print email comment close How MySpace Works URL: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/social-networking/networks/myspace.htm Description: This introduction to the prominent social networking site Myspace describes what it "really is, what it can do for you, [and] how it blew past the competition." Discusses how the idea of social networking is applied online ("It's the simple act of expanding the number of people you know by meeting your friends' friends, their friends' friends and their friends' friends' friends."). Also addresses safety issues. From How Stuff Works. Author: Layton, Julia Publisher: HowStuffWorks, Inc. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Social networks Web sites LII Database Information: Record 21543 created by Maria Brandt on 05/15/2006 Last modification on 09/14/2009 Published: 05/18/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21543