This issue was raised on the evening news so I had to find the online source. Hitwise has just published some stats attempting to document the most popular Internet sites. These data indicate that MySpace.com is the most popular U.S. destination accounting for an astounding 4.5% of web visits. Last year at this time myspace was in 12th position. This shows you what a little bad publicity will do.
Other popular destinations (Google, Yahoo) have been quick to indicate that they are really a collection of services and not a single destination. Probably so. While these data have generated some skepticism and there may be some issues regarding the methodology that was employed to generate these rankings, the fact that nearly any procedure would position MySpace at this rank should be some type of wake up. Either many of us are really rotten people or MySpace has found a way to tap a need in a large number of people.
Time for me and many of you to get a MySpace account. By the way, I find MySpace clunky, messy and very slow. Such complaints obviously are not concerns to those who spend a great deal of time within this environment.
