MySpace is alive and well and apparently never lost its core group of users, music fans. More than 50 million people visited what many people think of as the original social network service this past November (the latest monthly figure available), a 575% increase, the Wall Street Journal reports. And they viewed more than 300 million videos in the month of November (the latest monthly figure … [Read more...] about MySpace’s nonexistence greatly exaggerated
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The new MySpace
It's not quite live yet, but the marketing campaign has quietly begun, CNET reports. And it's true to the core interest group of its earliest, pre-News Corp.-acquisition days: Before Facebook seriously began replacing it for teens in 2008, MySpace "had become a powerful music platform. If you were in the music business in whatever capacity, you had to visit the site regularly," CNET says. Ad Age … [Read more...] about The new MySpace
Catching up with our kids in social sites: Study
The number of people using social network sites "has nearly doubled since 2008" to 59% of US Net users (47% of US adults in general) and the population of social sites has gotten older, the Pew Internet Project found. "The average age of adult-SNS [social network site] users has shifted from 33 in 2008 to 38 in 2010. Over half of all adult SNS users are now over the age of 35." As for which sites, … [Read more...] about Catching up with our kids in social sites: Study
The MySpace-Facebook mashup
Facebook and MySpace have been integrating their content-sharing features in recent months, and the latest is literally called "Mashup." With it, MySpace users can "populate their MySpace page with the likes and interests listed on their Facebook profile, and then stream MySpace content to the page based on the Facebook information," Information Week reports. The feature is already being used by … [Read more...] about The MySpace-Facebook mashup
Fresh insights into teen social media use
Facebook for Facebook's sake – for something to do – is one way some teens use the site, some in wealthier Nashville communities, for example, according to some early observations in social media researcher danah boyd's current field work. "Teens who are more likely to be stuck at home ... are ... much more likely to sit and chat on Facebook because it’s Facebook." They're also texting at … [Read more...] about Fresh insights into teen social media use