• You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's a safe bet, your kids have.

  It's a social networking sites — sort of a cyber combination of a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than  50 million members, its one of the fastest growing Web sites in the country.

  Shannon Sullivan, teenager: Everyone has a MySpace and everyone wants a My Space.

• You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's a safe bet, your kids have.

  It's a social networking sites — sort of a cyber combination of a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than  50 million members, its one of the fastest growing Web sites in the country.

  Shannon Sullivan, teenager: Everyone has a MySpace and everyone wants a My Space.

• You may never have heard of MySpace.com, but it's a safe bet, your kids have.

  It's a social networking sites — sort of a cyber combination of a yearbook, personal diary and social club. The biggest of them is MySpace.com. With more than  50 million members, its one of the fastest growing Web sites in the country.

  Shannon Sullivan, teenager: Everyone has a MySpace and everyone wants a My Space.

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• What Is MySpace? The History Of A Phenomenon

   

   

   

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  It’s difficult to imagine an Internet without MySpace, isn’t it? Believe it or not, there was no such thing as a MySpace until the year 2003. A similar social networking site called Friendster had launched in 2002, and employees of a company called eUniverse who were members of Freindster decided that they could do much better themselves.

   

  At first, Myspace was populated only by employees of eUniverse. This was done intentionally to keep the site from being so “empty” when other users came along. eUniverse then held contests to see which employee could sign up the most new members, and MySpace was soon the top social networking site of all. In fact, people left Friendster en masse to join and use MySpace instead to interact with friends and co-workers. MySpace allowed much more user customization than Friendster did, and kids and adults both enjoyed the challenge of making their MySpace layouts look just the way they wanted them to appear

• IT seems a hazy memory, but Keith Wilson, a spiky-haired club promoter, can recall what it was like before MySpace - about two years ago. Back then people had normal names like "Joe" or "Keith."

  "People don't call me 'Keith,' " he said, straining to be heard as cascades of power chords rumbled from the stage at Boardner's, a club just off Hollywood Boulevard, on a mid-August Wednesday night. "They call me 'Keith 2.0,' because that's my MySpace name. That guy over there, he's 'Joeymachine.' Everyone has a MySpace name now."