Even though social networking seems to be falling out of fashion a little among everyone I know, both Bebo and Facebook achieved a record number of UK users last month, according to stats from ComScore, so some people must still be organising their lives and rediscovering old friends through the social networking websites.
Facebook had 14.3 million unique users in April, up 7.2% from March and a massive 262.4% year on year. Bebo, which is still a favourite among teenage social networkers, scored 12.03 million unique users, 40% growth year on year.
The survey won't make fun reading for MySpace, who saw a decline in the number of users, 1.4% down month on month, 14.3% down year on year, which is presumably no surprise, though it is worth noting once again that in the music domain it is still generally their MySpaces that artists regularly update, and where fans first go to check out new music, so all is not lost for the News Corp owned networking site. Though it wouldn't surprise me if they eventually move away from all that conventional social networking nonsense and concentrate on being the place fans and artists network.