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Going online to find The One
C^rlotte 9oiit
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The results of the
Classmates ccnn romance poll
are
• 71 percent think people
will turn to the internet to
find love in 2006
• 70 percent reflect cm their
first love or high school
sweetheart when thinking
about their love life.
• 54 percent thought of
their first love or high school
sweetheart in the last year
• 50 percent said they
would like to be contacted by
an old flame
• 30 percent said they have
been contacted by an old
flame in the last year
• 29 percent have used the
internet to look up or recon
nect with an old boyfiiend or
girlfiiend
• 29 percent think they met
their true love in K-12
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MySpace rising star in internet galaxy
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ComScore Media Metrix
places it fourth by total page
views, two notches above
Google
Compared with rivals’.
MySpace profiles are more
customizable — hence the
“my" in MySpace. Users can
obtain Web programming
code elsewhere to create their
own layouts, change back
ground colors or incorporate
photos and video stored at
other sites. (Friendster,
already trailing MySpace in
usage, added a similar fea
ture last fall.)
■ MySpace gives you more
freedom to express yourself,”
said Zlatan Stankovic, 21, a
sophomore at Hudson Valley
Ck)mmunity College in TVoy,
New York "You can leave dif
ferent kinds of conmients,
pictures, movies, stuff like
that.”
Brad Greenspan, an eariy
MySpace investor no longer
afliliated with the site, said
that after observing
Friendster, "we just realized
that to allow people more per
sonalization and control
would give people more
attachment to their Web
pages.
MySpace profiles are also
more accessible A challenger
named Facebook requires an
affiliation with a high school
or college, while Linkedin
focuses on professionals.
Friendster, meanwhile,
Teen
pageant
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training sessions. “We don't
do it all,” Cobbin said.
‘Tnstructors will be coming in
and conducting their own
classroom work and other
fields of training that will
enhance the giiis’ selfdevel
opment ”
OUver-Cobbin eryoyed
making fiiends with contes
tants during her time as a
pageant contestant, and
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same experience
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McDonald’s
french fries
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lion to settle a siiit by a non-
funfit advocacy group accus
ing the company of mislead
ing consumers by announc
ing plans in September 2002
to change its cocddng oil but
then delaying the switch
indefinitely within months
Reluctant to change the taste
of a top-selling item.
McDonald's has continued to
maintain for the past three
years that testing continues
Asked about the status of
those efforts Monday. Kapsca
said “It’s a very high pricaity
and we are very’ committed to
continuing with testing and
lowtting the level of trans fat
without raising the le\’el cf
saturated fat It’s a lot
harder than we originally
thought but that is not stc^
ping us "
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requires registration before
viewing full profiles.
MySpace not only promotes
openness, it also adds
Anderson as your first fiiend,
immediately connecting you
with everyone else
But ultimately music is
what made MySpace special.
McIntosh’s band can
update fans on new gigs,
when sending too many e-
mail messages mi^t other
wise appear to be spamming.
People who happen to catch a
performance can look up the
band’s MySpace profile and
“fnend it” when they get
home.
Users can easily discover
emerging and independent
artists and instantly hear
their tunes throu^ a built-in
music player.
"All you have to do is press
play,’" said Rob Theakston,
28, Detroit-based music edi
tor for the site AllMusic and a
co-woricer of McIntosh’s.
Other sites, he said, require
you to download a file and
open up a separate player.
Given the success, MySpace
has even started its own
recording label, and it is now
hoping to bring that magic to
filnuuakers, and later to
comedians and fashion
designers, said Clms
DeWolfe, MySpace’s chief
executive.
But success also draws a
spotlight on MySpace’s daric-
er side.
In Middletown,
Connecticut, police suspect
that as many as seven
teenage girls recently were
fondled or had consensual sex
with men they met on
MySpace who turned out to
be older than they claimed.
In schools across the U.S.,
students have been suspend
ed for threatening classmates
on MySpace, and in a case
outside Pittsburg attracting
the attention of the American
Civil Liberties Union, for cre
ating a phony profile under
the principal’s name and
photo. •
Parry Aftab, who runs the
Internet safety group
WiredSafety, said most
MySpace teens behave, but a
good number are creating
online alter egos with which
they brag about nonexistent
drinking and sexual con
quests in a bid to appear cool.
DeWolfe said the company
has worked with WiredSafety
to create guidelines and
improve practices _ dozens of
employees now monitor pro
files and images 24 hours a
day _ and encourages parents
to talk with their kids about
online safety
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