By: Brent Shields -

If by now you have not heard of MySpace or FriendWise then maybe the world is moving too slowly for you. Young adults (teens and college age adults) are using the world of the internet to communicate in ways we had no inkling of a few years ago.

Social networking is booming as young adults find one another online to chat, post comments, post photos, and share info about the latest happenings in their world to their Myspace pages and FriendWise networking sites. It is not always a good thing for sure, but more on that later on.

So how does it work? Well some genius thought up the concept of Myspace, which is basically a free bulletin board for anyone (not just teens) to create a web site that is all about networking and communicating with friends and creating new friends too. Users create a free account, enter information about themselves, in as much or little detail as they want. They then share their site with their friends. Their friends can then post comments on the myspace. It becomes a great big bulletin board of social interaction. The kids are glued to these things and seem to know how to find one another and chase down the latest hot info in a heartbeat.

So what does this mean to communication in the Internet age for teens and young adults? It puts a fancier face on the outpouring of information exchange between teens.

It used to be that only the geeky teens had web pages about themselves. They were the only ones who knew how to build them. Now with these easy to use tools at their disposal every teen or young adult can have a site. That means connections and networking spreads very fast.

The sharing aspect of these sites are not only their good side but also their bad side as well. In the last year many schools and parents have become alarmed at the content of some of these Myspace sites that students have built. In typical teen fashion some kids say on their site what probably should not be said in public. They post as though it were a diary and then it gets spread around. That means that hate and meanness spread within the community quickly. Some schools have cracked down and told students they would be expelled if they do not clean up their sites. Parents, just finding out about the technology and checking it out for the first time become alarmed at the things that are said on these postings.

Of course that aspect comes back to the old thing of parents needing to be in tune with their kids and what is going on in their world. You cannot give a kid a computer and internet access and then walk away and not pay any attention.

The other thing that has raised alarm in this world of social networking is kids will post news of a party in their area, to their site. Instead of getting to "just" their friends it ends up spreading to the whole area. Homes have been overrun by crowds of kids trying to attend parties. One such event even ended with a fatal stabbing when the crowd got to big and unruly.

Now these are the type of things that can happen with or without such social networking sites in teens lives. These sites are not going to fade away. Myspace has over 60 million subscribers and was recently bought by a major corporation. They intend to make a lot of money off these sites for years to come. After all it is a very juicy target market for advertising revenue.

Brent is a regular writer for www.home-n-family.com - for more home and family related information please visit www.home-n-family.com

If you haven't joined FriendWise yet you are missing out as this social networking site has all the features myspace has plus has many more features myspace doesn't. Take a look at http://www.FriendWise.com

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Author: Brett Hull

When we want to create or edit our myspace profiles, we must add or manipulate a piece of HTML and CSS code. The problem is just that not everyone know how to code and is not interested in that part either.

So what are you going do? Well, you will probably look on all these myspace layout sites. There is surely something interesting that you can find, but you are limited to the current range only. There's nothing that is designed exactly after your wishes. If you want to copy something from these sites then you probably need to be able to edit the code later on, to ensure that you get the layout exactly the way you want it to look.

As long as you aren't interested in learning the programming languages CSS and HTML, there's a great option left to use. An automatic layout creator such as Thomas myspace editor. This code-generating-machine will output quality code that makes your profile attractive. It is very easy to use, just edit some options and then press the enter key and the code-machine will give you a sample of code that is includes exactly the design properties that you wanted to have.

There's probably many other myspace-code-creators out on the web, but this is probably the best one that you can get. This excludes the spammy impression that you would get with many other tools. Instead, it gives a fresh and upward feeling, as long as you want that to be designed.

If you still think that this is not really your way, then there is other good options too. You can ask a webmaster to do the layout for you and in return give him or her a link to his or her web-site. Webmasters usually love such offers.

Another way is to buy a layout. Ask a webmaster to create a good-looking layout for your myspace profile for 5 or 10 dollars. This may sound cheap, but for many webmasters, it's gold.

Now there's no excuse left for having a spammy myspace profile. Improve it and your friends will simply love it.

I am Brett Hull, an expert on myspace layouts.
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You can also find free MySpace Codes at http://www.SpaceMyCodes.com you can also you these MySpace Codes on http://www.FriendWise.com

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You know, I've been writing articles on the Internet for over 2 years now and it never seems to amaze me how slow I am to pick up on new phenomena that keep springing up on the World Wide Web. Just as I hear about some really cool website/web concept, I am then told about a new one that everyone else already knows about. Well, this time I feel like a total recluse. I've been walking around in my own head-space not realizing that one of the most popular sites in the world, http://www.myspace.com/ is where much of the human community is getting together to share 'space', or if you want to look at it another way, to share life.

People are connecting with each other on the Internet for many different reasons, and most of them can be done here. Myspace.com is currently receiving more page views than the popular Google search engine, around 10 billion per month. It is essentially a social networking base-station, a place to meet and connect with other people for any and every reason imaginable. At first it looks a little like a dating site, which is definitely a huge aspect of its existence, as romantic and intimate interaction is such a massive priority in the lives' of humanity. Where it goes a few large steps further is with its integration of communication mediums and networking tools. You can have your own blog, record your own MP3 music files, and even make videos for all of your 'friends' to check out. (If you want your movie or song to get out there, make as many friends as you can!) Each person's web pages can be creatively original in their own right which brings out the uniqueness of each personality. Friendship is the main driving force behind this postmodern 'movement'. On-line groups of friends who have connected because of similar interests (there are many different categories) get to choose who they want to share their information with, so in essence, you choose who you want to meet. It is working well, as is testified by over 20 million users currently joining every month.

One obvious impact that this site has had on social and economic structures is in the music industry. If you go to the 'music' category (thousands of groups of people into similar music are listed) you will find that many bands have put up pages offering a few of their songs to download for free. I'm not talking about famous bands that you hear on radio or see on TV (although they too are joining in- and getting better sales than ever before). I'm talking about no-name groups that we never would have gotten an opportunity to hear before. Without the aid of heavy marketing, airplay, and record label support, some bands are selling millions of records. This is totally knocking out the concept of the 'middleman'. Production and promotion costs are low, and revenue that used to be obtained from CD sales is now being made by merchandise that devoted fans are ready and willing to buy. To put it bluntly, these bands are giving up their day jobs and making a healthy living without the help of the mass-market and its Top 40 hit lists.

This is a new level of social interaction. Bands are realizing that to relate to their audience, the best way is to humbly communicate with them one-on-one. Imagine the feeling of being able to send and receive emails and photos with your idols. Well, that's the ticket. Some bands are spending a lot of time on the email, and the result is a fan-base that is dedicated on a direct human being to human being level. Updating their blogs and downloadable songs regularly is quickly bringing visitors back again, making for an audience that stands by their favorite groups. Rock stars used to be untouchable, 'more-than-human' people who lived separately from the rest of us with their mansions and limousines. Now the paradigm is shifting and we are realizing they are just talented people, people like you and me.

The key to this new freedom-based communication is in Chinese whispers: Word-of-mouth. Through electronic messaging, people are spreading the word about the next cool thing faster than ever imagined. Whole groups are informing other highly defined and connected groups about which film is worth going to watch at the theater, which TV show is the one to see, and which people are spreading the 'right' messages in their blogs. It's spelling the end of programmed media. People are getting to read, listen, and watch what they are interested in, without having to change the channel or stand in line at the music store. You also have the opportunity to meet many others who are interested in the same things as yourself. The need to go on blind dates or cruise local bars is diminishing as you can read into people's personalities by seeing what they write and say about the world.

The days of being hounded by company marketers into buying an album could be on its way out. The paradoxical thing is a huge percentage of the total world web's advertising is done on this one site! The two worlds are colliding in an age-old clash that is causing some to wonder how long this great thing will last. How many times have you seen a cool band's music suddenly decrease in magic once they started making it big in the commercial realm? Sell-outs we call them. Well Myspace just got bought up by one of the richest men in the world, Rupert Murdoch. When you join Myspace the first friend you automatically connect with is Tom Anderson, one of the original founders of the site. He looks like a normal guy. He's 29 years old, into contemporary culture...a lot of girls send him email comments-I hope it's not just because he's rich! It was this guy's identity that struck a chord with so many normal people. Rupert Murdoch might be cool in the eyes of the Fortune 500 but to the rest of us we know he's not going to be having chats about the latest O.C. TV show or his cherry red 57' Chevy (there's a category for car maniacs). Could the sellout factor take away the great possibilities this site has to offer? Will people give up on it, or stick with because of its original ideals? Will your space and my space become 'his' space? We'll have to wait and see. I still think it's awesome.

Jesse S. Somer is seeing the human community come together like he never could have imagined. Social structures are changing because we are all thinking for ourselves more. Will the scent of the billionaire taint this new perfume of the 'informed consumer'?
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Thier is a new online community social networking site that is growing quickly due to the fact that it has all the features MySpace has plus many more features with FriendWise http://www.FriendWise.com