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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites 344

Posted by CowboyNeal from the emo-teens-have-spoken dept.
prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."
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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites

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  • in other news (Score:5, Funny)

    by Loconut1389 ( 455297 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:21PM (#15126861)
    after the slashdot appearance of the article, MySpace.com is now #4.

    • Re:in other news (Score:5, Funny)

      by 19thNervousBreakdown ( 768619 ) <davec-slashdot&lepertheory,net> on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:47PM (#15126978) Homepage

      Ugh, no thanks. That place is the most awful cespool on the Internet. 42TB pages, everybody's got their own shit music playing as if whoever visits wants to hear it, all for the privilege of girls with 6 inches of cake makeup posing for cleavage shots, guys dressed up like Gotti with one eyebrow raised, and the most inane, unintelligible comments imaginable, with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.

      • Re:in other news (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Firehed ( 942385 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:00PM (#15127036) Homepage
        Apparently I've avoided myspace better than you so I never had to put up with it. It's worse than I thought. Hopefully people will realize that static backgrounds are so 1996. Funny how that is... back when I was learning to code html in notepad, my websites looked about the same, but everything was lower resolution and I actually had to do it myself.

        They might as well just call it n00bspace.

        What really freaks me out is real.com at #9. Who the hell goes to real.com? Surely there isn't that big of a market for doing nothing but downloading the unquestionably worst media player in existance. Unless myspace makes you have realplayer installed to put up with the annoying crap in everyone's pages, so they've got the entire community of 'omg lookit me I've got my own website!!11' noobs worldwide, plus the odd person who actually thinks it's worthwhile.

        Maybe I'm just being overly fond of the days when even geeks had dialup and having your own 15mb web presence on Geocities was the cool thing to do (mine's still there!) You'd think that since you can get a domain plus enough hosting to do a mypsace page without the noob for about $30 a year, people might go for that option. Honestly, is myspace.com/noob any more attractive of a site address than geocities.com/noob? Why be a crappy wannabe when you can have noob.com and use your host's page builder app and do wannabe right?

        • $30 a year??? (Score:2, Interesting)

          by Frosty Piss ( 770223 )
          You'd think that since you can get a domain plus enough hosting to do a mypsace page without the noob for about $30 a year...

          You're paying WAY too much.

          • I have a real host for a real website, not a myspace-quality load of crap (and consequently pay more than $30 per hear). My point was it's more than cheap enough to have a real site instead of one of these silly community-based things where your friends list includes that friend of a friend of a friend of a friend who turns out to be located in some basement of an internet cafe in Bangledesh.

        • Re:in other news (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Eneff ( 96967 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @12:50AM (#15127459)
          I, like you, missed the entire point of myspace for a few months.

          I still don't like it, but I understand it now. It's much like hanging out in a trendy nightclub. At home, I can make the drinks better, I have better taste in decor (what, dragons on the walls isn't better?), and I have full control of my castle.

          But the nightclub is where all the people are!

          It's a way to connect with all of your friends, with a common identification system. Yes, it's ugly as fuck, but that's not the point.

          • Re:in other news (Score:5, Interesting)

            by sacdelta ( 135513 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @02:03AM (#15127650)
            I found it even more useful as a way to reconnect with people you haven't seen in awhile. I don't remember why I originally set up the page, but I managed to be found by people I haven't seen in 5-10 years. People who wandered to other parts of the globe. Of course I've had to deal with some more annoying aspects too, but the benefits definitely outweighed the costs. I just keep my friends list to people I've actually met in real life.

            Different people get different things out of it. For me it's a way to update all of my friends in one spot. For others it is a competition to get as many friends on their list as possible.

            I've also found it quite useful in discovering new music. I tend to listen to some of the more obscure genres so I can't hear the new stuff on the radio (except for the occasional college station). By looking at who is linked to bands I like, I can check them out, get a sample of their music and then decide if I want to hear more or not.
          • Even LiveJournal does a better job of all that than myspace.

        • Re:in other news (Score:5, Informative)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, 2006 @02:04AM (#15127654)
          Who the hell goes to real.com?

          Two things:
          1. I believe the Real Player loads the real.com page in its "minibrowser", so anyone who uses Real and doesn't shut off the minibrowser goes there regularly.
          2. These ratings are generally gathered from clueless people who have let the survey companies install web bugs on their computer. These are exactly the kind of people who use Real Player.
      • Amen brotha!
    • Just wait until it hits digg.

  • Content Trumps Design (Score:5, Insightful)

    by RunFatBoy.net ( 960072 ) * on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:23PM (#15126873)
    Just goes to show, content and relationships will trump design everytime. MySpace is definite proof.

    Jim http://www.runfatboy.net/ [runfatboy.net] -- Exercise for the rest of us.

    • Re:Content Trumps Design (Score:5, Insightful)

      by moosesocks ( 264553 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:16PM (#15127101) Homepage
      Not always. flickr is a good example

      there were dozens of other mildly successful photography communities before flickr came along, many of which covered the social networking aspect of flickr much better.

      flickr simply has the best mix of community and design out there, hence its success among pro photographers and occasional shutterbugs alike.

      facebook is another example. It's basically a well-designed myspace for college kids with proper privacy features. It took hold in a market where dozens of other sites had failed miserably. The design's clean, the site's never been slow to memory (despite exponential growth). Because of this, it is far more prevalent than Myspace among college kids. At my medium-sized state school, I'd estimate that about 90%+ of the student body uses facebook regularly. It's that popular. It's preferred over myspace because it's fast, usable, and not creepy.
      • When I was in college, several years ago, there were thefacebook, MySpace, and Friendster. Here's how it broke down:

        1. Friendster was old-school, lovable, slow. Wrinkled. Crammed with ads. The album of photos you burned the summer before school.

        2. thefacebook: Fratboys, sorority girls, other assorted meatheads. Oh, it had its day, all right, which lasted about a week.

        3. MySpace, the site for "the rest of us." Music and art.

        4. Evites are king, now and always.

        I hope you found this as enlightening as I

      • Re:Content Trumps Design (Score:3, Interesting)

        by cide1 ( 126814 )
        I'll second this. Myspace may get the most hits overall, but here at Purdue, everyone who does this sort of thing uses Facebook. Facebook is infinitly better than Myspace. The photo album feature makes it easy to share photos, and the privacy of Facebook has much better granularity. Furthermore, you have to belong to one of the Universities (or now some highschools) to use it. I believe this is enforced by email address, at least it used to be. This keeps the 40 year old creeps away.
    • Yeah, 'cause the content on MySpace is so kewl.
  • I mean, we all knew MySpace was headed for the top, as we all know Madonna is not really English, even if she now has an English fake accent. So, is this a case of reality being announced before the news get it?

  • I guess... (Score:3, Funny)

    by Cheapy ( 809643 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:25PM (#15126881)
    I guess it's not MySpace anymore, but OurSpace...

  • Real? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by dalutong ( 260603 ) <djtansey AT gmail DOT com> on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:27PM (#15126890)
    Who goes to real.com?

  • But (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:28PM (#15126895)
    I just took this Nielson Net survey a few days ago (they sent me $15 cash!)
    It is very long, but on some of the pages I noticed that sites like slashdot where not a choice to even select. On the page where myspace was a choice of sites you visit, livejournal was not! I'm not sure how well the "write-in" box at the bottom gets counted, but I really question the integrity of the whole thing.

    • Re:But (Score:4, Insightful)

      by realityfighter ( 811522 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:50PM (#15126988) Homepage
      They were probably collecting data for the companies in the list. Nielsen makes its money selling consumer data, not doing unbiased research.
      • ..they could be trying to spoil the pool.

        I used to run the databases for the a marketing company that would try to mimic Neilsen's (and Arbitron's) methodology for selecting people. We would then bombard the neighborhood with direct mail for radio and TV stations. Contests and write ins and such.

        The idea was to get the call letters top of mind so that if a real journal came in, the target would remember that, write it down, and it would be like all 10,000 people you mailed were listening/watching.
    • sites like slashdot where not a choice to even select.

      Nielson is interested in sites that draw the kind of numbers OSTG can only dream of.

  • Publicity (Score:3, Insightful)

    by lecithin ( 745575 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:29PM (#15126899)
    I hadn't even heard of myspace.com until the stories about rent for sex, police stings that came out over the past several months.

    You hear about the bad stuff (and teenage girls) and poof, it gets hits.

  • web hits vs. actual web use (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Gothmolly ( 148874 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:29PM (#15126903)
    So Real's crappy phone-home player may send 100000000 pagehits to their site every month, but (I guess) people actually use MySpace, as retarded as it is. This is a meaningless statistic.
    • It's not clear that these statistics have anything to do with pagehits. Another poster mentioned filling out a survey...
    • So Real's crappy phone-home player may send 100000000 pagehits to their site every month, but (I guess) people actually use MySpace, as retarded as it is. This is a meaningless statistic.

      You are clearly wrong about people actually using MySpace. It has become clear to me that most people, including myself, use MySpace as an MP3 jukebox. Let me explain by telling you about my average MpSpace encounter:

      Based on serious scientific studies, I can safely say the average MySpace profile contains approximat

  • Real.com (Score:2, Redundant)

    by NitsujTPU ( 19263 )
    People visit real.com?

  • Everytime Someone Goes to MySpace.... (Score:5, Funny)

    by ImaNihilist ( 889325 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:34PM (#15126924)
    ...the internet dies just a little bit. The future if the internet grows bleek. Some people spend so much time whoring themselves out on MySpace, that's all they use the internet for. Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.

    God save the interweb.

  • How many emo kids does it take to screw in a light (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:35PM (#15126926)
    None, they'll just sit in the dark and cry.

  • Now I feel better (Score:5, Funny)

    by LittleLebowskiUrbanA ( 619114 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:37PM (#15126934) Homepage Journal
    Losing my faith in /. but it turns out we're all united in our hatred of MySpace.

  • Biggest productivity-killer around (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:37PM (#15126936)
    MySpace is the worst thing for business productivity since Solitaire. We blocked MySpace a few weeks ago because it accounted for literally 10-15% of our company's outbound web traffic - I'm talking about thousands and thousands of MySpace URIs visited per day, at a company of ~75 people.

    • One page load of a MySpace page averages around 9GB, so yeah, I could see that.

    • is it a company full of 8th graders?
    • Count yourself lucky you don't work in a 500+ student high school that gives all their students laptop computers and wireless internet access. I don't have access to traffic statistics (I'm a student/part time IT employee) but between that and p2p traffic I'm not sure which one would win for killing our bandwidth. Don't you worry kiddies, we'll soon be blocking MySpace's IPs at the PIX box. Muhahaha.

    • Re:Biggest productivity-killer around (Score:5, Funny)

      by HolyCrapSCOsux ( 700114 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:33PM (#15127175)
      We run a keylogger every so often as a <insert corporatespeak term for "Catching Red Handed"> for employees that are doing everything OTHER THAN working. Here's a neat snippet. Keep in mind that this person HAS somehow managed to graduate from high school.
      21/11/05 12:46:53 on computer ------- user ----
      in application "C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE" and window "Myspace.com - Mozilla Firefox"
      pressed: hey girly it was fun this weekend i had a blast messin with u guys we i hope to see u later okay well ttul niggaheyhey buddy what the hell u cant ever talk to me any more that makes me sad well happy bday and sorry that me and nick didnt go to ur party we had to help him mom with some hings but i cut his hair off i mean like his hair is only like an in. 1/2 long but i like it he looks so different though.. well happy bday again and have fun on thanks giving k well ttul nigga . -------NOT MUCH JUST CHILLIN AT WORK HAVING FUN WELL WHA U BEEN UP TO LATELY U STILL GO TOTA CO BELL ALL THE TIME... WELL TTUL ------WELL IM NOT SHORE WHEN IM DONG IT BUT AS SOON AS POSIBLE WHEN IM OUT OF SCHOOL BUT I WANT TO GO IN TO BISSINES SO I CAN START ON GETING NY OWN SALON AND WELL KNOW HOW TO RUN IT WITH OUT HAVEING PEOPLE JIP ME SO I KNOW WHAT IM DOING BUT ITS WHAT I WANT TO DO THAT WOULD BE HELLA COOL IF WE COLD DO SOME CLASSES TO GETHER THAT WOULD BE SWETTTTT WEL I TALK TO U LATER K IM GETIN OFF ARO...
      Makes you want to cry a little doesn't it?
      • terminate this idiot. i don't mean fire, i mean kill.

      • Re:Biggest productivity-killer around (Score:5, Funny)

        by TheNarrator ( 200498 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @02:09AM (#15127665)
        Your post was great but I see this kind of thing all the time in really badly written emails to customer service. I think Slashdot has spoiled you. Despite all the moaning and groaning the Slashdot audience is fairly well educated and can write tolerably. You haven't had to spend a lot of time with exceptionally stupid and/or very poorly educated people since high school no doubt (if you went to public school), but they're out there and there are lots and lots of them and Myspace caters to them. I'm actually really happy that the great uneducated masses are learning to type, get a thought across at some level or another and do basic internet stuff.
  • ...That there is no such thing as bad publicity.

    Thanks you, Whackie Right and TV Newsers, for going all out to drive hits to myspace.com.

    Can you badmouth my blog, now?

    Retards.

  • Sorry... (Score:3, Funny)

    by StevenHenderson ( 806391 ) <stevehenderson.gmail@com> on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:42PM (#15126952)
    but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.

    • Re:Sorry... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Vorondil28 ( 864578 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:06PM (#15127059) Journal
      but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.

      Flamebait? Yes. True? Most definitely.

      • Re:Sorry... (Score:3, Funny)

        by strider44 ( 650833 )
        I disagree. I don't see how you could code even something as bad as Myspace just by having sex with any sort of monkey, let alone retarded ones.

        Hey it's holidays, I'm allowed to have fun.

    • Re:Sorry... (Score:2, Insightful)

      by libra-dragon ( 701553 )
      So true, but that's not their main problem. It appears to me that they change their code constantly thoughout the day. So, it's not so much the retarded monkeys' coding so much as their ability to keep their shitty code out of production. They must do their development on their production servers, because there's always something in the middle of the day that just broke and they're working on a fix. That's not how a top 10 site should operate. They need to get some change control in place --perhaps QA/QC as
  • Did anyone notice the average time spent for AOL? It was double that of the next longest below it. I belive this is even more proof that AOL users are just plain slow.

  • The Children of Myspace (Score:5, Funny)

    by cualexander ( 576700 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:49PM (#15126985)
    There is a video on iFilm that pokes fun of Myspace. Basically its the "Greatest Love" song by Whitney Houston.

    The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."

    Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.

    Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146 [ifilm.com]

  • Cheap & Easy to Use ... but is it Classy? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by rewinn ( 647614 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:51PM (#15126990) Homepage

    MySpace is an apparently successful implementation of the concept that "anyone can have a useful web site without much work."

    TruGeeks may prefer to buy (actually "rent") a domain name, rent space somewhere, AND maintaine the site using the technology du jour, but for a great many people, myspace does what they need without their having to think too hard about it, or to pay for it.

    The question I still have is whether myspace URLs connote poorly, relative to unique-domain URLs, in the same way that AOL or hotmail addresses connote poorly, compared to unique-domain URLs do. In case this is unclear, let me offer an example. I think most people will agree that zzxyz@aol.com connotes something a little less classy than zzxyz@zzxyz.com. The question is, will myspace have sufficient acceptance that a URL such as http://www.myspace.com/rewinn [myspace.com] will be an acceptable substitute for something like http://rewinn.com [rewinn.com]?

  • hmm (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Billly Gates ( 198444 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:52PM (#15126994) Journal
    I wonder what www.slashdot.org is? It has to be up there in the top 30 at least.

  • What about time-spent using a service?

    In that case, how would World of Warcraft play into the rankings. Running one raid requires more time than I spend on myspace in three months. I just pop into myspace, check comments, post a few comments, and check-out.

    And people are paying to play WoW. There are those that would pay to use myspace, but if they ever proposed that, the next free service would take off. I'm also concerned about click-through rates on myspace. From what I see on myspace, all that exists ar

  • Well, duh! (Score:5, Funny)

    by QuantumG ( 50515 ) <qg@biodome.org> on Thursday April 13, 2006 @10:56PM (#15127015) Homepage Journal
    Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.

  • top quality crap. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by marcushnk ( 90744 ) <senectus@nOSPam.gmail.com> on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:01PM (#15127040) Journal
    Bloody impressive setup..
    I decided to go have a look and see what myspace is all about, jumped on the "tour" and then found that the second page in was broken:
    http://www.modmeup.net/wp-content/myspace-brkn.png [modmeup.net]

    Quality setup guys... :-P

  • RealPlayer highly popular in Asia. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:22PM (#15127134)
    I have seen a lot of comments here regarding why Real.com is ranked so highly. It likely is because their player does access content from their site regularly.

    Most North Americans and Europeans fail to understand how vastly popular RealPlayer is in Asia. There have been some reports of over 75% of Indian computer users using RealPlayer, since it has very good support for languages such as Urdu, Tamil, Bengali, and Hindi. It also has superb support for Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and other Asian languages, thus leading to a high degree of usage there (although not as much as in India).

  • According to Alexa.. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Sir Pallas ( 696783 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:34PM (#15127182) Homepage
    MySpace has been in the top ten since January.
  • I ask, because I've been working on creating a new social networking site that's geared more towards the academic side. There's still a lot of work to do on the site, but I'm curious what features people would want from a more academic standpoint? (Maybe this would be a good Ask Slashdot)?

    http://www.apbctr.com/ [apbctr.com] Please understand that it's still a massive work in progress, and effectively one person doing the coding and another person doing the economics (I hope the webserver can handle it).

    I'll be curio

  • not your space (Score:5, Interesting)

    by samnice ( 879259 ) on Thursday April 13, 2006 @11:58PM (#15127273) Homepage
    I'm just a little suprised at the comments about MySpace. Clearly i am in a minority of /. readers who actually enjoys and uses MySpace. Granted, i only began using it a few weeks ago, but i have actually had fun using html and then teaching it to my friends so they can improve their pages. but most importantly, i have reconnected with a lot of old friends who now live in other cities. No other social networking website i have used before has been able to do that for me. The real item of interest i thought was the "average usage time" stat. MySpace users average over 2 hours/session. Thats on par with ebay and Yahoo. and twice that of Google. thats a lot of ads. ads = $ = power whether the techno-istas poo-poo it or not.

    • Re:not your space (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      You're still in the honeymoon phase and honestly, if those past friends actually meant something to you, you would have found them someway. The internet makes sincerity seem easy.

  • Microsoft #2 ?!?! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Namlak ( 850746 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @12:07AM (#15127306)
    The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS [microsoft.com] page or despite it?

  • chinese websites? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by t35t0r ( 751958 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @12:23AM (#15127355)
    What about the statistics from chinese websites? That "top 10" list hasn't a clue.

  • Linux users can be proud... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Glowing Fish ( 155236 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @12:26AM (#15127364) Homepage
    Usually, I like to point out that many very mainstream, popular corporate website runs on Linux, or else on commercial Unix.

    But, in this case, I think I can proudly say, Myspace is running Windows.

    Myspace on netcraft [netcraft.com]

  • The Olden Days (Score:2, Informative)

    by thejeffer ( 864748 )
    I liked myspace better in the olden days... when it was called Geocities.

    Seriously. Myspace is just the whole "make your own homepage" concept all over again, but this time with a built in way to search for other homepages that look as crappy as yours.

    OMG! U got a [insert craptacular emo/hiphop/boy band] vide0 on yur page 2! Letz like be friendz forever!
  • It would be fun to find the absolute worst CSS on MySpace and substitute it on slashdot using Firefox's custom CSS feature. Talk about making the dot even more annoying, who's up for it?

  • That's it. (Score:3, Funny)

    by Jethro ( 14165 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @01:34AM (#15127581) Homepage
    echo "0.0.0.0      www.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts

    'nuff said.

  • *shakes head sadly* (Score:3, Funny)

    by thewrathoffluffy ( 920910 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @01:58AM (#15127638)
    I'm a CS student in college right now and I can sadly say I can vouch for how out of control the myFace/Spacebook craze has gotten... Another CS friend summed it up pretty well with this quote:

    "I've almost quit telling people I'm interested in computers anymore, because I keep getting the same responce: 'Oh, so does that mean you're like good at facebook?'"

    I think I died a little bit inside when he said that...

  • Best use for myspace I've heard (Score:3, Interesting)

    by The Wooden Badger ( 540258 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @04:43AM (#15127997) Homepage Journal
    Love line was on the radio at work the other night and I heard Dr. Drew saying how he used myspace. When his girls meet some boy and he has a myspace page, Dr. Drew takes a look and can make a reasonable judgement call of "you are not going to see this guy again" or "have fun". I have to keep that in mind when my daughter gets a little older.

  • This is scary, because they censor (Score:3, Informative)

    by giminy ( 94188 ) on Friday April 14, 2006 @07:19AM (#15128287) Homepage Journal
    Myspace is owned by Rupert Murdoch & Company. Before anyone confuses me with a conspiracy theorist, they really do censor what you can write via Myspace. Article text is here: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/200601/msg00095.html [interesting-people.org] .

    I tried to post the above article on my Myspace message board, but it never actually gets posted (gets filtered out). I ran it through a l33tsp34k filter and it will post just fine.

    Kind of scary, if only because people probably don't expect the service to do that kind of filtering.

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