The Drama of MySpace

MySpace is a very popular social networking Web site that most of us have used (or you know someone who has). MySpace is an interactive network of friends, personal profiles, free groups, blogs, pictures, music, videos and so much more. MySpace is the number one social networking site in the United States. Constantly growing with an average of 230,000 new users per day.

Many teens in Jr. high and high school are often on MySpace, gossiping about their latest news or news about their friends. This can cause drama, leading to a person that will instigate a fight with another person on MySpace by portraying that person in a negative or just disgusting manner. Most the time not even being true. People will start blogs, leave comments or send messages about their peers to start rumors. This will happen with or without technology, young ones starting drama and rumors. However, when it is typed you sometimes cannot take it back even if you wanted to. A girl can also leave provocative messages or comments on friend's boyfriends page this way without having to deal with face to face. The majority of the reason people will say more negative or derogatory things on MySpace is because you do not have to face the person.

The drama always ends up affecting both parties in real life, along with other friends that may have gotten caught up in the drama. It is always a lose/lose situation for all. And not too mention a very immature approach at bullying. The pointless insulting, bickering, and backstabbing is all just nonsense and may most the time be done by the teen crowd, is a lot of the time being done by adults now.

Grown men and women posting nasty rumors about each other on MySpace has been a growing concern. It really stoops to a new low level for all participating. Marriages have even been said to end or be troubled, MySpace has even been the blame for adultery. If you trust your partner and they trust you it should not even be an issue, when someone on MySpace tries to intervene in that trust you two have for each other, then you both simply ignore and block the drama starter. I wish more and more would follow this, instead they get caught up in it usually back lashing and causing it to grow into something even worse.

Many complain and have spoken and written about the MySpace drama that will continue on, such as the Author of "He Wrote, She Wrote Bullsh**" among with many other fed up bloggers. It is also very easy for one to make themselves out to be someone they are not on MySpace. When they return to real life it may make it more difficult.

MySpace is supposed to be a great fun way of using technology to share photographs, keep in touch with loved ones, make new friends, and talk about your latest events in your life. With the immature growing behavioral patterns of bashing on MySpace it makes it harder for some to enjoy what it was intended for in the first place.

Cited Source:

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~elizabeth_ponder/drama.html