The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102523   Message #2078432
Posted By: JohnInKansas
16-Jun-07 - 01:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who are you with Bebo or Myspace ?
Subject: RE: BS: Who are you with Bebo or Myspace ?
Many of us here are probably better suited for eons where you have to be "over 50" to join; but I can't say I'm much impressed by the site. Membership is fairly small - I think in the few hundred thousand thus far. The browse/search seems to tank on any category that might return more than about 90 results, and the members don't seem to be particularly "active," although it's impossible to tell whether they communicate "on the side" with each other. I don't know how "international" they are either, as I've only looked in a couple of times to see if there were any old people in my area.

In the "general" spaces at MySpace, now that school's out for the summer, most vague/general searches for "people my age" get about 80% of the hits being "63 year old" persons who are in their first year of Junior High School (or Middle School, as it's called in some places). I had rather forgotten how vacuous the conversation of pre-teens/tweens could be.

Lance Ulanoff, Product Review editor for PC Magazine, says MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed so they'll all go away soon anyhow. (He's right on stuff like this about as often as your local weather predicalator.)

John