I felt for a while that with maturity MySpace would evolve.  The spam problem is getting out of control, providing further evidence that old style marketing doesn’t work online.

Unique visitors to MySpace and Facebook dropped from August to September. WSJ technology reporter Vauhini Vara offers a look at what’s causing some users to bail out in a desk-side chat with Stacey Delo of Dow Jones Online.

Source: WSJ

It seems that MySpace user base is dropping, and while attributed to seasonality, there is acknowledgement that there is something going on, that Fox characterise as “maturity”.