Jeff Woelker : Chicago SEO, SEM, and Online Marketing Consultant

Congrats MySpace! You have ousted Yahoo as the #1 site on the internet! Huzzahs and handshakes all arou–

Not so fast MySpace! Don’t think because you have the biggest site on the intarweb that you can just run out and buy that shiny new gold lamborghini with bald eagle interior. Oh no my friend. The end is nigh, you just don’t know it yet.

But Jeff, everyone who’s anyone has a MySpace page, how can MySpace go under? Never! Can’t happen! The end of the internet!

Not likely. MySpace will probably not go under with proper management, technology upgrades, a better interface for users to post and format their thoughts. It can last a good long while (at least until the next MySpace or Web 3.0)

The main reason that MySpace can only go down from here is your friends are boring. Let’s think for a minute: you create a MySpace page, you go crazy and friend everyone and their brother. Oh, I found my high school friends - let’s add all of them. Oh, I found a few of my college buddies - let’s add all of them and their friends. Awesome - I found that random guy I saw on the street. Ok, I have this page set up. Now…GO MySpace - GO! … Why isn’t anything happening?

I understand some people sit on MySpace all day and read about their friends and their friends friends and their…well you get the point, but MySpace in general is for two purposes:

1. Bands to connect with artists - which I think is fantastic and I love MySpace for.
2. People without a life.

Prove my wrong about #2 in the comments. I dare you.