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Monday, June 15th, 2009In case you were wondering … It’s over. Facebook is now as large as MySpace in the U.S., according to May data released today by comScore. Facebook actually passed MySpace by a smidgeon, with 70.278 million unique visitors compared to MySpace’s 70.255 million. While Facebook passed MySpace on a worldwide basis last year, as recently [...]
Social Media Behavioral Disorders, from Despair.com
Monday, June 15th, 2009HT: Despair.com
Facebook: No. 1 Globally
Friday, August 15th, 2008Facebook … is the top global social network, according to figures released by comScore (SCOR) on Aug. 12. Of Facebook’s 132 million users, nearly 63% are outside North America. … Facebook has been particularly successful in terms of sheer user adoption. Its number of new members was up 153% in June from the same month [...]
Targeted Advertising
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Perhaps Myspace saw this, or just received lots of disgruntled emails from Christians subscribers. But today I noticed a different kind of advertising when I logged into Myspace. Instead of the usual underwear clad teenage girl urging me to be “naughty,” I saw this: Myspace’s targeted advertising department got the Christian part down. But the [...]
Growing Up Online
Friday, March 14th, 2008John Liotti and Chris Brooks scooped me on this, but PBS Frontline continued it’s must-view documentary look at youth culture and media in a new series called “Growing up Online.” It basically picks up where “Merchants of Cool” left off five or so years ago. It’s must-see TV for anyone interested in youth ministry and/or [...]
Seduced Myspace teen kills self; parents sue.
Monday, January 7th, 2008The parents of a California teenager who committed suicide after being sexually assaulted by a Celina man she met through MySpace are suing the popular social-networking Web site in Dallas court. According to the lawsuit, the 14-year-old girl, identified as Julie Doe, began a “cyber-relationship” with Kiley Ryan Bowers of Celina in 2005. Their online [...]
A workshop by any other name …
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007FYI: to all the ATS youth ministry students and the NOC “Myspace” attendees: The “Have You Seen Your Kids’ Myspace?” workshop has the same content as “Mooks, Midriffs, Myspace & More: Engaging a Plugged-in Generation.” Download the powerpoint and source material here.
As Facebook takes off, MySpace strikes back
Friday, October 12th, 2007“It’s easy to dismiss MySpace, with its unruly graphics, clunky navigation, and general sense of chaos. But the masses love it. MySpace is the most trafficked website in the U.S.: It registered 45 billion page views in July, according to comScore Media Metrix. Another research firm, Compete.com, calculates that Americans spend about 12% of all [...]
Off to CCDA in the morning
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I’ll blog as much of the conference as possible, but in the meantime check out the latest copy of CCDA’s eRestorer newsletter online, which features “Our Father, Who Art in Cyberspace… Will you relocate to love the MySpace Generation?” by yours truly. At CCDA I’ll be presenting two workshops: “WebSpace: Relocation when the Neighborhood Moves [...]
Web schmoozing builds your resume
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007From the Jobs section of Monday’s NY Post, “Myspace Race”: “Having social-networking skills is now like being able to use Microsoft Office – it’s a basic requirement,†says Paul Forster of the job search engine Indeed.com, where the number of jobs with “social networking†in the description has tripled since last year. And: It seems [...]
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