Myspace Profile Page Assumptions

It is amazing to me how technology has changed our way of life. Just keeping in touch with friends after high school has become so much easier because of websites like Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, and LiveJournal. But these sites can also be extremely dangerous…just about anyone can see what you put on the internet. Once you put it there, it is no longer private. And while someone might think that only their friends are interested in their day-to-day activities, that is rarely the case. The internet has become a tool for people other than your friends, including universities and potential employers.

As I browsed through Myspace, I quickly came across a profile that drew my eye. The user is a teenage girl whose profile picture is a shot of her kissing another girl. And by clicking on the picture, her entire profile was revealed, telling the viewer everything about her from age and hometown, to family life and interests, to what she wants in the opposite sex.

Her profile wallpaper is very colorful with different polka dots of every shade of green, yellow, blue, and pink. This relays to me that she is a very outgoing person. There are several different quotes and sayings posted throughout the page, including “Love is giving someone the power to break your heart but trusting them not to.” This tells me that she is a girl who is full of emotions about love and finding “the one.” She also has taken several online personality quizzes and surveys, which to me means that she isn’t completely comfortable with her true personality and needs to have a childish quiz tell her about herself.

Overall, I don’t think there is anything listed on her profile that would make a potential employer turn her down, but I also don’t think that everything listed on her profile is actually true. Online quizzes can only tell you so much about a person, and until you personally talk to her face-to-face, I don’t think it’s possible to get a true feeling for what type of a person this girl really is.