Shifting Demographics of MySpace

When I first saw someone using MySpace I thought it was just kids stuff. All the colorful graphics and pictures. I figured it wasn't for anyone my age. Even my little niece was using it and she's in elementary school. I don't know if she was faking her age or what to register, but I didn't think anything of it. Although I did consider it to be pretty and the users are very creative when building their sites. I've seen some beautiful ones. One day a student at my school was on the computer and another student said to him, "Man, are you still using MySpace? That's old. People are using Facebook now." So it doesn't surprise me that the demographics are changing on MySpace. The young people discovered it and are now moving on. They sort of paved the way for older people. Usually in life it's the other way around. The older people pave the way and the young people follow. Between August '05 and '06 there was a decline of users between the ages of 12-24. During this same time, ages 25 to 55+ increased dramatically. At that rate, in '08, I suspect there's been a continuation of this trend.