Social Network Summary and Critique

Myspace seems to be a gigantic social and entertainment search engine. It covers music, video, film, blogs, events and much more. After a little practice, I was able to navigate through the site quite easily and did a Myspace Google search in order to find the corresponding topics I was interested in. Although, to attain full access to the sites, I had to login as a member. I spent the majority of my time looking through the people section of the site. I typed in the names of some random people as well as some that I knew and thought might have a site. After spending an hour or two on Myspace, I soon realized that the majority of the profiles were young people looking for friends or relationships. I also discovered that many people I knew lied about themselves on a regular basis.

First I looked up my friend Keith, he has been divorced for about six years. He had a younger picture of himself on his in-laws deck, a place he hasn’t been for many years. He seemed to have forgotten about his two children and had few pictures of some sexy women on his page, that I am sure he has never met. He will have a lot of explaining to do if someone decides to check him out.

Next I thought it would be fun to check my name out. I found a 34 year old Brian Moser from Florida, whom had 34 friends listed. They were mostly women and into the whole deep dark gothic seen. He only had a few friends that kept in contact with him, but they were very interesting characters.

Lastly, I found another Brian Moser whom lived in Florida as well, but was 37 years old. This guy was quite different. He had no friends and claimed to be a serial killer. His blog described how he killed and cut up hookers. He also talked of finding his long lost brother Dexter Morgan. I can’t figure out why no one wanted to contact him. He sort of looks like the other Brian Moser, so I’m guessing this is a hoax. Although you can never tell, those Brian Mosers can be a pretty unpredictable bunch.