I realise these figures reflect surveys and marketing from US culture, but the trends are interesting – more youth / young adults are moving away from Myspace and into newer social networking spaces like Facebook.
Funnily enough, I just saw a video of Henry Jenkins who explained that as new young people find social spaces they will avoid the Myspace crowds because they are inhabited by their older brothers and sisters and are “oh so 20 minutes ago”. Here’s the clip, where he also discusses youtube:
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