To begin to understand about the history and controversy surrounding MySpace, you need to understand a little about what MySpace is all about. Dubbed as a “social networking website”, MySpace offers a place for people to link together, interact with each other and develop and maintain friendships over the world wide web. In addition to sharing blogs and information about their lives, people on MySpace can also share groups, music, videos and photos through their MySpace website. It is estimated that MySpace is the fourth most popular English website and the third most popular in the United States. Users have the unique option of keeping their MySpace website very public for everyone to see, to keep it private—only for their eyes, or have it protected where only invited members can view their page.

How did MySpace grow so rapidly? The answer comes when you take a look at the history behind MySpace. When you consider that there are about 23,000 new MySpace accounts opened each day, it is hard to believe that this website was just started in 2003. In July 2003, a man named Tom Anderson conceived the idea of MySpace along with Chris DeWolfe. It took these two men and a small group of computer programmers to get the site up and running. Before long, word of mouth and advertising launched MySpace into household name.

It was in 2006 that some people began to question the original beginnings of MySpace. A young journalism student with a lot of research found some “facts” that detailed the history of MySpace and it’s founders. What is now known as an extremely popular social networking website that is accessed my millions, might have been originally designed to delivery spam to exploit the website Friendster, a lesser-known social networking site. This other social networking site had used mass advertising to gain users and not word of mouth like MySpace. MySpace founders may have actually wanted to exploit this website and may have never intended for MySpace to grow into a phenomenon that it is today. While there are no hard facts to support these claims, it is widely speculated that this was the original idea behind MySpace and when this article was published, no one associated with MySpace would comment on the accusations.

In addition to the controversy surrounding the history of MySpace, there are all kinds of questions popping up about the actual safety of using MySpace. There are always news stories about stalkers and criminals looking to get personal information about teens using MySpace. The site has taken many safety measures to help everyone have a safe and fun time using MySpace.

Whatever the hard facts are about the history of MySpace, no one can argue about the popularity of this website. While this social networking website is most popular in English speaking countries, primarily the United States, the site is reaching out internationally. It certainly will not be long before teenagers and college students from all over the world will be accessing MySpace and building their own personal profiles and websites. If you are a MySpace user, you can be certain that this ever-popular social networking site is here to stay for a very long time with very little thought about the history or original intentions of the site.

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