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MySpace getting old... literally
According to comScore Media Metrix, MySpace users are starting to look a bit long in the tooth. Despite the common conception of MySpace as a teenybopper mecca, comScore says that half of all MySpace users are 35 or older, and the under-25 set makes up only 30 percent of its population. comScore has never been accused of incredible accuracy, but GigaOM's Liz Gannes called Fox Interactive whose spokesperson, Ann Burkart, confirmed the numbers' accuracy. According to Burkart, the 35+ demographic is growing fast on MySpace, having made up only 39.5 of MySpace's users a year ago.
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Chris said 2:23PM on 10-06-2006
hmmm 35+ people.. Old men looking for young women.
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notnamed said 3:02PM on 10-06-2006
The numbers, of course, have nothing to do with the fact that teenagers commonly lie about their age on MySpace - making themselves older - to avoid being searched out by internet predators. My friends and I had a discussion about that very subject just the other day.
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camflan said 3:08PM on 10-06-2006
or...it could be that all the under 25 people are on facebook instead. they feel safer there.
not to mention how horrid of a site myspace is, not only in content, but in design.
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Drea567 said 7:30PM on 10-06-2006
'notnamed' brings up an excellent point. You can enter any age/birthday in your user info (to make you 69 or 100 years old, or whatever); plus there are so many MySpace accounts for businesses, fictional characters, inanimate objects, pets (and so on) that I would not count as real "users". It would be extremely hard to get accurate numbers on the age of people using MySpace (way too many variables to take into account).
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SwiftBlue said 5:12AM on 10-07-2006
"...having made up only 39.5 of MySpace's users a year ago."
I'd hope that's a precent, or half a person was using MySpace.
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Jordan Running said 11:45AM on 10-07-2006
Heh. Right you are, SwiftBlue.
And notnamed and Drea567: I'm fairly certain that comScore's methods are a tad more sophisticated than reading the ages off people's MySpace pages. comScore might not be a bastion of total accuracy, but they're not complete noobs.
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yeh so what said 7:29PM on 10-07-2006
I am 35 and I am on MySpace just to show off pix of our son to friends and family
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'09 Mustangs said 4:57PM on 10-10-2006
Is this really that big of a surprise? Just do a search on myspace and you'll find tons of people who are over 35. The difference is that I believe those people just make a myspace page to show to family/friends and rarely update it while the teens are the ones making up the majority of myspace "content"
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