The company’s website, MySpace.com, touts itself as “a place for friends.”  It asks you to consider whether you really are “six people away from Kevin Bacon.”  The website is free and open to everyone, including friends who want to chat online; single people who wish to meet other single people; do-it-at-home matchmakers who want to match their friends up with other friends; families who wish to stay in contact; business people who want to network with other business people; classmates and students looking for potential study partners; and anyone looking for long-lost friends.  Certainly, you must have found yourself in one of those categories—thereby making you a perfect candidate for MySpace.com!

Known as a social networking website, MySpace.com has become the fourth most popular English-language website on the Internet and the third most popular website in the United States.  The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, is owned by News Corporation, and employs roughly 300 staff members.  The 106 millionth MySpace.com account was opened on September 8, 2006, and the website reportedly achieves upwards of 230,000 new registrations per day.   Now that’s popularity!

So, what exactly can you do by making a home at MySpace.com?  The website provides you with an interactive network of friends, which you set up, personal profiles, videos, music, chat groups, and blogs.  It also has its own internal search engine and an internal email system.

In addition to being home to your high friends, family members from Kentucky, and your fellow kindergarten teachers, MySpace.com is also home to a large variety of filmmakers, comedians, musicians, and other little- and well-known celebrities.  These artists upload their short films, songs, and other productions directly into their MySpace.com profile.  Not surprisingly, having celebrities call MySpace.com home has added much to the website’s growing appeal.

So, how do you sign up, you ask?  It’s simple, according to the website’s instructions.  Your first step is to sign up and create a profile by visiting the MySpace.com website.  Your profile becomes your home on the web, where you describe yourself:  your interests, occupation, hobbies, etc.  You can also upload pictures and keep a journal here.   Next, you invite your friends to join your own personal network.  You can also search MySpace.com’s website to find friends who are already members are MySpace.com.  Once you’ve set up your network of friends, you can view the connections you’ve created between your friends and your friends’ friends.  Amazingly, some people find upwards of 1,000 people in their extended MySpace.com network.  Finally, it’s time to meet those folks in your extended network.  You can suggest matches and communicate with anyone in your network.

It is important to note that being a member of MySpace.com is almost but not quite like being at home.  In fact, one of its major criticisms is that the distance afforded by the Internet emboldens members to share too much of themselves.  The website has been caught up in controversies involving minor children involvement, indecency, and privacy.  The company’s privacy policy attends to all of these issues but seems to have difficulty enforcing the rules.  Teenagers have found ways around the minimum 14-year-old registration age and profile identity theft is reportedly fairly common.  As with any place where you share personal information about yourself, think and act wisely before and when you decide to come home at MySpace.com

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With over 100 million members and a new member sign-up rate of over 230,000 per day, MySpace.com has understandably become one of the most popular websites on the Internet.  In fact, it is the fourth most popular English-language website in the world and the third most popular website in the United States—visited even more than Google and ebay.  Comedians, imagine the potential audience you could find on MySpace.com, and, comedy lovers, your daily comedy fix can now be a lot easier to find.

MySpace.com recently added a comedy section to its line-up of social offerings. Sponsored by Sierra Mist, the goal of the new effort is to create revenue on the website, which makes all of its money from advertising.  While the Comedy Section includes content from MySpace.com users, it is not wholly user-generated.  Most of the content appears to be commercial or commercially sponsored content.

According to Pali Research’s Richard Greenfield, “Comedy also increases the use of viral video within MySpace as the comedy section is inherently linked into the ‘Videos’ section of Myspace. Comedy also increases the community aspect of MySpace, as users can add individual comedians…to their friends list and be alerted to live performances.”

You can access MySpace’s Comedy Section from the MySpace.com homepage. You need not be a member of MySpace to view the comedy content.  Once on the Comedy page, you will find the MySpace featured comedians, which features links to their MySpace personal profiles.   You’ll also find a Sketch Comedy section, which includes a featured comedian, where you’ll find upwards of 500 sketch comedy listings.  A line-up of featured videos is sure to entertain your funny bone.  Some are sneak previews of upcoming movie releases, while others are member-generated comedic videos.

MySpace.com presents Comedy Spotlights as well.  Here you can find different physical venues for catching good comedy.  Hot acts are listed here with their presentation dates, clubs, and cities.  Check it out for good live comedy finds.

The Improv Presents section of the webpage hosts pick-of-the-week improvisation recommendation.   In addition to reading a blurb about the week’s comedian, you will also find a link to his or her personal profile page.  There’s also an Improv Video Pick that you can watch for laughs.

You can also search for comedians and try your hand at cracking jokes in one of the MySpace.com comedy forums. While you can view the forum messages as a non-member, you will need to join up in order to post a funny or respond to someone else’s joke.  A list of top comedians and comedian gigs can also be found on the MySpace Comedy page.

Whether you are a comedian looking to share your laughs or a comedy lover looking for some laughs, MySpace has your ticket.  Join the social networking giant to post and laugh about your own jokes, and you may even find yourself featured on the MySpace Comedy Section.  Who knows, you may find yourself hooked up with a job on MySpace.com’s Comedy Gigs!

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