MySpace and Facebook are losing visitors

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Both MySpace and Facebook lost visitors in September, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, a Web-tracking service. The number of unique U.S. visitors at MySpace fell 4% to 47.2 million from 49.2 million in August, and the number of visitors to Facebook fell 12% to 7.8 million from 8.9 million.

Charles Buchwalter, an analyst at Nielsen/NetRatings, says the slowdown is seasonal; last September, both sites also lost visitors as students went back to school, but then rebounded. Facebook spokeswoman Melanie Deitch says the Palo Alto, Calif., company's own numbers show that the number of registered Facebook users rose 9% to 11 million in September, while the number of individual page views rose 40% to 16.5 billion.
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Facebook's traffic fell 12% in September. You figure their traffic would spike what with the new school year kicking off and them opening the site for everyone to use.
 
Nah, I think it's falling because of the new school year. You don't have the kids waking up every morning spending hours on their myspace and facebook.
 
I got a message last night from an old friend, which was a nice surprise. Turns out he went to Iraq and survived! I thought it was cool, anyway. mySpace has its uses!
 
demi said:
I got a message last night from an old friend, which was a nice surprise. Turns out he went to Iraq and survived! I thought it was cool, anyway. mySpace has its uses!
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I wonder if anyone is sending you any strange messages right now.
 
AlanHemberger said:
Nah, I think it's falling because of the new school year. You don't have the kids waking up every morning spending hours on their myspace and facebook.
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Apparently you don't go to a college/university. If you do, go look in your general computer lab and see what people are doing.
 
Taking a look around my school's computer lab, I see 17 people on myspace. 2 people are on Wikipedia. There are 19 people in the computer lab.

We're all doomed. bail out lol
 
Aristotlekh said:
Taking a look around my school's computer lab, I see 17 people on myspace. 2 people are on Wikipedia. There are 19 people in the computer lab.

We're all doomed. bail out lol
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We'd better hope Wikipedia is mostly accurate. I have a feeling that's where 90% of the research in college papers comes from nowadays.
 
I'm a part-time CLT (college lab tech) as of this semester in addition to my other job, and in our lab of 87 computers it's somewhat disturbing to see how many people are on MySpace all the time.
 
Mashing said:
Apparently you don't go to a college/university. If you do, go look in your general computer lab and see what people are doing.
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Well was this traffic counted by IP numbers that visited? Or people that logged in?
 
White Man said:
We'd better hope Wikipedia is mostly accurate. I have a feeling that's where 90% of the research in college papers comes from nowadays.
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Yes. Wikipedia's popularity scares me.

All my smart, internet-savvy professors ban it. And thank God.

That said, I do use wikipedia without citing it in classes I care nothing about, e.g. "Exploring Contemporary Television." I don't give a shit if my information on Rod Serling isn't accurate. I have enough things to legitimately study as it is.
 
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