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October 06, 2006, 02:31 PM ET
MySpace? You Can Have It
Gabe Henderson, a graduate student at Iowa State University, has done something that many college students could barely fathom: He’s cancelled his MySpace account.
The social-networking site can be addictive, even thrilling, for new users, Mr. Henderson writes in the Iowa State Daily. But “with MySpace I realized how easy it became to have and maintain ‘friends’ in my life,” he adds. “I started to feel dissatisfied by the ease and convenience of it all.”
Considering the site more carefully, he recoils at the notion of “entire human beings, full of complexities, nuances, beliefs, etc., being reduced to quick little remarks just so that the other person knows that the other still exists.”
Mr. Henderson’s newfound anti-MySpace stance is unusually strong, but a growing number of millennials have grown a bit wary of high-tech social networks. For all their talk of text messages and Facebook profiles, students still seem to value face-to-face communication, reports the Associated Press. —Brock Read
Categories: Student-Life
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