MySpace Users Go Fox Hunting

The name rolls off the tongue like that of a James Bond villain, accompanied by a scowl and a painful memory. Muuuuuurdoch! For the constituents of MySpace.com, ownership of their beloved meeting ground by media mogul billionaire and alleged world domination hopeful Rupert Murdoch leaves a sour taste in the mouth. A short time ago, members of the most popular social networking site, then operated by Intermix Media, Inc., reveled in the online playground that allowed them to make friends and produce their own homepages, personalized with biographical information, photos, news, art-well, anything. But once the portal became the fifth most visited domain on the Internet, News Corp., parent company of Fox TV, Fox News, and 20th Century Fox, took note. The big daddy of News Corp., 74-year-old and rumored illuminati member, Rupert Murdoch had barely finished criticizing the newspaper industry of its cold-molasses slowness to embrace the Internet, when News Corp. acquired Intermix and its 22 million registered users for $580 million. Intermix is now a part of Fox Interactive Media. News of the acquisition was met with a healthy amount of disdain among MySpace users fearful that this is just another rung in Murdoch's Ladder, according to the