Informative Speech: MySpace

Informative Speech: MySpace

Organization Type: Star Order
Attention Getter Type: Rhetorical Question and Polling Audience
Conclusion Type: Call to Action

Goal/Purpose: I would like to make my audience aware of MySpace; a social networking website and explain the concept, use, and benefit of MySpace.
I. Introduction
A. Attention: How many of you have friends? Wow, everyone in the room! That's great, I thought as much. Let me see a show of hands. How many of you own a computer? How many of you use your computer to send email, chat or instant message your friends? Do any of you have your own webpage? How many of you use your computer to meet new people or make new friends? Ok, well I want to do is to show you how to make more friends in a fun and interesting way. How many of you have heard of MySpace?
B. Thesis Statement: MySpace is great way to keep in touch with friends and family, make new friends, and explore social interests.
C. Credibility: That’s important to me because… I am a hardcore Geek. According to Dictionary.com, a geek is defined as “a computer expert or enthusiast” and “a person who is accomplished in technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept” (Lexico Publishing Group). Until recently, that described me pretty accurately. You see, I have been in the information technology business for more than a decade. I am really good at making friends with computers. I know how to make PCs play nice together. I know how to get unfriendly networks talking to each other. I’m also really good at making web sites come alive. But I have recently shifted my focus to making more friends with people than with computers.
D. Preview: In the next few minutes, I'd like to explain how MySpace works and show you how fun and easy MySpace is to setup and use.
II. Body
A. To understand how MySpace works, we must first understand how MySpace is structured.
1. MySpace revolves around the concept, “Friends of Friends”.   It’s sort of like having all of your current...