[Air-L] The slow decay of mySpace?

[Alecea Standlee]

Another issue that we might consider, is how we define
membership. When we talk about online communitites
maybe  we need to address how someone is or is not
defined as a community member. After all in an offline
community, often geographic occupation is the primary
indicator if someone is a neighbor or community
member. Online the definitions of community are more
complex. The degree of interaction and active
participation in community life online functions very
differently. Before we can really examine the FB vs MS
debate, we have to set some perameters and define some
core idea.

Alecea

--- m.thelwall at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> Hi Hugie,
> Just to back up some of the replies to this -
> looking at a sample of
> MySpace profiles, about a third of "members"
> probably only log on when
> they join and then give up for whatever reason.
> Another third probably log
> on weekly or so and the rest may give up after a
> while or log on
> infrequently - so it is difficult to draw
> conclusions about migration just
> from the number of active users, even aside from the
> problem of multiple
> accounts- which maybe one day soon the majority of
> users will have.
>
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/papers/MySpace_d.doc
> It will be interesting to see if in the future sites
> that are now very big
> amongst some sectors of the population (e.g.,
> MySpace, Facebook) are
> dropped for the new latest thing, or manage to
> sustain their user base by
> reinventing themselves or just through sheer weight
> of numbers.
> Mike
> > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:28:45 +1000
> > From: "Hugemusic" <hmusic at ozemail.com.au>
> > Subject: [Air-L] The slow decay of mySpace?
> > 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
> 
> 
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