The Catalyst

By Alex Woomer, Reporter

Only a handful of the hundreds of students attending Fruita Monument have not at one time or another owned a myspace account, but MySpace is overrated.

Myspace was originally created to a be social networking system where teens and young adults could communicate in their own space and has obviously since served its intention with over 120 million members, but is Myspace losing popularity and are high school students out-growing the site? The basic fact is that Myspace has achieved an incredible victory by making having a myspace account the “thing to do.” Tanner Stone, a sophomore attending Fruita and owner of a Myspace account said, “I used to get on Myspace all the time. Then I just stopped. My friends never got on and it seemed like a big waste of time.” Although he currently still owns an account, he very seldom logs onto it. Since the year 2003 when Myspace was first founded, high school and middle school teenagers around the world have been hooked to the addicting social website.

However, some wonder whether Myspace is more a place for promiscuous girls than it is a place for friends. Senior Aliesha Wimberly said, “Basically, Myspace has turned into a website where girls can post promiscuous pictures of themselves on the internet for the entire world to see.”

With the newer social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace has turned into a more juvenile site for younger people and is taken less seriously by high schoolers McKenna Cyphers said, “Facebook is the new Myspace and in a couple more years there will be a new site that will take Facebook’s place.”

Although Myspace still has far greater members and publicity than other sites of the same nature, perhaps Myspace has hit its peak and is on its own decline of popularity.