Random thoughts on random days

MySpace, The 27.4 Billion Pound Gorilla:

MySpace hasn’t overtaken Yahoo yet in terms of page views (see UBS Comscore Analysis PDF here), but they are a solid second and are ahead of giants like MSN-Microsoft, Time Warner (including AOL), eBay, Google and Facebook.

MySpace also has the sixth largest market share among search engines, even though they aren’t, actually, a search engine.

(Via TechCrunch.)

There’s something that is gnawing at me about the large numbers involving MySpace. I have 4 kids ages 12 to 22 who have all signed up for MySpace accounts but have never used them since. They wanted to see what all of the buzz was but quickly tired of the garish sites that generally populate MySpace. Which leads me to my question: of the 75 million accounts how many are really active? You could easily have the numbers they have and still not really have the volume of actual daily, weekly or even monthly users. For the most part kids do what their friends are doing for a short period of time and then move on. Except for IM which seems to still be the staple of communication among the younger crowd.

I wonder if there is some kind of stat available that tells you how many user accounts haven’t been touched in the last month. All the activity could be akin to rubberneckers at the scene of a 3 car pile up. Everyone slows down to take a look and then moves on.