The MySpace Generation

theodp writes "They live online. They buy online. They play online. Their power is growing. BusinessWeek reports on The MySpace Generation, aka Generation @, for whom being online is a way of life. Preeminent among the virtual hangouts is MySpace.com, who boasts 40 million members and claimed the No. 15 spot on the entire U.S. Internet. And in When murder hits the blogosphere, MSNBC reports on MySpace's sometimes surreal role in popular news stories."

Old Ideas

[SteevR]

Not that this guy [alexkrupp.com] was the first to postulate that interconnectedness would change culture irrevocably in the near-future timeframe either. But I think the essay linked above cuts a little closer to the core issue; Businessweek just now caught on to what has been a rolling snowball in the internet world for what, 4 years now?

Re:I hope our youth likes giving away it's rights

[Anonymous Coward]

This is no longer true. Section 5c of the Myspace T&C has changed. It now reads:

c. By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to MySpace.com the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Website. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties and fees owing any person by reason of any Content you post on the Website.

Read it for yourself [myspace.com]; parent: Please stop spreading false information.

Re:Its time to let go...

[Seumas]

I'm just a little older than you and you are understimating the idiotastic power of compound stupidity. When you and I were kids, the stupidity was compounded by ourselves and a small handful of friends. Now, it's compounded by the hundreds of people on your "myspace" list or whatever they use to interconnect people along with all the random people that stumble along and talk with you. And at least we didn't have middle aged perverts trying to pick up on us via email and our pages trying to take advantage of the fact that we're insecure and deprived of daddy's attention and spending all of our time on the internet because we can't face real people and eventually hook up with said creepy old dude.

No good can come of harnessing the vast resource of stupidity.

Re:But they reserve the right...

[Lehk228]

that's stupid. it would take about 5 minutes or less for the judge to throw out the claims of exclusive license from the amended terms. also you cannot transfer copyright without a WRITTEN AGREEMENT.

Re:Generation Labels

[SpacePunk]

'X' was named that because either nobody could think of a name, or nobody 'got' us. There's no need too use a 'y' designation other than it follows after 'x', but that just denote lazyness.

It would be more honest too name generations by world/national economic/political gain/loss. For instance, there is the 'Lost Generation' (yes, I know it formally pertains too writers in the early 1900s, but it's been broadly applied), but what makes them the 'Lost Generation' could be applied too several generations that came before them, and perhaps too the current generation that seems too be holding the limelight. Things tend to follow cycles, and a lot of it just happens over and over again when the previous generation(s) have forgotten about what went on before. Fashion, for instance, comes full circle about every 27 years. Broad generational attitudes could come full circle every 100 years or more.

Re:The Free Market of MySpace

[Liam Slider]

Anarcho-socialism (what you and many others seem to be spouting as the one true "anarchism" ) is an oxymoron. Anarchism opposes the state and socialism requires the state in order to survive.

Re:The Free Market of MySpace

[Lemmy Caution]

I'm not into the whole MySpace thing because I'm past the age when I need to present myself and my life as a spectacle. It's a developmental stage thing, and I say that without being condescending.

That said, it should be respected as a form of writing and publishing. If a friend or love-interest of yours has published their writing somewhere and asked you to look at it by sending you a link, then it is simply rude and obnoxious to say, "no, I want you to go back, cut and paste it, and send it to me." I, for one, would tell you to take a running leap.

Re:Its just more visible

[noamsml]

With all due lack of respect, I want to contest your claim. By using one example, you conclude about a whole set of people. Needless to say, you are wrong. I could show proof, but I don't need to, your claim is inherently wrong, since you start with an outlandish claim and provide as proof only one example.

I mean, sure, many teenagers may be fucking morons, but then again, somehow I remember that it was another age group who re-elected the president that went to a war of favoritism in which we could not possibly win. And since I am a teenager, I can tell you that many of the teenagers I see, including those who may seem like fucking morons, have depth of their own. Fucking moronedness is more in the judgements of the observer than in the mind of the observed.

And frankly, taste in music or clothes does not determine one's fucking moronedness, it is more a matter of weather they care about things that are significant in life, taste in music not being one of them.

In fact, I think that, a student being randomly chosen, it is more likeley than not that he or she will not be a fucking moron. Sure, I know a few people in my sphere of social reference whome I may consider fucking morons, but one does not taint the group. I also know many teenage activists, many people who have interesting things to say, who know what they're doing and why.