Articles About MySpace Now Outnumbering Membership

"Cool," says emo kid and noted area scenester Keiran Dougal as he notes that the vast MySpace network has upwards of 122,000,000 members. His understatement is not to be taken as a sign of apathy, but rather an innate knowledge of the economies of numbers connected with media uproar. After all, the mainstream media has just published its 122,003,2483rd article concerning MySpace.

MySpace, a popular social network specializing in music sharing, blogs and getting written up for one reason or another, was founded by two guys who are on the cover of three financial magazines you subscribe to. MySpace is popular with users for its fun comments section and interchangable styles, and even more popular with the media for the ease of filling a few pages without doing very much research.

"We hired four interns from Northwestern last summer who did nothing but come up with different ways to say that MySpace is an Internet social networking site," said Ira Q. Macready, recently appointed MySpace editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. "I can copy-paste a basic rundown of what MySpace is as if we haven't already written twenty articles this week, and bam, there's a morning's work done in an hour."

This, Macready added, gave him more time to surf MySpace at work, where he has recently friended one of his college roommates.

Stan Kolendy, a Boston-area television news segment producer, expressed his enthusiasm for MySpace. "We don't get clips of waterskiing squirrels the way we used to, and this isn't the sort of area where people get shot, so it's nice to always be able to run a story about MySpace," he said. "Is your husband spending too much time talking to women on MySpace? Is MySpace dangerous for children? Things like that."

On Kolendy's desk was a newspaper with an article about a young woman robbed by a lover she met on MySpace. It was circled in red marker, with several arrows further emphasizing it.

Investing columnist Marcia Thorne, or 'Mashababe' as she calls herself on MySpace, was quick to share with us for her enthusiasm for discussing the MySpace business model or the ever-so-interesting fact that Rupert Murdoch owned the company. "its like totally the best thing 2 write about becuz its new... i need 2 finish an article about how myspace at work kills productivity lol, but whateva. u wanna cyber," ran her conclusion.

But one person we talked to felt he had not received sufficient coverage of the Internet phenomenon, deeming himself unaware of one's ability to search for friends, write blogs and maintain a Top 8. "Maybe I just don't follow the right news," commented hermit Thrag Klung'do, before retreating to the hole in the ground where he has spent the past six years.