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A Worldwide Phenomenon! Teenagers are Pimping...Their MySpace Pages, That Is
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The experts at SpaceGravy.com, the Internet's premier destination for MySpace Layouts, MySpace Codes, and Backgrounds for MySpace, today said there's a worldwide phenomenon taking place at MySpace.com. The phenomenon is known as "Pimping," and while many people associate the word "pimping" with something negative, in this case, it's actually very good.
"When a MySpace user says 'I pimped my MySpace page,' what they're really saying is that they've decorated their page with cool layouts, backgrounds, graphics and pictures," said Jennifer Lange, president and CEO of SpaceGravy.com. "MySpace.com is all about expressing yourself and making friends, and when you decorate your page with customized MySpace layouts, backgrounds and graphics, what you're doing is communicating -- via images -- what your interests are, what you like to do, and who you are as a person."
According to Lange, MySpace Pimping is fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon, as users across the globe decorate their MySpace profiles in ever- increasing numbers.
"In the last two months alone, from November to December, traffic to SpaceGravy grew 291%," said Lange, "and with our Google Analytics tool, we can see the regions from where our visitors are coming. We've had visitors from as far away as Australia, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Hawaii, Spain, Brazil and Argentina. We've even had visitors from Yigo, Guam. The worldwide popularity of MySpace is truly mind boggling."
Mind boggling, indeed. According to recent news reports, MySpace got even more popular in November, beating Yahoo in Web traffic for the first time ever, according to comScore Media Metrix.
News Corp.'s MySpace recorded 38.7 billion U.S. page views in November 2006, compared with 38.1 billion for Yahoo Inc. MySpace's growth was 2 percent over October and triple the 12.5 billion recorded in November 2005. Lange says that sites such as SpaceGravy.com -- sites that provide users with MySpace Layouts, MySpace Backgrounds and MySpace codes that help people decorate their pages -- are growing in popularity, right along with MySpace itself.
"A Google search for MySpace Layouts, for example, nets popular MySpace decorating sites such as skize.com, bigoo.ws and freeweblayouts.net," says Lange. "These sites are just the beginning in a long list of websites that help people decorate their MySpace profiles - 5.7 million, to be exact, in one Google search alone." Lange says that even though there are plenty of MySpace decorating sites to choose from, a great majority are extremely difficult to use.
"Our market research showed an enormous amount of sites that pushed annoying pop-up ads in their visitors' faces, as well as sites that specialized in only one element, such as MySpace Music Videos, for example. What's more, we found a ton of websites that had the most vulgar designs imaginable. It was extremely difficult for our research team to find decent MySpace Pimping Sites."
Lange says her company's market research was the foundation upon which SpaceGravy.com was built.
"SpaceGravy features an easy-to-use interface, tasteful designs spearheaded by one of the leading graphic artists in the business, zero pop-up ads, and most importantly, detailed instructions to help new MySpace users learn how to pimp their pages like experienced MySpace users do. When you compare our site across the competition, you'll immediately see the difference."
Lange says SpaceGravy.com also features an in-depth safety section, entitled Gravy Safety, which helps parents, teenagers and young adults protect themselves from Internet predators and online scammers.
About SpaceGravy:
SpaceGravy.com is the Internet's premier destination for MySpace layouts, MySpace backgrounds, MySpace code, glitter graphics, glitter text, online now icons, contact tables, holiday backgrounds and artistic elements to help people create unique MySpace profiles. In addition to all types of design elements, SpaceGravy offers users easy-to-follow download instructions and simple tutorials for the technically challenged. The website also offers important safety tips when it comes to creating profiles at MySpace.com and similar social sites, including tips to help parents of underage kids protect themselves against Internet predators, while helping older teens and adults make better, more informed personal choices when it comes to the information they provide online.
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