Sunday, August 28, 2005

MySpace: Hip Hangout or A Place for Dolts ?

I have been posting about CyWorld, the "minihompy" site that is currently not available in English, but will be in 2006. Tied to that has been the thread about "DLA"s or digital lifestyle aggregators. MySpace.com is one of the social network sites that does some DLA. Myspace.com got a write up in the NYTimes (registration required) that made me want to drop my newsprint and run to my computer and sign up. Yet, a little bit of looking found there might be some problems with MySpace, of the security kind. MySpace: A Place for Dolts || kuro5hin.org: "What was at first a simple practical joke or internet 'magic trick' that could be used to impress or confuse your friends was now a massive security breach that could, with a little effort and know-how, enable snooping into, or even compromising of, people's accounts."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you possibly tell me when the English version of Cyworld is being released? And will it be possible to register for it in the UK, or only the USA?
Thanks^^

barbara i said...

I visited S.K. and the CyWorld headquarters in June, of 2005. At that time, the news was that CyWorld would be introduced in English in the second quarter of 2006, so it will be a while yet.