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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 just took this Nielson Net survey a few days ago (they sent me $15 cash!)
It is very long, but on some of the pages I noticed that sites like slashdot where not a choice to even select. On the page where myspace was a choice of sites you visit, livejournal was not! I'm not sure how well the "write-in" box at the bottom gets counted, but I really question the integrity of the whole thing.
...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
MySpace is the worst thing for business productivity since Solitaire. We blocked MySpace a few weeks ago because it accounted for literally 10-15% of our company's outbound web traffic - I'm talking about thousands and thousands of MySpace URIs visited per day, at a company of ~75 people.
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
Not always. flickr is a good example
there were dozens of other mildly successful photography communities before flickr came along, many of which covered the social networking aspect of flickr much better.
flickr simply has the best mix of community and design out there, hence its success among pro photographers and occasional shutterbugs alike.
facebook is another example. It's basically a well-designed myspace for college kids with proper privacy features. It took hold in a market where dozens of other sites had failed miserably. The design's clean, the site's never been slow to memory (despite exponential growth). Because of this, it is far more prevalent than Myspace among college kids. At my medium-sized state school, I'd estimate that about 90%+ of the student body uses facebook regularly. It's that popular. It's preferred over myspace because it's fast, usable, and not creepy.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I have seen a lot of comments here regarding why Real.com is ranked so highly. It likely is because their player does access content from their site regularly.
Most North Americans and Europeans fail to understand how vastly popular RealPlayer is in Asia. There have been some reports of over 75% of Indian computer users using RealPlayer, since it has very good support for languages such as Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi. It also has superb support for Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and other Asian languages, thus leading to a high degree of usage there (although not as much as in India).
I'm just a little suprised at the comments about MySpace. Clearly i am in a minority of /. readers who actually enjoys and uses MySpace. Granted, i only began using it a few weeks ago, but i have actually had fun using html and then teaching it to my friends so they can improve their pages. but most importantly, i have reconnected with a lot of old friends who now live in other cities. No other social networking website i have used before has been able to do that for me.
The real item of interest i thought was the "average usage time" stat. MySpace users average over 2 hours/session. Thats on par with ebay and Yahoo. and twice that of Google. thats a lot of ads. ads = $ = power whether the techno-istas poo-poo it or not.
The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS page or despite it?
"Bands dominate myspace."
Bands dominate YOUR myspace. Log out and try visiting as an anonymous user. From there it's pretty obvious: idiots dominate myspace.