by Alfredo Lopez

Over the past couple of years, the on-line world has been over-run by an epidemic of "flattened communications" software and solutions designed mainly to get young people communicating (or actually buying stuff -- which is mainly what capitalism does).

Texting, all thoses "mini-websites" (like Facebook, etc.), the infernally named "twitter" and even newer and just emerging forms of communication present themselves to people as not only the equal of but superior to old stalwarts like email and the website.

It's a tribute to the super-sexualism of a sexually confused society that one of the most popular explanations for the explosive growth of Myspace system dwells on sex.

The popular culture pundits are fond of describing the short-cut boy meets girl adventures as Myspace's raison d'etre. In fact, as I can attest from the experiences of the young men on my staff here, such adventures are rampant.