"Forget the mall. Forget the movies. Forget school. Forget even AOL. If you're a teen in America today, the place to be is the social networking site MySpace, which has virtually exploded in the past few months. ... In only two years, MySpace has shot from zero to 47.3 million members, say founders Chris DeWolfe, 39, and Tom Anderson, 29. They launched MySpace in January 2004. In July Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million," reports USA Today.
It's now replacing the ritual of giving out phone numbers or even e-mail addresses.
"MySpace has gotten to the point where instead of 'What is your phone number?' it's like 'What is your MySpace profile?' " says [Michael Edwards, a high school senior from San Diego]. "Like every single person has one. It's like 'Oh, what's your MySpace page?' "
