You ready to go social?

Its official, in all web traffic one in twenty of all people go to social networking sites. This is a huge increase over the past months. Social networking has become an all time fad on the online scene, with companies growing in traffic in astronomical proportions. Look at you tube, from where they were before they jumped up an astounding two hundred and forty some percent. Can you believe that? Two hundred and forty percent. Out of all the domains in the united states, MySpace is listed in rank twenty three. Out of all of those people who head to these websites, most of them are heading to MySpace. An astounding 82 percent of people who are heading to social networking sites are heading to MySpace. However there are some other honorable mentions. Look at places such as bolt or orkut, they are still making big strides in getting traffic to their social networking sites.

Now, let’s look at a few other different things. Let’s look at the affect that things like MySpace are having on other companies. The advertising revenue MySpace is getting is insane, but look at all the traffic they drive out to advertisers websites. 2.4 visits to the shopping and home category come from my space. That’s up eighty three percent. A lot of businesses are making money by having advertisements placed on MySpace. And it’s only going to get better, they have added new multimedia functions which are sure and I mean sure to drive more traffic to the site.

Now, you think MySpace is the only social site that is making these huge strides? Your wrong. In the photo and video world companies are doing the same if not better. Let’s look at you tube, you tube is visits were up two hundred and forty nine percent. TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE PERCENT! Can you imagine the amazing possibilities of making money via YouTube if you advertised there? Photobucket and flickr are also doing quite well in bringing more and more traffic to their sites.

It’s obvious that not just the teen generation but everyone is getting into the social networking craze. And with more and more sites popping up on a daily basis this is sure to get bigger and bigger. Now let’s examine why these sites are so big. I’m going to talk about one in particular. MySpace, I think that it’s the biggest and best in the business. So let’s talk about them. The first thing you may notice on MySpace is the forums, forums are always fun to me. To be able to meet and discuss things with people without having to sit down and meet them is an awesome thing indeed. Next let look at the photo and video capabilities of MySpace, they are bringing real heat and competition to sites such as YouTube by offering video sharing, and competition to Photobucket and flickr by enabling photo gallery sharing. We havent even discussed the groups, blogging and chatting features of this site. It’s clear MySpace is here to stay and will be the front man in the future.

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