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A New Menace in Town
June 13, 2008
The world quakes in renewed terror as
Facebook rises up to beat MySpace as the top social network in the world. Though still lagging behind MySpace in the US market, Facebook has overtaken the menace that nobody thought would ever stop menacing. Ding dong the witch is dead (or is she?).
Unless one of the 24 hour news channels, desperate for content to fill the void from the finally completed primary season, notices this and devotes entirely too much time covering this minor geek point it is quite likely that nobody will even notice that things have changed. My guess is that MySpace has noticed already, seeing as how the TechCrunch post that preceded the Facebook news was the
announcement of a redesign underway at MySpace.
So what does this mean for you? Why should librarians care? We must care because the real story isn't which site is on top, but the fact that together the sites are attracting over 230 million unique visitors a month worldwide. Let's put that into perspective:
But wait...that might be a bit global for a Friday afternoon. Perhaps we should take this a bit more local:
If the 108,000,000 unique monthly visitors to MySpace and Facebook in the United States all got together, they would be bigger than California and Texas combined. How much bigger? The 8 million spare users that got rounded off in this graphic could be covered if we just threw in New York City to MyFacebookstate as well.
Is it important to follow what is happening on the two websites whose unique monthly visitors equal the size of the 4th largest country worldwide and more than the two biggest states combined here at home? I think so.
Posted by Chris Harris on June 13, 2008 | Comments (0)
