14 October 2006

MySpace is Ok on one score

Note to parents: relax on the MySpace front. The site isn't being used by prowling over-45s with dubious motives. The vast majority of users (as opposed to visitors) are "aged 14-30, with a skew to the lower end". Read the analysis at the excellent Dana Boyd's Apophenia blog (link below). I'd believe her rather than comScore and co.

Mind you, if you are worrying about anything else going on in MySpace apart from the possibility of "inappropriate adults" doing unmentionable things, you won't find out at the link.

Link: apophenia: comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray.

14 Oct 2006 20:58:03 | Web/Tech

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