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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites
prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."
after the slashdot appearance of the article, MySpace.com is now #4.
I mean, we all knew MySpace was headed for the top, as we all know Madonna is not really English, even if she now has an English fake accent. So, is this a case of reality being announced before the news get it?
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I guess it's not MySpace anymore, but OurSpace...
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
...the internet dies just a little bit. The future if the internet grows bleek. Some people spend so much time whoring themselves out on MySpace, that's all they use the internet for. Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.
God save the interweb.
None, they'll just sit in the dark and cry.
Losing my faith in /. but it turns out we're all united in our hatred of MySpace.
This guy is way out there
One page load of a MySpace page averages around 9GB, so yeah, I could see that.
<xml><I><am><so><damn>Web 2.0</damn></so></am></I></xml>
but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.
Did anyone notice the average time spent for AOL? It was double that of the next longest below it. I belive this is even more proof that AOL users are just plain slow.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."
Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.
Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146
Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.
How we know is more important than what we know.
No-one intentionally goes to Real.com.
:-
Only reason Real.com is up there (with a long time per visit) is
Buffering... Buffering... Buffering...
is it a company full of 8th graders?
no.
thisnukes4u.net
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In anticipation of this exact comment, I typed that exact line (well started to) into 'Find as you type'...
And seriously, who DOES?
The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS page or despite it?
None. Emo kids don't understand screwing.
Sure, Real is at number 9, but most of their traffic is to one specific page:
i _uninstall_this_damn_thing.html
http://www.real.com/support/faqs/how_the_hell_do_
echo "0.0.0.0 www.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts
'nuff said.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
I'm a CS student in college right now and I can sadly say I can vouch for how out of control the myFace/Spacebook craze has gotten... Another CS friend summed it up pretty well with this quote:
"I've almost quit telling people I'm interested in computers anymore, because I keep getting the same responce: 'Oh, so does that mean you're like good at facebook?'"
I think I died a little bit inside when he said that...
Your post was great but I see this kind of thing all the time in really badly written emails to customer service. I think Slashdot has spoiled you. Despite all the moaning and groaning the Slashdot audience is fairly well educated and can write tolerably. You haven't had to spend a lot of time with exceptionally stupid and/or very poorly educated people since high school no doubt (if you went to public school), but they're out there and there are lots and lots of them and Myspace caters to them. I'm actually really happy that the great uneducated masses are learning to type, get a thought across at some level or another and do basic internet stuff.
Not to mention a prime example of "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it."
Thanks for nothing, Mr. Berners-Lee.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Cut the rope.
:)
(joke is a bit older than the emo fad, so works equally well with their goth predecessors
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Grammar and punctuation errors offend my sight. I can't look at something that's obviously wrong without wanting to correct it. I think I could end a friendship over somebody typing, "r u going 2 skool 2day?"
Back when I was in college I carried pens around with me for notetaking. This also enabled me to correct posters on campus, which I turned into kind of a hobbie. God, sometimes I wish I'd packed a red sharpie just for that purpose. The Health Advisor would print up all of these flyers every week ("Don't do uppers and downers at the same time!" "Use a condom, even if it's anal!"), and while I was taking a dump I'd methodically correct them, being sure to add comments on style and mark sentences in need of restructuring. It was insanely fun.
As for a contract, god, I can't even imagine.
What?! That's the sort of thing that you put in between and
My lawn is so Emo,
it cuts itself.