Michael Wolff: MySpace Users Are Doomed, Poor

by John Jorgensen on December 2, 2008

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  • Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, released this morning, sat down with BusinessWeek’s Jon FIne and provided a not so glamorous take on MySpace.
  • On MySpace’s $25 billion+ valuation: “It doesn’t make any difference. That’s gonna go down. What they are looking at is the distinct possibility that it can go down to nothing.”
  • On MySpace users being tied to the site’s community: “That’s exactly what they said about AOL. Your email was there, because your friends were there. I mean, AOL operated actually as the community of its day… What they saw at the time was that [users] were absolutely wedded to AOL. That was Time Warner’s bet on that.”
  • On MySpace users: “If you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.”

Do you agree with Michael’s assessment of MySpace?

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