International Myspace Audience Not Ready
Posted in Technology by Sane on November 17th, 2006 Myspace.com took the world by storm in the past few years and they have since grown to one of the largest online social networking sites in the world. They have managed to take the pain and sting out of creating a website that draws visitors by way of content because they allowed their users to build the site for them. Instead of procuring content and RSS feeds from around the globe they simply turned loose the many visitors and from there on out there is nothing but the crying. The original inventors sold the site for over five hundred million dollars, and one can assume that they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Most understand that the site was built with the young person in mind. Everything that was in place happened because the young generation, the notable Web 2.0 users, wanted some thing more interactive and fun for their internet time and for that Myspace.com came into being. Recently there has been a surge of older people who are taking the time to find out about the site and then you also have the marketers. It did not take long for internet marketers to figure out that having an audience that was over one hundred million strong was to their benefit.
Now comes the hard part for the website. They want to attract an international user base but the people from overseas are not buying in. Call it cultural diversity, but the people that they are now targeting and telling them to go get stuffed. Why? Simple, they do not like the site design or the overall flash of the whole thing. In simple terms, the concept of Myspace.com may be appealing, but the real life thing is not what they want.
So what’s next? One never knows. Myspace.com is being tight-lipped about any plans that they may have. The only thing that is for sure is the fact that they want the people from all over the world and now they must figure out a way to make it happen.
No matter which way they go they should do it fast. In recent polls, Myspace.com is slipping through the fingers and the young people, the actual target audience for the site, is starting to lose interest. This is not good news as the teens and so on that abound the site and make up the largest part of their user database are the only thing keeping them in business.
