The same reason Grand Theft Auto blew the Gaming Industry, you are free to do what you want while secretly being curbed.

myspace is the internet for 14 year olds, as they get more advanced, myspace will die a quick death.

myspace is for people not smart enough to get into college and have a facebook account. There, I said it.

I find the biggest problem with MySpace is that it's just so gosh-darn ugly. The only reason I use it at all is because I'm a local musician and it helps me keep track of who's actually listening. However, I have no idea how it gained this type of prominence in the first place.

I really never expected MySpace to become the monster it has become. When I heard that it was popular with bands and their fans, it didn't hit me just how quickly people would be washing into the site. So I stuck with Friendster. Then one day I logged into my Myspace account I'd set up, and I noticed there were tons more people than were on Friendster. Yes, it's user interface is a pain. Yes, it's missing some features one might think were critical (such as easy to use Instant Messaging). But it has the one feature you have to have to be successful in social networking: people. And tons of them. It doesn't matter how ugly it is, how awkward the site is. You go on to those sites to hook up with people you know or people you want to know. As long as Myspace doesn't screw up, it will be to this decade what AOL was to the previous decade.

Myspace is not yet what it will someday (soon) become. Remember, Rupert Murdoch owns it. He's named his new network MyNetwork. A coincidence? I think not.

The FOX owned and operated stations recently floated plans for changing their URLs to things like mynewyork.com and myla.com.

NewsCorp will see to it that MySpace becomes a very important portal for 'repurposing' episodes of your favorite FOX shows, video on demand, local newscasts and who knows what else!

YouTube's popularity is pretty much a given, so onto my inevitable myspace rant.

Most of myspace's popularity boils down to sheer egoism. No longer are those silly, shallow teens stuck on xanga, where they could write about themselves and essentially demand responses, with myspace they don't even have to go through all that trouble. Put up ridiculous looking photos to show off their hotness, recieve oversupportive comments, no soliciting required. Who wants to take the time to write out complete sentences then there's super cool party people to make out with, anyway?
However, by making the blogging option available, that attacts the more intellectual egoists, who desire respect not only for their ability to take a cute picture but also to write a few profound statements on the ways of the world. Nevermind that anything you have to say will automatically sound 50 times stupider when said on myspace.
Then, of course, there's the music. This is about the only redeeming factor of myspace, as far as I can tell. Nevermind that there's so many people on there all the time that the server's always overloaded so that listening to a song takes all year.
As for the layout, I don't know how people volunteerily deal with that. The thing is so ugly and unnavicable it's absurd. I once tried to design a layout for it using divs, but it was such a headache to design that I gave up the moment I remembered that I loathe and therefore often do not use myspace as it is.

In short, kids these days. I do try not to judge my peers, but it can't be helped; it's too true.

Jason Anderson (again):

Sorry, didn't realise that the HTML would be stripped from my comment:

VLC Player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

iSquint - http://www.isquint.org/

Jason Anderson:

An FLV file is just a Flash Video file, which you can download using a number of methods, and play on a Mac using VLC Player, or convert using iSquint

Merriam-Webster do say that (http://m-w.com/dictionary/phenomena), but I think they're full of it, too. They cite usage of "phenomenas" as plural but list no examples. I think "phenomenons" as a possible plural is much less egregious, but even that's a little iffy. I suppose "phenomenas" might have a place when describing multiple *groups* of phenomena -- essentially a plural of a plural -- but, in this case, I don't think that applies.

Which is all pretty tedious and pedantic. But, then, so too is a lot of YouTube and MySpace.

Why is a site with tons of free and sometimes illictly posted video clips popular? Gee, I wonder. As for MySpace...well you should never discount loneliness, stalkers, or the the hope of seeing the occasional boobie.