How Long Before MySpace, Facebook, and Youtube Users Find a New Drug?

Although MySpace has been around for a few years now, widespread acceptance or rejection of this form of internet socializing has spread as surely as any fad which has ever gripped the world. If you haven't had any experience with MySpace, and the bad publicity which you regularly hear on television sways your opinion, than chances are that you haven't heard much about the other two big internet sites now, Youtube and Facebook. Youtube is a video sharing site which gets its fair share of posts which are viewed and reviewed by people around the world. Chances are you've heard of it, but you might not have seen it yet.

Another up and coming internet property at the moment is Facebook. Unlike MySpace, which can regularly delve a little too deeply into adult content: (read: all the adult sites that set up accounts for their stars to draw traffic onto their sites.) Facebook is more sharply centered on high school and early college age kids, and features a not less mature site, but one with considerably less blatant sex appeal. It is unfortunate that online dating has degraded into what it is now, less of a playful intimacy shared between two people who would not have otherwise met, than a commercialized attempt to bring sex into places where it isn't necessary or is unwelcome. MySpace has undergone scrutiny recently because of its allowance of some sexually themed material, and though it does bar images of sex from its site, no one can deny that a people search of the site for women seeking men pulls up far more hits for women saying "click here for my naughty sex pics" than lonely divorcees looking for someone real to pay attention to them rather than a credit card number.

The question is, how long will it be until the current users of these sites find something new and better? The tech boom taught us all that the popularity of these sites can be grossly exaggerated. Youtube was the first big site to recently catch national attention, but it certainly won't be the last.