MySpace Suicide: The Megan Meier Story

MySpace is the Goliath of Internet websites right now globally. Although not as prevalent for the US population above 30, it is market presence and popularity cannot be denied. There is a story and method for their super-success and why MySpace is even making the national news! They have three powerful elements that have contributed to it is quantum growth since it began. First is the rise of Web 2.0 and social networking. Second is the buy of MySpace by megalo-mogul Rupert Murdoch. Third is the “teen factor”.

The current stats on MySpace are astounding. Alexa.com has rated them #3 web site, in terms of traffic, in the United States. The #1 web site in the US is Google, followed by #2 Yahoo. They are rated #6 internationally for an English language site. According to Web Pro News (10/24/2007), “Datamonitor predicts that social networking web sites will level off around the world in the year 2012….They’re expected to reach 230 million at the end of 2007″. The revenue projection in 2012 is $2.4 billion, equated to just $965 million currently. Web Pro News states that “MySpace dominates the US market by a long shot with Facebook at second, Google’s You Tube and Orkut combined in third, and Flickr at 7.1 percent. Those are big numbers for a company who’s spun doctor’s would have us believe that it had it is idyllic roots in a garage!

The actual story of MySpace is not rather so romantic. Wikipedia reports that MySpace was begun in 2003 by eUniverse, now called Intermix. Brad Greenspan, Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson put the firstborn project together. In July 2005 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million. Murdoch owns much of the media, as we recognise it, at least in the US. Murdoch News Corp. is the parent company of Fox Channel in the US amid other media enterprises. According to Journalist Trent Lipinsky in his well-known article “MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0″, the so-called American dream story of MySpace was a syndication campaign. He asserted that “Tom Anderson had in the first place been hired as a copy editor and his ‘founder’ and ‘first friend’ status was a public relations invention”. (Wikipedia 12/13/07)

The most recent news coverage of all-things-MySpace has not been positive publicity. There have been numerous worries over security of people and shelter of minors to Web predators. Teens run galore inventions and trends in the International Marketplace, like the cell phone tech driven by teens in Japan! MySpace’s popularity is also teen driven. Teens have made MySpace a big success with membership going from zero to 47.3 million in 2 years, largely attributed to minors. Naturally, it would be good to protect this teen-o-phile internetlocation from the pursuit of potential offenders. Because the Internet is for the most part an unregulated industry the government has been attempting to put major limitations on access. Along with adult sexual predators, there is a potential for other abuse in cyberspace. In October 2007 the highly publicized story of a teen that devoted suicide due to a kinship on MySpace shocked the press. 13-year-old Megan Meier was found dead in her bedroom from an apparent suicide because of a being turned on by a guy named Josh on MySpace. Josh, it turns out, was not even a real person but a sick concoction made up by the mother of a neighborhood girl who had antecedently been friends with Megan. They say that even bad advertizing is good publicity, as MySpace has now been on the minds and computers of a far more prominent populace now.

The rapid explosion of MySpace is unquestionably not going to be decelerating down anytime soon and it is getting a share of a great deal of people’s each day life all over the globe. Let’s hope the world community may take the reigns of this wild stallion and make it safer. And if MySpace shares are still for the taking, it would be great time to invest NOW!

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Myspace Suicide The Megan Meier Story

Please note that the content of this book mainly comprises of articles available from Wikipedia or other free origins online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Suicide of Megan Meier, Doe v. MySpace, Anna Svidersky, Wendi Deng, Koobface, Playfish, The MySpace Movie, Brad Greenspan, Lost in MySpace, MyDeathSpace.com, FreshGames, MySpaceIM, ILike, MySpace Records, Atheist and Agnostic Group, Tom Anderson, The MySpace Transmissions, Ben Folds Live at MySpace DVD, Roommates, Chris DeWolfe, The Myspace Transmissions Session 2009, Jason Ling, Myspace mystery shows, The Myspace Transmissions, Vol. 11, Operation MySpace, Front to back. Excerpt: Myspace, stylized My_____ and antecedently MySpace, is a social networking website. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California. Myspace became the most ordinary social networking internetlocation in the United States in June 2006, a position that it kept allround 2007 until 2008. However by April 2008, according to comScore, Myspace was overtaken internationally by it is main competitor, Facebook, based on on a monthly basis distinctive visitors.Since then MySpace has declined steadily in spite of various drastic redesigns. Quantcast estimates MySpace’s on a monthly basis U.S. distinctive visitors at 19.7 million as of May 2011. The internetlocation rating of Myspace as of July 2011 was 85,as opposed to the number 2 position kept by Facebook. At it is peak Myspace applied 1,600 employees, which was scaled down to 1,000 after laying off 30% of it is workforce in June 2009. By June 2011, further occupation cuts scaled down it is size to 400 employees, with Myspace to lay off at least 150 workers and put another 150 laborers on a transition plan in which they may still work for compensate temporarily while looking for another job. As a subsidiary from July 2005 to June 2011, Myspace does not disclose revenues or profits separately from it is parent News Corporation. On June 29, 2011, Myspace was sold to Specific Media for US$35 million plus a 5 percent stake in Specific Media. Pop star Justin Timberlake likewise took a smal…

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