In case you haven’t heard of it, MySpace is the social networking site to beat. It is the site that Rupert Murdoch’s company bought for US$500 million. That’s EIGHT zeros. Friendster, what’s that? ;)

Anyway, I’ve been noticing a lot of news about MySpace lately and for those of you who don’t surf as much as I do, here’s a rundown (thank me later!):

  1. Amidst rumours and reports of sexual predators creating accounts for the sole purpose of hooking up with minors, MySpace announced:

    … that it has hired a Microsoft Corp. executive to oversee safety, education, privacy and law enforcement affairs, effective May 1.

  2. An interesting story of how police in the US cracked a sexual assault case of a girl at a party, by combing through her list of friends. And there’s a different case but a chillingly similar story.
  3. A group of 5 teenagers in the US was arrested after revealing their plot of a school shooting rampage on their MySpace profiles. Story here. Darwinism at work here boys.
  4. This could happened on any kind of online forum but since we are talking about MySpace: a soldier posts a suicide note on his profile and then kills himself. Story here.
  5. There’s a lot of talk about how MySpace’s traffic is growing at a phenomenal rate. But according to ValleyWag, :

    Pardon? 10 cents for a thousand pageviews? A flood of useless clicks every time you visit — log on, log on again, refresh so it works, click twice to enlarge, click three times to rearrange friends? Faking traffic to seem bigger than Google? NEVER YOU MIND THAT.

  6. And I shall leave you with a bemusing afterthought: apparently Tom Anderson, the founder and uber rich CEO of MySpace has a thing for Asian girls. More here.

If you still want more MySpace stories, here’s a search on MSNBC and a search on C|Net.

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