The girls of 'MySpace' on Playboy

And how many of the will be "real" women of MySpace and not just models who specifically joined to get into Playboy?

But my vote is for Apnea at http://www.apneatic.com

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Myspace is everywhere!!! I can look around now(I am in a computer lab) and see people on MySpace, amazing. And now playboy...

Sounds hot. Hopefulyl they wont all be older women saying they are on myspace just to get in playboy, but will be younger ones that actually use it on a regular basis.

Does MySpace appear to be the internet's cest pool to anyone else?

Peekj: I was about to ask the same question. It seems to be the public wasteland of HTML illiterate angsty teenagers. I can't stand it.

this is just another reason that my-space is a complete fad that will hopefully end soon. i know a lot of people that have a my-space or xanga and they just create more drama and crap that we stressed out teens don't need. i think also that quite a few parents are going to get mad at this because they have a daughter who has a my-space and now playboy is inviting them to a photo shoot. this is just ridiculous. yet another way for people to be exploited and other people make more money. i hope it ends soon.

Haha, that's pretty funny... the TA in my class is like "i'm gonna tell".

peekj, that's a ridiculous generalization.

I'm going to have to agree with peekj, myspace and livejournal are, in my opinion, everything I hate about the internet.

Heh. Teens have always done things the older generation cannot understand. I totally get MySpace though. This Net generation is all about connecting, in every possible way. Texting, MySpacing, hanging out and texting, IMing. And since they don't want adults in on their conversations, they love it that people hate MySpace.

Up until a few weeks ago I completely agreed with many of you that myspace was a terrible waste of time. It was nothing more than a bunch of teenagers creating drama with each other. However I finally decided to give it a try partially because so many people I know use it and I wanted to be able to view their pages. I have had an active account now for about 3 weeks. In that time I have been contacted by several people I went to High School with and a few old friends from past jobs. Myspace has provided a place where "everyone" in my age group (early 20's) to find each other. So while I still think that like anything on the web there are good and bad users, over all myspace does serve a purpose. If you don't believe me give it a try, sign up for an account and start searching for old friends and classmates you might be surprised who is on there.

I only hope Playboy's pictorials are easier to navigate than the site itself. Myspace is the most disorganized, annoying-to-browse website I have encountered, considering its size and rate of growth.

I will be disappointed if the pictorial isn't called "Attention Whoring Whores".

I personally love Myspace. It keeps all of them (those angsty teens that can't write HTML) more or less "contained" in a single area of the web. I'm not saying they're only at Myspace, but they are more concentrated there more than other places.

I agree with Shawn if you know where they are, you can avoid them.

Myspace sucks time, just like any new site that is out there that becomes the next great site. I feel sad that playboy is doing a pictorial on myspace women however. This was supposed to be a social network, and it has become an advertising conglomerate for movies and such. Mr. Murdoch has destroyed the essence of the network by making it less than real. When will we find a network that is actually indicative of the people in our life and make it easy to communicate with all of them at once if need be? This is not friendster, myspace, orkut or any of the above.

How sad, how very sad.

myspace !!!! come on. Playboy should do it on facebook.com, these girls are all at least college age. I hate myspace!

Will the photos be blurry and have closeups of women's busts?

Ugh. Ridiculous. I bet it sells like hotcakes.

Myspace was started by a spyware company. After bursts of popularity---and the failure of the FoxNews web portal---it was bought by NewsCorp. To NewsCorp it was worth the hundreds of millions of dollars they spent because it's a site where its users are constantly creating new content. Horrible content; but content nonetheless. We can only speculate on nefarious future plans...

MySpace has turned into what GeoCities used to be back in the day - the ghetto cesspool of the internet, home to the people who just don't know any better.

I thought the original concept to myspace was a great idea. I think people just found a way to make a good idea bad and the rest is history. Doesn't that happen with everything though? That area won't be going anywhere until there is some sort of related tragedy exposed by Oprah OR the next best thing comes along.

Chat rooms went bye bye given the sickos hangin out there and the department of justice sting operations to find the sickos. It seems TOO many people are looking for some place to live out some of their deviant type of interpersonal activities.

For Hugh's sake, I hope the check those IDs very close to make sure they aren't mistakenly putting minors up there. Wouldn't that be a great Oprah episode? ;-P

Careful with this link. I opened at work and could have gotten into big trouble. I'll definitely open when I get home though.

For a long time I've been trying to put my finger on what is making MySpace so successful. I agree that its design/interface is horrid. Its product placement and advertisements are intrusive and borderline dishonest (many product placements are passed off as profiles themselves). Yet despite all this, it is still amazingly successful. People create MySpace profiles and they don't let them sit dormant. They create them and go back ... go back nearly every single day. And it's not that they go back for a few seconds, some spend a very long time logged into the website -- something that advertisers covet (another thing that advertisers covet is the core age demographic of MySpace users). It's phenomenal considering Friendster and Facebook provides the same types of service, yet those two never became as successful as MySpace.

I think the reason for MySpace's success was that it infiltrated people's social network by marketing itself as "cool" through the LA club scene. Friendster was around first, but it just wasn't "cool". I think the same phenomenon happened with the iPod ... another success story that owes much of its success to its cool factor.

Every social network has a "Club Rat", "Car Ho", "Racer Dude". These were the initial adopters of MySpace. From these people its popularity spread like a virus amongst their social networks.

I don't think MySpace is a fad because the service it provides is something that is needed ... and it does it very, very good.

MySpace is horrible. A good concept gone bad. Very, very bad!