!@#$ing Myspace.

As of September 7, 2 007, there are over 200 million accounts. 1

This number ASTOUNDS me. That means nearly 200 million people are making money for the Myspace company.

Don't know what I mean? Well there are companies like Google who have a marketing system where users who put Google ads get paid when certain ads show up on the user's site. The revenue made on those ads being shown isn't much... Maybe a couple of cents per show, but multiply that by the number of users who go to Myspace on a regular basis.

There are other systems called pay-per-click (ppc) where the user who advertises gets paid even more. It might only be twenty five cents but, again, multiply that by the number of users who visit each day.

Another popular service marketers will use is a higher paying system, but only because it is harder to get a "sale" on it. If an end user is on a site and clicks a link on site "A" to another site and signs up for a service or purchases something from site "B", site "A" makes a commission that could be a number of dollars. Now multiply that by the number of users.

"MySpace is now generating in excess of $30 million a month in revenue, with about $24 million in domestic revenue and $6 million internationally. He adds that monthly revenues should more than double over the next 12 months, and “at very high incremental revenue margins.” So in 12 months, he’s saying, MySpace should be doing more than $60 million a month in revenue, for an annual run rate in the neighborhood of $750 million a year."

So my congratulations goes to Tom and the rest of the Myspace team for inadvertantly making a multi-million dollar website.

Here is my other peeve of Myspace. It has become a popularity contest.

"Nearly 80 percent of our members are 18 years or older, ..." 2

This means that people who are OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL are still looking to see how many "friends" they can have. People will add and accept "friends" that they will never meet, never message, and have no interest in other than they are another means by which to increase their "Your Network" number.

I will admit that I have a Myspace account, but only because I am always getting people sending me messages saying something to the effect of, "look at what I did to my Myspace page." Honestly I don't give a damn what anyone has done to their Myspace page.

I am disappointed that, with the ease of making a personal website, that people still resort to using a place like Myspace as a way to "express" themselves with their blogs and their music lists.

And those people who put mp3s and music videos on their pages that both start playing at the same time. WTF are they thinking? Have they no common sense? How the hell do they think that their "friends" can listen to one and watch AND listen to the other? I have never come to a page where putting both of those on one page actually works. ALL those people need to be slapped. USE YOUR EFFING BRAIN!!!

In case anyone who might read this wants to see what I think about Myspace on my Myspace page, here is the link.

Click the Image for My Myspace

Now, if you have gone there and have a question about what the hell all that text says, by all means, click here. For those of you who don't want to click another link, here is a bit quoted from the site:

"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."

I think "dummy text of the printing and typsetting industry" fits the entire context of Myspace.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace

2 www.news.com/MySpace-growth-continues-amid-criticism/2100-102