Is MySpace Too Popular Or Too Populated?

If News Corp.'s not careful, MySpace will become a cautionary tale. It's explosive growth and subsequent exploitation is starting to cheese off, if you'll forgive the juvenile expression, a good portion of its user base. Declining numbers could be just a leveling off, or it could be a sign of overpopulation.

some, a couple of major publication articles illustrating how MySpace has lost its luster among the in-crowd was a tad alarmist, considering it was based on the disdain of an isolated few. For others, it was perhaps predictable, even if the degree to which MySpace will cool is still under debate. According to the teenagers that WaPo's News Corp. never added access feesand never censored content right? Well, mostly right, at least you can't really prove the latter. "I'm opposed to what Rupert Murdoch has done to the media, and I don't want him involved in MySpace," said user Nathan Hall, 26, of Milwaukee. A major corporation auctioning off the attention of an audience? Never happened, right? But it was the marketing world that made the largest contribution to the wide-scale exploitation of 124 million profiles. The reasons marketers were interested were the same reasons others became interested. Wrote Since then, they've come under the watchful eye of the press, the parents, predators, teachers, and law enforcement, too. With that in mind, it seems less like teen fickleness and more like a busted party. The great things never go away. It's marketing that drives fads, not teens. It's crowds that move the sensible to find new places before everyone else does. It's parents and cops that bust parties. So what do we do now? We just