valleywag.com— About four months ago I was hired by an online publisher as a freelance journalist to write an article detailing the history and business model of MySpace.com
Sep 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
It's not how many users delete their account -- who deletes an account anymore? The better and more incriminating number would be that of those who abandon their accounts.All in all the article was disappointing to me. I thought it had some dirt like maybe News Corp deliberately and covertly planted "MySpace is Dangerous to Kids" stories in order to raise its overall profile and scrape in all the traffic cream that results. In general MySpace is completely redundant to the inherent features of the web itself. Why someone sees god in setting up a MySpace profile and linking to friends, but not in setting up a common home page where the freedom and reach to do that and more are much greater, is beyond me.I've seen this before - take something free about the Internet, repackage it as an exclusive service (e.g., require folks to log in to some control panel), and people go nuts for it.
I cannot believe that people STILL think they are being clever when they post "People still use XXXXX" for every article posted about things like MySpace, Internet Explorer, etc.EVERY f**king time. It wasn't funny the first time, The 682,453rd time it is just pathetic.Yes, people use MySpace. Far more people use MySpace in an hour than use Digg in a MONTH. Far more people use it than ANYTHING you will ever create in your worthless life.
As my younger self use to say.. "you hate them because you ain't them"... they have and will set more traffic and subscriber records then all other online sites... sure they make a lot of mistakes but they have the major core piece to the puzzle..
Closed AccountSep 11, 2006
It's not how many users delete their account -- who deletes an account anymore? The better and more incriminating number would be that of those who abandon their accounts.All in all the article was disappointing to me. I thought it had some dirt like maybe News Corp deliberately and covertly planted "MySpace is Dangerous to Kids" stories in order to raise its overall profile and scrape in all the traffic cream that results. In general MySpace is completely redundant to the inherent features of the web itself. Why someone sees god in setting up a MySpace profile and linking to friends, but not in setting up a common home page where the freedom and reach to do that and more are much greater, is beyond me.I've seen this before - take something free about the Internet, repackage it as an exclusive service (e.g., require folks to log in to some control panel), and people go nuts for it.
exsstSep 11, 2006
there are other better sites. bebo for example
Closed AccountSep 11, 2006
I cannot believe that people STILL think they are being clever when they post "People still use XXXXX" for every article posted about things like MySpace, Internet Explorer, etc.EVERY f**king time. It wasn't funny the first time, The 682,453rd time it is just pathetic.Yes, people use MySpace. Far more people use MySpace in an hour than use Digg in a MONTH. Far more people use it than ANYTHING you will ever create in your worthless life.
haggieSep 12, 2006
@SanityInAnarchyI must have hit a nerve there...
cuzicanSep 12, 2006
As my younger self use to say.. "you hate them because you ain't them"... they have and will set more traffic and subscriber records then all other online sites... sure they make a lot of mistakes but they have the major core piece to the puzzle..
royalwcheeseSep 12, 2006
I imagine this nerd to look and sound exactly like the Simpson's comic book guy.
elastikosSep 12, 2006
@exsstEven with adblock on, any browsing on that site and you're wading though s**te.
dustedotnetSep 12, 2006
Ditto. :)