MySpace Home and Forum Pages
MySpace was available as an online website but could be accessed through other devices on their browsers. As demand grew for a mobile setting, the company behind the site partnered with AT&T (formerly known as Cingular Wireless) to bring a mobile app to AT&T customers and later to all with MySpaceIM. MySpace, in every sense of the word, was an all-encompassing website. There were so many ways users were able to consume content on the app. On the home page itself, there are several pages of different interests, events, forums, etc, that users were able to access and interact with. There were hundreds of chatrooms and forums dedicated to various topics. Reviewing old screenshots of the website, there were topics like Grade My Prof. (which seems like the oldest version of Rate My Professor), Comedy, Sports, Music, etc.
This is one of the earliest examples of sites that use an in-your-face tactic to make you consume the site in more quantities. Every user visit and profile created on the website guaranteed an increase in income. By adding so many different topics to a social networking app, users will feel like everything they need to know of, anyone they could talk to, or anything they could promote, could be done through the website. This same format is used later on by other major networking sites, but MySpace created the foundation. This goes without saying that because MySpace was the most popular social networking site for the majority of the 2000s, their ideas and plans of consumption worked to a tee until they didn’t anymore...