Myspace to delete 200,000 profiles

Myspace is the fast growing community based website hugely popular with teens and young Americans.  Myspace has just removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users.  Could Myspace be making a mistake?

I don’t think so, because I use Myspace and have noticed there are many bogus profiles.  Spammers seem to infiltrate every internet medium.  They create profiles and then try and drive traffic out of the Myspace site.  There is also a huge problem with adults soliciting sex from minors which they met on the site.

Interesting facts about News Corp’s acquisition of Myspace

News Corp. paid $580 million for Myspace, some people figured that Rupert Murdoch’s fascination with web businesses had once again led him to overpay for a web-media property. Half a billion dollars was a whole lot of cash for an asset that a year earlier had been valued at $44 million.

Myspace has become the second-most popular site on the Internet — behind Yahoo!, but ahead of MSN AOL and Google. It has 66 million members, and about 250,000 new ones sign up each day. That’s a mind-boggling growth trajectory for an Internet site that was launched less than three years ago.