MySpace is as current as it can get without alienating people with slower browsers or small laptop computers with limited wifi options nearby (so I don’t buy that Facebook is growing in popularity because it is supposedly more “advanced”).

I don’t think it’s so much of an issue of MySpace staying ahead of the technological curve as much as it is staying open and accessible. Too many profiles are full of useless, sparkly crap and code-intensive doohickeys that make me wait two minutes just to read a vaccuous, abridged profile with no depth (other than what the person’s 100 favorite bands are). People have a view of MySpace being a “party site” and those users who take themselves seriously go to Facebook because it’s clean, uniform and fast to use.

On Facebook you’re likely to see someone’s real name and an organized layout of information about that person. On MySpace, however, you’ll be looking for Jenny Smith and never find her … only to see days later that she changed her name to *~~*REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (I LOVE HIM!)*~~~*.

Another thing: MySpace AND Facebook have caved in to pressure and have added “private profile” options to appease stalker-phobes and moral anarchists who like to live double lives in public and private. I think this has chisled away at the whole point of social networking, and turned both sites into a network of cliques rather than a worldwide “extended network.” Private profiles have hurt MySpace, which relies on freedom of access more so than the ever-so-uniform Facebook.