Charge for MySpace?

Aren't the majority of MySpace users in their teens, and therefore have little income to be spending on a social networking site when they could use Facebook for free?

Re: Charge for MySpace?

That's precisely the point, that it is not a viable business plan. Facebook will encounter the same reality, as soon as its popularity reaches critical mass and its expenses fly higher than the minuscule income from advertisers.

-dZ.

Charging for access on the internet.

Yeah, that'll work. Assuming those sites are hawking porn that's somehow perceived as better than what's available for free. Otherwise, I suspect charging for content will just drive the masses elsewhere even faster. The killer app, after all, seems to have turned out to be "stuff for free," much to the corporations' annoyance...

"Myspace is in your contracting network"

It seems to me that Web2.0's main achievement has been to drastically condense the time it takes to go from Next Big Thing to Short-term Nostalgia TV Show Fodder

@zerofool2005

exactly what i was going to say

i think the reality is that the main reason why it's not making money is because they are trying to run some large company with thousands of staff in dozens of offices around the world, to do what? fill in paperwork required to set up and run offices??

it's a bloddy website! you have your hosting costs, then you need a handful of staff at most to handle maintenance/upgrades, PR and marketing

you certainly can make money from free websites and ad revenue, but not if you think the goal of a company is to spend money hiring more staff and then spending even more money setting up offices all over the world for them to work in!