The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. Never before have we been so close and so connected. While you’re busy checking e-mails and googling tips on improving your poker skills, a revolution of sorts is going on: a thriving online community is changing the music industry.

“Anybody that does anything has a MySpace page now,” says Luke Boyd, better known as rapper Classified. The Enfield native’s most recent CD is Hitch Hikin Music. “Everybody seems to be on it.”

A Universal Music employee who recommended it as a networking tool first introduced Boyd to MySpace last year. MySpace is a free online website available to anyone. The website, for example, states that it’s for friends who want to talk online, business people and co-workers interested in networking, even people interested in dating or looking for long-lost friends.

You start with a bare-bones template. You can customize your page by adding your own pictures, video and music (MP3), as well as written personal information. You then invite people to join your network, linking everyone together in one network where you are able to easily browse and view anyone’s profile or MySpace page...

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