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AP Some MySpace Users Skittish About Fox By MARY PAPENFUSS, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 2, 8:31 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO - There's a Fox in MySpace, and bloggers are squawking.
MySpace, which launched just two years ago, is currently the most popular social networking site in the world. It makes it easy for people to cus tomize their home pages with personal photos, art, color and music, alon g with market-revealing lists of favorite activities, books, music and f ilms. Users can get site-wide bulletins, but they mostly communicate wit h friends or intriguing strangers they've expressly allowed into a netwo rk. The only automatic "friend" for everyone who joins the site is MySpace's co-founder, Tom Anderson. He has his own profile single, 29, Santa Mon ica and a list of 18 interests, 24 favorite bands, and 12 heroes, incl uding "my mom" and author George Orwell. After the sale was announced, spoofers added a profile for Murdoch, too: straight, married, 74 which says he has joined the site for "networkin g" and lists his occupation as "world domination." Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based MySpace, told The Associated Press that the News Corp. acquisition will change nothing about the site other than to extend MySpace's international reach. But some of the hipsters in the online hangout fear their freewheeling wa ys, celebrated in naughty notes, brash blogs and provocative photos, won 't mesh with the values of Murdoch's media outlets, like Fox News, which they believe are right-wing mouthpieces for the Bush administration. "I'm opposed to what Rupert Murdoch has done to the media, and I don't wa nt him involved in MySpace," said user Nathan Hall, 26, of Milwaukee. spokeswoman Teri Everett said the company has "no intention of imposing any sensibilities on MySpace," and that none of the anti-Murdo ch messages will be deleted.
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