Bye Bye MySpace

WSJ -- Oct 27 -- After 20 year old Jenny Thompson amassed 4,000 "friends," mostly being strangers, on MySpace, she posted a farewell ode before deleting her page. There's a fringe of users now renouncing MySpace and other social networking sites, not despite their popularity, but because of it.  Juit Nagy, CP at Fox Interactive (MySpace), acknowledges  that MySpace is moving into a phase of maturity.

The full article was originally published at WSJ, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: The honeymoon is over. Users will become more sophisticated and will seek higher integrity social networking sites that help them organize their networks of friends in a more meaningful manner, for more meaningful relationships. They'll still stay on MySpace, but will use 2nd and 3rd social networking sites in tandem. 

Comments

[kevin]

I have a large blogging presence on myspace. People always say they want to leave and half of the time they come back. The site is like crack.

[mark]

i hate myspace, its the worst thing to happen to the internet since .. something bad happened.

it gives little children a place that they truly believe to be there own safe little website.

how many sexual predators actually roam that thing?

[Portia]

I am actually a bit of a MySpace whore and enjoy the networking side, i've met many people from there who have all become friends. In my experience it has been very popular, however i do see the other side of the coin. There are some strange people out there who are all trying to be your friends. At the end of the day its common sense as to what you do & quite frankly children shouldn't be sites, what happened to the good old days of playing in the garden!