Thanks for your response. This is my problem. You’ve attributed “surprise” to me, when the word does not appear anywhere in my post. Nor is there to the best of my searching is there anywhere I said I was “surprised”. Because I wasn’t “surprised”. Yes, I knew about blogs on MySpace, I knew it was going gangbusters, I have had a non-active blog on MySpace for ages. I found the information as presented “striking”. The real point of the post was actually in the title, where I wondered whether, for Gen Y, “blogging”=”MySpace”. Which would mean that a lot of what blogging “pros” talk about in terms of blogging platforms, for instance, might soon or at least for some demographics, be obsolete, if it isn’t already. So in fact I was closer to your observations than you were prepared to see or acknowledge. That’s the “straw man” point – you wanted to make a statement and you took words I never wrote to make it. I am willing to be criticised, but preferably for what I say or think, not for what you thought I said or thunk. But it’s been a good lesson for me, and I thank you – that as my friend Dave Taylor says, bloggers need to develop a thick skin.

As for my understanding of relevant stats is concerned, I can tell you that at least 3,000 Australian male profiles age 18 only have joined MySpace since February 1, 2007 (39 days). That means that 76 people from Australia age 18 or pretending to be age 18 have joined MySpace every day. That’s 18 year old males only. What about females, seventeen year olds, sixteen year olds, etc?

No intention of using you as a straw man. As with many bloggers, I read many blogs and they occasionally inspire posts on CultureFeast. I still find your surprise astonishing. I would expect a blogger who writes about business and blogging to be aware of MySpace as a homepage, starter page, entire Internet system, and definitely blog. Because of it’s one-stop-shop functionality, it’s not surprise at all that lesser savvy people who join at a friend’s recommendation might only associate blogging with MySpace. Not to mention that many people only blog on MySpace (myself included, once upon a time) simply because they can guarantee that their friends and contacts will read their blogs due to MySpace’s nifty blog subscription options.

Please don’t take my criticism too personally. As a copywriter/search marketer/blogger, I consider some things to be common knowledge because I have to stay up on these things. If your blog hits an entirely separate and different audience, I’d be very surprised, but not at all bothered. Maybe you should poll your readers to see who has a MySpace account and who blogs on it. I’d be interested to know what your readers do.