my space

Visits to MySpace accounted for nearly 12% of all time spent online by US Internet users in December 2006, according to Compete Inc. The firm's December 2006 Internet traffic data put US Internet user time spent at MySpace over other sites including eBay, Google, AOL and YouTube. Yahoo! came in second, accounting for 8.5% of time spent online by US Internet users.The amount of time spent at MySpace suggests that people are leaving the site open during the day to see when new instant messages or e-mails arrive from friends.MySpace.com is the most popular social networking site on the Internet with more than 140 million members worldwide. It's free, easy to use and everybody is invited to join. It seems like fun. That's why so many teenagers post their profile on the Web. Thousands of pictures of teenagers, their names and addresses, where they go to school, their personal interests laid out openly for everyone to see. Anyone, including predators, can use the profiles like an online color catalog.