Digital Overload Among Digital Natives?
Topic: Personal Blogs
I had dinner with a couple of digital natives a couple of nights ago. The topic of MySpace came up in the conversation. Both said they have pages there, as do all of their friends. I asked them why they used MySpace and they told me that it was a great way to stay in touch with friends from high school and college. They also told me that they really had no interest in meeting new people there, that keeping up with people they actually knew was time consuming enough. Both agreed that they only listed people they actually know in their list of friends.

They also said that they thought that MySpace is getting too big. "In fact," one told me, "A lot of my friends are now changing their profiles to say they're 14 years old." Why? Apparently this automatically makes their profiles private, preventing messages from uninvited people. Another example of digital overload?



Tag: MySpace