MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites

prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."

in other news

[Loconut1389]

after the slashdot appearance of the article, MySpace.com is now #4.

Why is this relevant?

[mi_cuenta]

I mean, we all knew MySpace was headed for the top, as we all know Madonna is not really English, even if she now has an English fake accent. So, is this a case of reality being announced before the news get it?

I guess...

[Cheapy]

I guess it's not MySpace anymore, but OurSpace...

Everytime Someone Goes to MySpace....

[ImaNihilist]

...the internet dies just a little bit. The future if the internet grows bleek. Some people spend so much time whoring themselves out on MySpace, that's all they use the internet for. Still, they need that 6Mbps connection because some profiles try to load 200MB of videos, sounds, CSS, cursors, and animated GIFs all at the same time.

God save the interweb.

How many emo kids does it take to screw in a light

[Anonymous Coward]

None, they'll just sit in the dark and cry.

Now I feel better

[LittleLebowskiUrbanA]

Losing my faith in /. but it turns out we're all united in our hatred of MySpace.

Re:Biggest productivity-killer around

[19thNervousBreakdown]

One page load of a MySpace page averages around 9GB, so yeah, I could see that.

Sorry...

[StevenHenderson]

but MySpace behaves as though it were coded by fucking retarded monkeys.

Average time

[NIK282000]

Did anyone notice the average time spent for AOL? It was double that of the next longest below it. I belive this is even more proof that AOL users are just plain slow.

Re:in other news

[19thNervousBreakdown]

Ugh, no thanks. That place is the most awful cespool on the Internet. 42TB pages, everybody's got their own shit music playing as if whoever visits wants to hear it, all for the privilege of girls with 6 inches of cake makeup posing for cleavage shots, guys dressed up like Gotti with one eyebrow raised, and the most inane, unintelligible comments imaginable, with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.

The Children of Myspace

[cualexander]

There is a video on iFilm that pokes fun of Myspace. Basically its the "Greatest Love" song by Whitney Houston.

The one that goes, "I believe the children are our future..."

Then it goes on to show the dumb photos that people post.

Its funny stuff... http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2713146 [ifilm.com]

Well, duh!

[QuantumG]

Anywhere you can pick up lose women is bound to be popular.

Re:Real?

[davidc]

No-one intentionally goes to Real.com.

Only reason Real.com is up there (with a long time per visit) is :-

                  Buffering... Buffering... Buffering...

Re:Biggest productivity-killer around

[rm999]

is it a company full of 8th graders?

Re:Everytime Someone Goes to MySpace....

[ImaNihilist]

Fuck. I suck at life. *sigh* Only thing to do now is spend all day on MySpace.

Re:Everytime Someone Goes to MySpace....

[Drkdstryer]

The future if the internet grows bleek.

I think the present spelling standard of the internet is bleak enough as it is.

Re:Everytime Someone Goes to MySpace....

[ImaNihilist]

I know, I know, I suck. 'Nuff said.

Re:Cheap & Easy to Use ... but is it Classy?

[ThisNukes4u]

no.

Re:Biggest productivity-killer around

[HolyCrapSCOsux]

We run a keylogger every so often as a <insert corporatespeak term for "Catching Red Handed"> for employees that are doing everything OTHER THAN working. Here's a neat snippet. Keep in mind that this person HAS somehow managed to graduate from high school.

21/11/05 12:46:53 on computer ------- user ----
in application "C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE" and window "Myspace.com - Mozilla Firefox"
pressed: hey girly it was fun this weekend i had a blast messin with u guys we i hope to see u later okay well ttul niggaheyhey buddy what the hell u cant ever talk to me any more that makes me sad well happy bday and sorry that me and nick didnt go to ur party we had to help him mom with some hings but i cut his hair off i mean like his hair is only like an in. 1/2 long but i like it he looks so different though.. well happy bday again and have fun on thanks giving k well ttul nigga . -------NOT MUCH JUST CHILLIN AT WORK HAVING FUN WELL WHA U BEEN UP TO LATELY U STILL GO TOTA CO BELL ALL THE TIME... WELL TTUL ------WELL IM NOT SHORE WHEN IM DONG IT BUT AS SOON AS POSIBLE WHEN IM OUT OF SCHOOL BUT I WANT TO GO IN TO BISSINES SO I CAN START ON GETING NY OWN SALON AND WELL KNOW HOW TO RUN IT WITH OUT HAVEING PEOPLE JIP ME SO I KNOW WHAT IM DOING BUT ITS WHAT I WANT TO DO THAT WOULD BE HELLA COOL IF WE COLD DO SOME CLASSES TO GETHER THAT WOULD BE SWETTTTT WEL I TALK TO U LATER K IM GETIN OFF ARO...

Makes you want to cry a little doesn't it?

Re:Real?

[Gertlex]

In anticipation of this exact comment, I typed that exact line (well started to) into 'Find as you type'...

And seriously, who DOES?

Microsoft #2 ?!?!

[Namlak]

The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS [microsoft.com] page or despite it?

Re:How many emo kids does it take to screw in a li

[Anonymous Coward]

None. Emo kids don't understand screwing.

Re:Real?

[Lendrick]

Sure, Real is at number 9, but most of their traffic is to one specific page:

http://www.real.com/support/faqs/how_the_hell_do_i _uninstall_this_damn_thing.html [real.com]

Re:The Children of Myspace

[cgenman]

I'm so putting that in my myspace profile.

That's it.

[Jethro]

echo "0.0.0.0      www.myspace.com" >> /etc/hosts

'nuff said.

Re:Sorry...

[strider44]

I disagree. I don't see how you could code even something as bad as Myspace just by having sex with any sort of monkey, let alone retarded ones.

Hey it's holidays, I'm allowed to have fun.

*shakes head sadly*

[thewrathoffluffy]

I'm a CS student in college right now and I can sadly say I can vouch for how out of control the myFace/Spacebook craze has gotten... Another CS friend summed it up pretty well with this quote:

"I've almost quit telling people I'm interested in computers anymore, because I keep getting the same responce: 'Oh, so does that mean you're like good at facebook?'"

I think I died a little bit inside when he said that...

Re:Biggest productivity-killer around

[TheNarrator]

Your post was great but I see this kind of thing all the time in really badly written emails to customer service. I think Slashdot has spoiled you. Despite all the moaning and groaning the Slashdot audience is fairly well educated and can write tolerably. You haven't had to spend a lot of time with exceptionally stupid and/or very poorly educated people since high school no doubt (if you went to public school), but they're out there and there are lots and lots of them and Myspace caters to them. I'm actually really happy that the great uneducated masses are learning to type, get a thought across at some level or another and do basic internet stuff.

Re:Cheap & Easy to Use ... but is it Classy?

[Jeremi]

MySpace is an apparently successful implementation of the concept that "anyone can have a useful web site without much work."

Not to mention a prime example of "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it."

Thanks for nothing, Mr. Berners-Lee. :^P

How do you get an emo kid out of a tree?

[freeweed]

Cut the rope.

(joke is a bit older than the emo fad, so works equally well with their goth predecessors :)

Re:Biggest productivity-killer around

[happyemoticon]

Grammar and punctuation errors offend my sight. I can't look at something that's obviously wrong without wanting to correct it. I think I could end a friendship over somebody typing, "r u going 2 skool 2day?"

Back when I was in college I carried pens around with me for notetaking. This also enabled me to correct posters on campus, which I turned into kind of a hobbie. God, sometimes I wish I'd packed a red sharpie just for that purpose. The Health Advisor would print up all of these flyers every week ("Don't do uppers and downers at the same time!" "Use a condom, even if it's anal!"), and while I was taking a dump I'd methodically correct them, being sure to add comments on style and mark sentences in need of restructuring. It was insanely fun.

As for a contract, god, I can't even imagine.

OK PEEPZ LISTN UP U GOTTA IF U BEEN OF SOND MIND N BODY HAB3UZ CRPUZ IPO FACTO LOL OMG I JUST HIT MY HEAD OK IF YOU DON GIVE ME 4 $$ /WEEK 4 WATRN YO LAWN I GONNA SH1T ON IT ZOMG LOLZ !!!! cn i tuch ur boobz

Re:But

[caffeination]

What?! That's the sort of thing that you put in between <a href=""> and </a>

Re:How many emo kids does it take to screw in a li

[airherbe]

My lawn is so Emo,
it cuts itself.