Facebook Music: the new Standard?

In our discussion in class last week, we discussed our jobs as new media creators. Part of this job is to use pre-existing standards that exist in the media industry to make it easier for users. This is the most true and most evident on the Internet.
The article I found this week comes from MSNBC.com. According to the article, Facebook is trying to make their way into the digital music arena. It states in the first paragraph that the creator of Facebook, Mark Zuckerburg, is considering the move due to MySpace’s launch of its own “MySpace Music.” MySpace, along with many other social networking sites, has had their own music player as part of profile pages for many years now. It has become so prominent that it is now an acceptable method, if not a standard. With Facebook adding their own music player, social networking sites with music players can quickly become a standard. There are simple buttons that have been around for decades (play, pause, next, etc.). In class, we also talked about maximizing capability as new media creators. This is what Facebook is trying to do. They are maximizing what people can do on their website. Adding music give a whole new dimension to what is possible on Facebook.com.
Going back to the earlier weeks of Social Responsibility in the Media; towards the end of the article on MSNBC, the reporter states “Facebook did not immediately return calls seeking comment.” This goes back to Klosterman’s article discussing how reporters will wait for a certain amount of time before going ahead with the information that they have. This makes me wonder how long this reporter waited before going ahead with the article without all the information that was needed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27237227/