist" group, or banned from MySpace?
--Alex12 3 22:48, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Racist Groups" 

message: Links should be provided only to relevant Wikipedia articles; this article suffers from a plague of irrelevant links to year, month, date articles. 
Could these be cut back a bit, please? They're distracting and add nothing useful for readers. (Who cares what else happened on the same date in history as MySpace introduced "customisable name-URLs"?) Attempting to put minor MySpace updates on the same historical plane as wars, births, and deaths comes over as hubristic and self-aggrandizing.
:Dates aren't linked so that people can see what else happened on that date; they're linked so that Wikipedia can format them correctly, according to the user's preferences. For example, "January 1, 1970" will always be in the format "Month Day, Year", whereas "January 1, 1970" will be in the user-preferred format. – Mipadi 17:36, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many date/month/year wiki links 

message: MySpace has been bought by News Corp (known for owning Fox)... someone should update this article to reflect all that.
* It's already in the article, at the end of the first paragraph. –Chairlunchdinner 04:31, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bought 

message: I removed all but two external links per WP:NOT and WP:EL. Rl 19:12, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: On my MySpace page, one of my friends left me a bulletin saying that Taylor Behl's killer was somebody who she had met over MySpace. I haven't done much further looking into the story to see if this is true or not. Is that really the case? And if so, how can it be mentioned in this article in a way that is NPOV, considering that this article seems to be more about the site/company and its corporate information? By the way, here is the posting: 
:"GIRL MURDERED by man she first met up online on MYSPACE !!!
:"Taylor Behl,a student from Virginia, has been found murdered. Her body turned up yesterday in a shallow grave and was confirmed to be that of Taylor Behl.The prime suspect, Ben Fawley claims to be an amateur photographer and is being held by authorities. She has a MySpace page and to see the comments from people while she was missing right up to finding the body is pretty sad and intense.Keep in mind that there are over 30 million people on this network so the odds are pretty good that you'll interact with some psychos and possibly some predators along the way(male or female). Just be careful and use common sense especially if you are female. I know 1st hand the amount of e-mails that women get every single day, half from guys posing as amateur photographers. 
:"Check out her My Space profile, which is still up and all the comments her friends have been leaving her from the day she disappeared up until today. 
:"http://www.myspace.com/doowop" 
--Idont Havaname 17:38, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, idont havaname, you don't havasource. Come back later when you can cite a reliable source. Thank you. --Perfecto  23:54, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Taylor Behl]] 

message: I removed this from the page:
"MySpace is often a humorous target as a site filled with scene kids and emo kids, many of whom are supposedly suicidal and slutty with black hair and bangs crossed over one eye and thick-rimmed glasses, plus they all seem to have the same personalities. However, Myspace's members represent a very wide range of social groups. There are members of all races, sexual preferences, interests, political persuasions, religions, etc."
found it to be rather useless and... like somebody was pre-empting an attack on Myspace. Weird. It seems it was added back even though somebody above had already removed it.68.199.31.28 04:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Stereotypes" of myspace - WHY DOES THIS SECTION CONTINUE TO BE REBORN 

message: The history section is overlong and badly written so I think it needs replacing with something else. I suggest we go for a short list of when various features were added or even include a features section and insert the date they were implimented after each entry. What does everyone think? I was going to be bold and do it all now but there's so much information there it's hard to do it in one go and it's a pretty big change to the article. Opinions and suggestions would therefore be useful. Jellypuzzle 19:43, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a pretty good idea to me but I don't think the history section is that bad. But a little rough around the edges, yes. --Thorri 19:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree "badly written" was a bit harsh. I should have said "needs work" or such. Either way, I've moved the feature related history into its own section. It's all quite messy right now though so the clean up tag needs to stay. I didn't really do any edits to the actual text of each bit, just moved it away from the general history so they're all in one place. The section on videos ought to be moved up there too sometime and the general history bit re-written into better headings than the two. I've tried my best to make it read a bit better today with this and some minor reshuffles and may do some more tomorrow. Sorry if I've messed anything up. Jellypuzzle 22:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History/features section 

message: I think some consensus ought to be reached on here regarding whether or not the "emo scene" should be mentioned. Changing the wikilink from "alternative" to point to alternative rock rather than the alternative culture I set it as could work but that might not be enough if someone thinks it is worth an even larger mention. I've had a MySpace profile for quite a while and haven't personally noticed any more "emo kids" than any other group of people but I could just be missing it by just viewing things asociated with my clique. Debating through edit summaries really isn't the best way to solve such things. Jellypuzzle 23:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree this should be discussed here. Personally, I feel a sentence along the lines that MySpace is "often associated with the emo subculture" (appropriately wikilinked) would be reasonable. Even if it is not true that MySpace is "full of emo kids", I feel it is true that it is often associated with being like that, if that makes sense. Makes just as much sense to mention emo as alternative, imho. Although I would agree with anyone in saying that it's probably not entirely trye. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 08:33, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I found this article from the generation y article when the gen y article was discussing emo. I think myspace became popular first with the emo crowd, but it is now becoming MUCH more mainstream. Flyerhell 06:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emo related edit tussle 

message: The current article doesn't seem to fairly balance the postive and negative aspects of MySpace. Maybe there are more problems than good, I don't know, I'm still learning, but it seems to be missing a section between the Origins and Culture/Criticisms sections. I'd call it "Stellar Rise of MySpace" and discuss the fact that this is a phenomenon, 45 million in 2 years is uncommon, right? This is a major community venue. What about a valuation of MySpace itself (in addition to current valuation of parent company? Allude to the system strain due to it's rapid growth. 68.206.0.176 06:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Missing Section 

message: OKAY..I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS OR NOT..BUT SOME HACKER HACKED INTO ABOUT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE'S E-MAILS/PASSWWORDS AND POSTED THEM ON THE NET..I WAS ON OF THEM ONT HE LIST!
::We need a verifiable source of this incident before inclusion could be considered. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 19:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The passwords were posted to this very article. The revisions have been erased from the history, however. Fredrik | tc 00:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SHOULD WE TOOK ABOUT THE PASSWORD/E-MAIL EXPLOITS? 

message: It's a vague claim - "some people post nude pics" -  the same thing could be said of any website-host or blogging service. Is there any notable controversy surrounding this, for example criticism from the media or other organisations?
Just because something is technically true doesn't make it encyclopedic - and this statement only becomes true through the use of weasel words. "Many people"? "Some people"? Does this paragraph actually tell the reader anything useful? Mdwh 12:25, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A few Google hits of random sites isn't sufficient to be notable. I disagree that we need to add "Some people post nude pics" to every single website and blog hosting service article out there. It may be notable that the media have covered it - as they have, with the links you've now added - so that's why I changed it to reflect this. Mdwh 22:59, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: wrong, MySpace WILL delete any nudity IF REPORTED, it is just that Myspace can not monitor ALL millions of profiles for nudity. common sense. -- AlexTheMartian | Talk 00:26, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nudity 

message: Many feel that the networking function of MySpace is useless, due to the fact that when a new user creates a MySpace, he or she is automatically friends with site founder Tom. Many people never delete Tom from their friends list, so it is almost impossible to find someone who is not in your personal network because of this. I take it that the first 'many' are different people from the second 'many'.  In which case who are the first 'many' who worry that the second 'many' can't find people who aren't their friends? Mark1 14:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Networking 

message: Okay, yes, MySpace has faced a lot of criticism. But why must 2/3 of the article be about the criticism it's received? I find it unfair. This article should focus more on what MySpace is and not what some people think MySpace is supposed to be. bob rulz 08:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also removed the section concerning downtime, for similar reasons for those above. It's not verified, (statements such as "new features to the site often cause MySpace to run even slower" are hard to formally verify) and statements such as "the success of this maintainance is yet to be experienced by MySpace users" seems distinctly unencyclopedic. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 19:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Uneven Criticism Length

message: I've seen profiles of celeb's on myspace including people like The Rock(Dwane Johnson).
Does anyone know if these proviles are real or fake? If there are so many Celeb's on Myspace possibly it should be included in the article?
::I think adding a small list of confirmed celebrity accounts would be good. But I wouldn't go adding possibly fake one's. If anyone wants to know, I have the name of the account held by the band HIM and the account of Bam Margera. Moe ε 03:42, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bam has stated on Radio Bam that he doesn't have a MySpace and anyone who is on there is a fake. --Liface 04:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: obviously that proves that none of us can use our reasoning to figure out which profile might be real. I think if any list be made, it only include those who said themselves that they have a MySpace (Carson Daly for example talks about his MySpace profile on his Last Call show), or those who's publicist or manager or something along those lines have talked about them having it. guessing or rumors should not be used in figuring out if a profile is real. -- AlexTheMartian | Talk 04:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I never heard that announcement on Radio Bam before. Hmm.. must be fake then. Then what about the HIM myspace account, it's posted on the article HIM (band). Are we sure if it's fake or not. Moe ε 05:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you do choose to make a list, comedians Carlos Mencia and Dane Cook both have MySpace accounts, linked to from their official websites. —chair lunch dinner™ (talk) 05:11, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celebrities on MySpace??? 

message: Here are the advantages of MySpace - link
Hope that helps. -User:Carie
:I love how it says "More negative points than positive". In that case, Hitler may need a neutrality check. Doug teh H-Nut 05:06, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, PoV is outright saying that "the Holocaust was bad" or "Myspace is a failure". Of course, we all know that the Holocaust was bad, but this is an encyclopedia, not an editorial. So stating that, "MySpace is criticized for its blue elephants," and citing your sources isn't POV. --MasTer of Puppets Peek! 17:27, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be easy to fix. But this article is flagged for "more bad points than good" - Abscissa 20:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to make this article more neutral 

message: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bloggers_investigate_social_networking_websites []
:Yes, relevant details probably should be included from that article. In the meantime, I've linked it in with a Wikinews box. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 20:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should any of this be included? 

message: HOW DO I MAKE MYSPACE PROFILE PRIVATE SO ONLY MY FRIENDS CAN SEE
My understanding is that you set your Age to 15, and then it will enable a private profile.  Why don't you look in the appropriate places, like http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.faq&faqQuestionId=42 rather than Wikipedia?
--Posting a false age is a bannable offence, with all the bad press I imagine they're pretty on edge 
about this. Although there is a way to accomplish privacy without risking your account: 
209.191.216.227 17:44, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PRIVATE PROFILE 

message: Does anyone happen to know the myspace userbox code? I've seen one or two before but I can't seem to find the code on the list of user boxes. -- Whane 03:21, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  myspace userbox 

message: The references section doesn't seem to be being kept updated, and thus there's some references which are no longer cited. I think the numbering is quite messed up too... └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 13:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Changed the words "racial minorities" to "different races". It's unfortionate when people think that racism only affects minorities. :(
If somebody can think of a better way to word that sentance, that's cool. SilentRage 03:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "racial minorities" 

message: Aparntly there was a 15 year old who posted on Myspace for someone to call the police to his house. Any more info. I know they made fun of it on ytmnd.
We talked about this a little bit earlier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Myspace#Suicide
68.239.95.130 16:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suicide 

message: what the shit Rubber cat 03:23, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "more 'elite' communities such as YTMND "? 

message: i deleted that little piece of retardation.  —This unsigned comment was added by Guy named chris (talk • contribs) 16:51, 22 March 2006.
you are a true wikipatriot Rubber cat 04:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "stupidity" bit 

message: What happen to it?
Somebody set up us the Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_prominent_MySpace_members. --Maxamegalon2000 07:32, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  what happen to List of prominent MySpace members? 

message: In the introduction section of this article, there is the following statement: "As of March 2006 it is the world's fifth most popular English-language website and the eighth most popular in the world (according to Alexa Internet[1])."
Well, which one is it? Is it the fifth most popular or the eighth? Interrupt_feed 16:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The two are not mutually exclusive, as long as there are three non-English language sites which are more popular. -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:48, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which one is it? 

message: It said There are over 67 million users on myspace.
This is untrue for there are actualey 67million registered accounts.
I myself made a myspace when it first came out just to look at pictures and then i made one for myself to be with friends and the other day i made one so i could look at pictures when i was at the library.
If I made 3 accounts, imagine how many other people made 3+ accounts. This makes the number a lot lower and a lot less accurate.
So i changed it to say there are 67 million registered accounts.
:You only needed one account. No one's going to find out if you viewed their pictures. No one cares about you enough to track your IP address either, so you shouldn't have to worry about that either. Unless you're hiding something. Chantessy 23:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: i currently manage five accounts, but the other four are for bands i'm in. and one fake profile. i'm sure there are plenty of legit uses for multiple profiles. Gordonjay 04:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  67 million accounts 

message: Why some users said the sentence: "Thanks for the add" ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.233.252.58 (talk • contribs) 
: I believe it's "thanks for having added me as a friend [to your profile]". Not really something worth adding to an encyclopedia, article, however. The notion of people adding others as friends is already discussed. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 10:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Thanks for the add"

message: Does anyone the technology behind myspace.com, I think they are a good case study for a high-volume  website with database usage.. Is it php , mysql, did they custom write the site or use an off-the-shelf script..
:I'm not sure what their database is, but they use Macromedia ColdFusion for their server-side scripting --^demon 21:45, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know that they use Microsoft IIS 6.0 for their servers. I have seen IIS error pages sometimes on the site. Myspace actually uses BlueDragon.NET for their server-side scripting, it is deceiving because the pages are .cfm. [This guy] talks a lot more about the myspace technology. [Here] is another, more reputable source. CompotatoJ 03:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology behind Myspace.com 

message: Given the number of qualifiers that have to be added to the Alexa ranking, should it (and the lengthy explanation) be included in the first paragraph? tregoweth 11:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexa rankings 

message: "Note that this is based on exceptionally intense usage by a relatively limited number of visitors, many more than five English language sites have a higher "reach" measurement, that is they are visited by more different people each day." This sentence sounds... off. Could someone do a grammar/style rewrite? I'm getting writer's block when I try myself. Kalo 21:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar/Style? 

message: This intro is full of "non-intro" information.
"Note that this is based on exceptionally intense usage by a relatively limited number of visitors, many more than five English language sites have a higher "reach" measurement, that is they are visited by more different people each day."
What is the point of having this in the intro? If anything it should be an endnote.
"MySpace has outstripped competitors such as MSN Spaces, Friendster and LiveJournal to become the most popular English-language social networking website with higher traffic and over 74 million registered accounts."
As well as being wordy/awkward, this really doesn't resonate with NPOV. It reads like a sales pitch. Drcwright 20:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro 

message: This is the generally the site to go when trying to find out which MySpacers have died recently.. 
I've posted it upon the Obituary article's external links, but do you think such a link is relevant herein?DrWho42 07:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How many herein not for the inclusion?.. Because it seems to keep on getting deleted sooner or later once I post it... DrWho42 03:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MyDeathSpace.com 

message: Can somebody tell me how MySpace could be far worse than LiveJournal? I frankly don't understand why the blazes MS gets blocked off far more than LJ, when LJ still has at least nearly the amount of obscenity MS has if not more or just as much, and a lot of drama to go with it. --Juigi Kario (Charge! * My crusades) 02:03, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, that's right. MySpace is way more efficient at spreading news. TommyBoy76 12:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MySpace's reputation 

message: I heard on some local news channels in the Los Angeles, CA area (KABC7, for example) that Hart High School had half of it's two thousand students missing due to a rumor spread on MySpace that May 2, 2006 was "Bring A Weapon To School Day." That school had a race-related riot the previous Friday. Just thought that the fact that MySpace was able to spread fear among students and their parents might be interesting, though might seem point of view even though I'm not against MySpace.
::Myspace isn't unique for school rumors, any website can be used and if its interesting enough everone in the school will know about it in about 2 days.Tjb891 02:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  High school riot rumors 

message: Should we put a little thing in about porn robots who message people and send add requests? I am getting these with alarming increasing frequency. 
::Any large community is going to have a variety of issues, unless it's an extreme problem that plaguing the community for a long time, it doesn't sound encyclopedic.  Dbchip 00:12, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm thinking this could get worse but I agree with you. PatrickJ83 06:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Porn robots 

message: It seems to be written by and for MySpace users. And I'm talking about the ones without public profiles. For example:
"There are many people who are making careers out of promotion on MySpace. From bands, to celebrities, to exotic car dealers, many people have found MySpace to be an invaluable tool for advocating their goods and services. There are automated tools known as bots to help aid in increasing ones reach on MySpace. These bots have proven to be effective, yet annoying for many users." 
What's "increasing ones (SIC) reach"? How do the bots serve as an advertising tool? To someone who's never used MySpace it makes very little sense. 
And...
"Below this is the "comments" section, wherein the user's friends may leave comments about the user for all viewers to read. Although comments are publicly acccessible, many users leave personal comments anyway, allowing any reader to know their business. Many MySpace users will choose to moderate comments, meaning they must be approved in order to be viewed by the public. Comments, once posted, may then be deleted by the host of that myspace profile or the person who posted the comment for further editing. "
Very clumsy prose, IMHO. 80.247.91.209 14:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Delete anything that even "remotely" sounds promotional.  This is a commercial free encyclopedia--right?  Livin' Large 23:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This article could do with some tidying up

message: While a section concerning how MySpace is perceived and utilized in the community is needed, the "criticism of MySpace" section was wholly poorly done, and flagged with all manner of cleanup tags. Let's move it here and work on it --FuriousFreddy 00:26, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Criticism of MySpace" 

message: A growing number of the bands and musicians with profiles on MySpace, especially those in the  DIY punk and hardcore scenes, are uneasy with the News Corporation purchase of MySpace.com., 
These concerns are primarily over this clause in the MySpace Terms Of Service:
"By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services."
News Corporation owns thousands of media outlets, including television and radio stations and at least one record label that could be potential sublicensees. MySpace claims that this clause is needed to ensure that it has the right to host member profiles. However, critics point to many sites , that host content for free that do not require posters to relinquish copyright.
If bands were so concerned with the terms of service, they wouldn't break them by spamming people.
The Terms of Service have changed and MySpace no longer has exlclusive rights over posted material... this part of the article should be changed. : )      (just look at the new myspace ToS and go from there) Joenudell 23:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Terms of Service

message: Recently the US Navy blocked access to MySpace from any Navy.mil network, citing acceptable-use policies. Could this be added to the article somewhere? --JimDanger 15:03, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, if you can provide a verifiable source, it don't see why there shouldn't be something on this and other examples of organisations restricting access to the site. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: US Navy block

message: It is kind of an easy task to find out who knows who. Just look at the end of the name with the symbol or letters and compare it to other friends. Do you think there should be an article on that?--MP123 03:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who knows who?

message: A fourteen year old girl is suing MySpace for $20mil for not protecting her. Please update article. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3984459.html?far
Cman 15:42, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexual Assault Suit 

message: I think it's highly appropriate to do so. The news is developing, so there should be a consideration for starting a new article on that case/issue if it blooms over to a full blown legal bonanza. For now, I've written a section on the Myspace wiki. Gunbolt 01:06, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's especially important to cite reputable sources in such a section. -- zzuuzz (talk) 00:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Most definitely.  An issue as sensitive as this requires all the sources, as you said reputable ones, to maintain a npov. Any more addendums would be greatly needed now! Gunbolt 01:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of a 'Legal Issues' section 

message: I'd just like to say that I'm surprised at how massive this page and talk page has gotten since its creation and my time editing it. If I wrote some of the article poorly, I apologize but then that's what wikis are for, aren't they.
By the way, now might be a good time to archive this page. -- Riffsyphon1024 08:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Just a quick mention

message: It says in the article, "...which is followed by a Top Friends area. Originally it allowed members of the website to select up to 8 people from their list of friends to be displayed in a certain order as a default on their profile."
I'm not sure if anyone else has been on myspace long enough to remember, but there actually was a time when you couldn't change your top 8...instead, your default top 8 were the 8 people on your friends list who had been members of myspace the longest.
Spazdev3 20:52, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Top 8

message: I think its important for this article to discuss the different section (areas) that myspace makes available. Most recently i noticed a comedy section. We should have a list of the different sections and then go into detail on some of them. The MAIN one would be the Music section. There are alot of features which can be explained. (Xsxex 13:31, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization (concerning sections)  

message: I was just wondering if there is a MySpace code or template made by Wikipedia to proudly show our support for Wikipedia.  Namely, something that can be used by Wikipedians who also have a MySpace page?  Thanks, any help is appreciated--Merkurix 15:04, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Myspace code

message: I think it would help give a more technilogical edge to the article, instead of just having opinions and historical facts and such. The article is good, and it goes a bit into the technology behind myspace.com, which is quite interesting (for those interested in technology, at least). Talk about it. --CanesOL79 04:29, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we use the HowStuffWorks.com Article on MySpace? 

message: I found this orphaned sub-page: MySpace/Approval of MySpace. It's unreferenced and quite POV so I'm not sure if it'll be useful, but it was certainly relatively lost. -- zzuuzz (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Approval of MySpace sub-page

message: We really do need for this Talk page to be archived away to make way for a clean slate.. I mean, look at it.... It has, already, at least eighty discussions thereon.
Anyone else herein get my drift? 
DrWho42 22:19, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it.  Archiving now. Hbdragon88 00:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page|Archiving]]