Rockers & Stalkers
Comscore released its stats on Social Networking demographics which is on the following table. What surprised me most about all of these is the high % of 35-54 year olds in each user base (33-40%). MySpace was the biggest outlier on this front with almost 41% of its visitors coming from the older crowd. Now, this is not a breakdown of members (could not find anything from a cursory web review) so, the stalkers & pedophiles could be driving this. However, I have heard of several examples of older men & women (in their aged 40's) throwing up profiles for dating on MySpace in addition (or instead of) Match, e-Harmony, etc. Xanga is much stronger in the younger 12-18 bracket and Facebook is obviously strong in college age 18-24.
Percent (%) Composition of Unique Visitors
Total
Internet MySpace Facebook Friendster Xanga
-------- ----------- ------------ -------------- ---------
Unique Visitors
(000) 173,407 55,778 14,782 1,043 8,066
Total Audience 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Persons: 12-17 9.6 11.9 14.0 10.6 20.3
Persons: 18-24 11.3 18.1 34.0 15.6 15.5
Persons: 25-34 14.5 16.7 8.6 28.2 11.0
Persons: 35-54 38.5 40.6 33.5 34.5 35.6
Persons: 55+ 18.0 11.0 7.6 8.1 7.3
More interesting is that MySpace is starting to skew older with a shift from 12-24 to more 25-54 year olds. Must be a lot of old rockers and stalkers...

