I had heard in a podcast somewhere that the average MySpace user is 35. I forgot where I heard that, so I could never link back to it. Thankfully,
Amanda Mooney clipped this.
Lately, I’ve been visiting the social networks more to promote my blog. If you check Alexa, of the top 10 visited sites in the U.S., you’ll see either search engines or social sites like Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, and Flickr. You can only do so much to get a good spot on search engines. If, however, you work the social networks, you can draw some traffic and make friends.
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than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site’s Demographic
Composition Continues to Shift |
Visitors to MySpace.com and
Friendster.com generally skew older, with people age 25 and older comprising 68
and 71 percent of their user bases, respectively.� Meanwhile, Xanga.com has a
younger user profile, with 20 percent of its users in the 12-17 age range,
about twice as high as that age segment’s representation within the total
Internet audience.� Not surprisingly, Facebook.com, which began as a social
networking site for college students, also draws a younger audience.� More than
one-third (34 percent) of visitors to Facebook.com are 18-24 years old,
approximately three times the representation of that age segment in the general
Internet population. |
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