Five teenage boys accused of plotting a shooting rampage at their high school on the anniversary of the Columbine massacre were arrested Thursday after a message authorities said warned of a gun attack appeared on the Web site MySpace.com.
Aren’t they dumb to put a scheme on a website?
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Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
MySpace might be a fad, but it will fade for different reasons than Friendster. Friendster has itself to blame - it never loved its users… it never treated them with respect, or learned to understand why they were there… it never give them what they needed to make themselves at home. Friendster never learned to provide for the diversity of users it had - it wanted them all to be the same.
MySpace is not the same as Friendster - it will not fade in the same way. Friendster was a fad; MySpace has become far more than that. If it doesn’t evolve, it will fade, but MySpace is far better positioned to evolve than Friendster was. That said, i think we’re seeing a huge shift in social life - negotiating super publics. I kinda suspect that MySpace teens are going to lead the way in figuring this out, just as teens in the 60s and 70s paved the way to figuring out globalized life with TV. I just hope law doesn’t try to stop culture.
I dropped my friendster account because of the fakesters and the ads popping up all over. My myspace account just started in 2004 and look how fast it’s grown. I think myspace won’t be a fad. If the owners are wise, they should try to innovate all the time. Add new features.
Myspace Mania indeed!
It is the largest online social networking portal on the web
It has 61 + million registered users with 21+ million unique visitors (media metrix)
It’s the second largest destination on the web, by page views
It splits 50.2% male, 49.8% female
They reach more men online than ESPN.com. They reach more females online than iVillage.
The primary age demo is 16-34
They have 1.4 million registered bands, 350,000 band blogs
The site attracts 220,000 new registrants daily
There are 50,000 groups including fashion, health, wellness & fitness, sports and recreation, music, film, TV, etc.
And last but not least it costs $35,000 to launch a profile for marketing purposes.
This was proven when I created FREE myspace layouts. After 2 days, hits to my main domain doubled. Can you just imagine getting a teeny weeny fraction of their visitors over to your site?
Don’t like my FREE MySpace layouts? well, you can code it yourself. But if you aren’t interested in learning CSS and HTML, you can use the automatic layout creator such as Thomas myspace editor. It’s so simple to use. This code generating machine output quality code that makes your profile attractive. It’s very easy to use, just edit some options and then press the enter key and the code-machine give you a sample of code
View all the myspace.com free layouts and free Livejournal layouts or LJ layouts.
You can also add add my free myspace layouts page to your friends list. XD
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My Myspace account number is 44,279 which I got sometime in 2003 (?). Today the account numbers reach over 50 million or more. No wonder my pic always shows up in the first page of most of my myspace friends. hehe great to get a low number. I wonder if it’s the same as ICQ. The lower the number, the more value that hackers will try to steal it. Interestingly, based on Alexa , myspace is also the world most visited 6th web-site today. Can you imagine that? myspace.com traffic is about to compete with Google traffic. You can say MySpace is like a MEGA blog reminiscent with a 1997-era “Geocities” community.
I still prefer myspace.com than the friendster thing.
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