I have a boyfriend in his late 40’s. He won’t join Myspace as he feels the only guys his age that do so are pedophiles.

A little sarcasm mixed in with cynicism always brightens my day! Thanks, Bing!

Parents of teenagers join MySpace and Facebook in order to police their kids in order to protect them from the pedophiles mentioned by the previous poster. Of course, one might consider such policing behavior to be the equivalent of stalking, but that’s another discussion entirely.
As for me, the likely results of targeting would include ads for:
wrinkle creams that make absurd claims and trips to remote places that have absolutely no cell phone reception.

Your conviction regarding age should include one exception: MySpace started as a place for musicians and bands to promote themselves and share music. So I’d say it’s legit for them to still have pages.

Then again, maybe you shouldn’t listen to me. I’m part of the MySpace demographic, but I don’t use it. (This paradoxically makes me a loser among my own people: I don’t post all my identifying information short of SSN, pictures of myself, and a list of who my “friends” are on a large public internet database, nor do I spend any of my day trawling same — so I’m a loser… ?)

I think those people who feel anyone over 30 who’s on MySpace has something wrong with them, are similar to people in their 60’s and 70’s who feel a computer is unnecessary and can’t even spell Internet let alone know how to use it.
In other words, just because you’re not embracing technology and the future the way others are, don’t knock it.

If a complete stranger (and even some so-called friends) rang my phone and wanted to chat about my personal life and solicit personal information, I would hang up in less than a nanosecond. Yet, some people will get online and “talk” with complete strangers disclosing lots of personal information in the process. The modern day equivalent of getting on a party line phone and telling everyone with the ability to listen things you would probably rather not say and not have them know.

What is the deal with wanting to sit at a computer to communicate with others (i.e., myspace). I think it all stems from too many Startrek reruns.

Although, if you think about it, the Stratrek crew did meet some pretty interesting characters through the ‘big screen’ of their ship’s communications center.
Kind of like myspace, I guess.

Bing,

I disagree with you. Social Sites like Myspace are web 2.0 and if you expect to reach new customers you have to be there or be L7.

I have two accounts but I am in the demographic range. One to make some people happy but it doesn’t have names or pictures of me. The other is used as a marketing tool for my online business.

Web 2.0 is just another name for the internet anno 1998. Congratulations. People like, you know, communicate with eachother. Back then it was called usenet, today it’s called myspace, what’s next? web 3.0 as in an online game with graphics and stuff? Amazing what they can do…

I like file sharing more than time sharing on the internet

The only social networking site I really like is last.fm, a sn site that categorizes your music taste pretty well by scanning ID3 tags thru a winamp plugin (if you want it to) while you listen to music online or offline (has cache) and then recommends similar music that you probably would not stumble upon easily. Plus it has a good calender guide for local gigs.