There is a recent post in GigaOM,
< Google and MySpace: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda!! >
http://gigaom.com/2006/06/27/google-and-myspace-woulda-coulda-shoulda/

It is true that Myspace is attracting lots of traffic and has one of the largest user base on the Internet, but again it will gain velocity and attention until those teenagers grow up and another wave of them finds the next hype. Myspace popularity in 2010 is what Geocities' is today.

Remember Yahoo bought Geocities for $3.57 billion!! That's greater than the GDP of the 60 countires in the world :-p

Yahoo to Geocities is what Google should NOT be to MySpace!

Google should built their own social network from scratch (not orkut). People should be able to build real relations of business, friendship, or/and interest. I am thinking Facebook or LinkedIn but in the Google way ...

Funny ;) -> http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn%2C+myspace&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

I thought MySPace was owned by Rupert Murdoch. I don't think Google would be able to get their hands on it.

dpneal
before Murdochs company bought mySpace, google had the chance to buy it for half of the price.

I'm not sure if teenagers will always switch. Think of MTV, which is around since the 80s, and it attracts new generations too every time. The only thing MySpace needs to do is stay on top of the game and be fashionable, but as opposed to MTV it's mostly user-driven... so yeah, there's a risk there that users in 15 years will not like to enter the same social network their parents are still in too :)

MySpace is already over the hill imho. Too many scared parents, too cluttered an interface, WAY too much spam. I started using facebook about a year ago and I haven't looked back.