[Air-L] The slow decay of mySpace?

[Martin Garthwaite]

Whilst I have done no research on this I would be interested in research
(longitudinal?)  that  looks into the waves of usage / migration. For
argument sake do the youngest users start with bebo, then move to myspace,
then move to facebook (over simplistic I know given the large number of SNS)
over a number of years.

Dealing with orphaned accounts is an interesting problem for the SNS owners.

On 8/22/07, Hugemusic <hmusic at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> Just read an (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/media_nm/myspace_dc)
> article about the different fortunes of MySpace and Facebook. Now, the
> article is framed as a discussion of how the two sites compare from the
> point of view of growth and total numbers, but there was another figure
> the
> writer ignored that is very revealing indeed.
>
> The article lists the unique visitation of MySpace in July 2007 as 61.3
> million, which sounds pretty impressive, especially when you consider that
> it's up 33.3% on last year. Great! But when I logged on this morning, my
> "Network" was 197,539,132 - more than three times the number of unique
> visitors.  Even allowing for rounding of that network down to, say 180
> million, that still means that 2/3 of account holders don't visit MySpace
> each month!
>
> Is this because of the migration we discussed earlier? Are some of these
> 2/3
> of account holders delinquent?  Do the numbers stack up to the hype?  I
> believe the profit figures on the venture were spectacular the other week
> ...
>
> Personally, I have three MySpace accounts for various band activities, but
> if the damn site gets any heavier and/or slower, I'm gonna give up as a
> bad
> job ...
>
> What do people think??
>
> Cheers,
> Hughie
>
> The Genre Benders:  "I am leaving! I am leaving!"
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>
>
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