It really seems that most of us are of the same opinion in that MySpace should not be used for designer networking or portfolio display.

I believe in keeping the design standards as high as possible, for myself, and the industry. There are so many great, professional, resources available to us for these purposes. Oh yeah, like AIGA!

This and the entire conversation irked me. I responded. The following is based upon my response.

I kept thinking and dwelling about the utilizing MySpace all that night. Blank, blank, blank were the first several dozen ideas I had as to why to do it. Then I realized I was wrong, and perhaps most of us, in my approach. Think MySpacing—not MySpace. What action—what emotionally connected action—what addictive action—what MySpacing will they do to your profile? How will they be MySpacing with you?

This is not really my idea and regrettable I do not remember who, out there in the wild, suggested this idea. But the idea finally sunk in with me: “MySpace is about the action and interaction. It is the activities that keep coming back for more.”

Let us put this to mental use; what could our MySpacing page be? Instead of making it our portfolio, we will make it a portfolio piece of MySpacing.

Our MySpace page will be the home to the Dancing Baby II—Da Bay Deuce as the wanna be cool kids call it. Get people to come and come again because they it is a weird bad pop culture addictive quality. Make it something that people will not admit to liking to their friends until that one brave friend admits it and then its ok to fancy it (heck even the emo kids will like it, they just will not admit it). But, there is more to this. People then want to befriend Da Bay Deuce so that a cheesy animated GIF or Da Bay Deuce shows up in there friends list. Then we kick it up a notch; we create a full persona and start commenting on their profiles to tease them back to our profile. In addition, people leave comments on our profile where they can shout out what they want to see Da Bay Deuce do next. Then let’s say, Da Bay Deuce visits your company, for some contrived reason, and an awkward yet funny situation occurs.

Maybe that is not the best example; but, hopefully you can see my point.
MySpace may not be suited to display your portfolio; but, instead it is suited to be a
portfolio piece, in itself, of designing MySpacing.