WHEN MYSPACE went down for 12 hours last week, Hitwise discovered that traffic to Google and Facebook went up. According to Mashable, "Google’s impressions increased dramatically while Facebook experienced a noticeable boost in traffic. What’s more, the Dating and Adult categories saw the biggest rise in traffic over that weekend". So it seems that many on MySpace camp out there because it's an easy hunting ground as a dating site--pictures, link lists, circles of friends--with all the things you normally pay to get with online adult dating sites. This is one reason the Irish National Council for Technology in Education is a little concerned about MySpace in Irish schools.
Bill Tancer -- "MySpace Outage: The Post Mortem"
Pete Cashmore -- "MySpace Down, Google and Facebook Up"
