PIMP MYSPACE: (www.pimpmyspace.org)
The layouts for Myspace pages are simple and standard, but not for long. There is a new website titled Pimp Myspace it contains different layouts and animated graphics for one to use on Myspace.com. This is a fairly new trend, yet its popularity is soaring. Everyone seems to be using pimp myspace to "pimp" their pages. The goal for this site is to let myspace users personalize their page to feel more connected to it. I personally feel that this new element will attract many more people to sign up for myspace.
Why was this site ACTUALLY created? I have been thinking a lot about this and I have only come to one conclusion. I feel as though the idea of pimp myspace is directly linked to experiential marketing. Pimp myspace lets users get even more involved in the myspace sphere, which makes it more of an experience. Pimp myspace also lets users graphically alter their page so that it shows who they really are inside and out. This was designed to make myspace a part of YOUR life. Now users can sign on and feel as though their "pimped out" profile is who they are, just on the internet. This relates it to "an experience". The experience of going on myspace and feeling even more connected to your profile. When our generation ages, all myspace users will be able to look back on their time spent with myspace and feel PERSONALLY connected, because their page truly reflected who they were at that point in time. Many people do not realize that this is yet another ploy to get more people connected to myspace. I look at it more as brainwashing. Yet again, our generation is being brainwashed by the internet.