MySpace - the Epitome of Evil?

Hello, and welcome to my Professional Portfolio. My name is Sez and i will be your guide on this journey of (my) discovery.

As a 'digital native', the decision to make my Portfolio electronic was an automatic one. Having grown up as the internet did, my discovery of new websites, technologies and digital activities was limited, much like everything else, only by the amount of effort i was willing to exert to discover them.

I'm an active member on a few internet forums, most of them music-based. In 2004 i made the change from consumer to prosumer, when i started avidly blogging on my blogspot. in 2005, i joined MySpace, a relatively unheard of webiste community at that stage.

When i started writing this post, two or so weeks ago, i planned to talk about MySpace, and the recent media coverage it's recieved, due to Carly Ryan's murder. however, given that that's pretty much died down now, it'd be pretty pointless and irresponsible for me, as a media student, to talk about such old news.

so, i shall talk about the newest addition to the BBCode family.
BBCode is... well i actually have no idea what it stands for, but its used on a lot of forums, and other websites, in addition to, or often instead of, HTML [used on blogs, myspace etc.] it uses [square brackets], and is often simpler to use than html, for example, to give someone a link...

[url]http://www.TheLinkGoesHere.com[/url]

and the newest addition...

[youtube]VideoCodeHere[/youtube]

when i discovered this, i was actually greatly amused. it does, i suppose, make sense, seeing as the html kids can use the 'embed' code, but it was interesting to see how much more 'user-friendly' the internet is becoming.

sort of like blogger. recently, there were a lot of [mostly unseen] changes made to blogger, but one of the main ones is the changes to the edit template screen. this is what the old editing screen looked like...

no it's not, because, with the new blogger, the uploading of photos has changed, and right now it won't let me. but pretty much, with the old one, you edited the html directly, whereas with the new one, it was completely visually based.

i have to say that i prefer the old, simply because you can completely customise your blog. i mean, you can probably customise it completely with this too, i just find it more difficult.

thus, in making it 'easier', the developers have, in fact, hindered my blogging experience.

in conclusion, i have no conclusion to this strange, rambly 'first' post.
thanks for reading...