MySpace Sees Old People

More than half of the users on young, hip, advertising magnet MySpace may be older than 35, a revelation that could be damaging to Fox Interactive Media's attempts to demand premium rates for ads aimed at what has been touted as a young demographic.

number of regular MySpace users has been debated, the youthful aspect of that membership has been an assumption. According to early episode of The Simpsons where Burns is running for governor, and he spits out a piece of the three-eyed fish Marge served during the televised "dinner with regular people" event. By the time the piece of fish hits the floor, Burns' campaign is over. The revelation by comScore that MySpace may be populated more by the grey-haired contingent who are cheering Wal-Mart's $4 prescription drug program than the young, pliable advertising target promised to deep-pocketed marketers may not go over very well. Possibly as well as Burns for Governor post-fish spit. It also appears Fox will not deploy FIM president Ross Levinsohn leading a horde of attach-wielding lawyers Braveheart-style against comScore's cozy headquarters in Northern Virginia. Which is too bad, because as may heard, we're doing Jules-style righteous vengeance? Because Liz Gannes at GigaOM Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.