R.I.P. Myspace?

http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/03/29/6369226-myspace-loses-10-million-users-in-one-month-may-die-by-end-of-year?GT1=43001


Remember that old social networking site called MySpace? Turns out that it still exists — for now anyway.

ZDNet reports that statistics gathered up by Internet data tracking site comScore are showing that MySpace is quickly dying. In the last month alone, the social network lost 10 million users — and that's following abandonment by over 50 million people in the prior year.

According to the Telegraph, this means that MySpace is left with about 63 million users. To put that number into perspective, consider that Facebook has more than 600 million active users right now and MySpace had about 180 million during its height in 2007.

These statistics, the pattern of user loss, and various reports of job cuts are fueling speculation that MySpace might not make it through this year.

We'll see what happens, but for now we're not exactly bothering to pretty up our old MySpace profiles in hopes that they'll have a purpose again.

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It would not surprise me.

Prior to logging in to my account over the weekend, I hadnt been in it in 47 days, according to my "last login" stat. Im sure it was even than longer the time before that. I honestly dont even recognize it anymore. I go in and nothing looks familiar. Its like they have tried to copy a lot of the Facebook functionality - the same thing that killed Black Planet, trying to copy Myspace - and its just mad bootleg now. I almost shut my account down when I was in there the other day. I dont know why I didnt, but Im going to, relatively soon. Nobody uses that joint anymore, at least not to contact me. If they did, for their sake, I would hope it wasnt an emergency, cause it would easily be a month before they got a response LOL.

Poor Tom. But that's what he get. Shoulda paid me my $5 in nickels that he owed me. See, God dont like ugly LOL.