Quote - I think myspace is overrated. I generally dont like the site, maybe I am too old for it, i think the main audience is around 14 years old.

 

14 is the youngest age that MySpace will allow to have an account. I haven't the foggiest notion what the average age is at the site. I'd guess that the average age of Poser users, based on a sampling of the profiles I've looked at (without doing a real mathematical average), is about late-20s to early-30s. That's typical of the other groups and profiles that I've seen. I'm not looking at the same things as a 14-year old, so I'm only seeing a sampling of ages of people with similar interests.

I'd love to see the media focus on the real problems with MySpace, such as spam, buggy code, and outages. Maybe they'd do more to fix the things that annoy its membership. Instead, the media focuses on topics that really apply across the internet, but focus on MySpace because it's relatively new and because it's bigger. Pick any forum, that appeals to kids, and do a Google search with that forum's name and "sexual predator" and there's probably a story about it. Type in the name "Disney" and there's stories about employees being arrested. Somebody else showed an MSNBC article about a woman, who posted an embarrassing photo on MySpace and lost a teaching job. Guess what?--post an embarrassing photo here and, if the boss catches wind of it, there will be one more person on unemployment. Post an embarrassing photo anywhere on the net and it's there for life and could have bad repercussions long into the future. These are problems with any forum and they're not peculiar to MySpace other than that MySpace's size and popularity makes them more noticeable. Let's face it--Americans really don't like anything that gets too big or too popular.

As to whether MySpace is overrated, it probably is. It's just a collective place where somebody can have an internet profile and there are good things and bad things about being the largest. One can argue about the merits of the specific process of finding people in MySpace versus some other networking site, but those don't tend to be the kinds of things that are newsworthy.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon