Concerned Parents Online
Contrary to what readers might think, I really don't spend day in and day out searching the Internet for MySpace information. I have Google alerts sent to my inbox so that each time social networking sites make the news, I know about it.
Today my inbox was flooded with posts claiming that MySpace's day is done- that Generation My has lost their interest with the social networking site and are on to the next fad.
Statistics such as these, courtesy of http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/10/some_stats_on_m.html, point in that direction:
Teens (users aged 12 to 17) represent only 11.9% of MySpace's audience -- a drop from 24.7% in August 2005.
Internet users aged 35 to 54 account for 40.6% of MySpace's visitor base -- up 8.2% in the past year.
68% of MySpace users, 71% of Friendster users, and 43.7% of Facebook users are over age 25.
34% of Facebook users, 18.1% of MySpace users, and 15.6% of Friendster users are 18-to 24-year-olds.
Only 11.3% of all internet users are 18- to 24-year-olds.So maybe our youth has moved past this fad and onto the next. Parents across the country are collectively letting out a sigh of relief.
But the fad happened, the lesson is learned, and our understanding is changed- it's a big virtual world out there and we need to be keenly aware of just what our kids are doing in it.
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