You are worth $12.53

Many of you blog on MySpace and I have news for you - You have just been sold. A large media company just bought MySpace for $580 million. That's $12.53 per user.

MySpace generates $20 million in ad revenue per year and thanks to your use of the site it is growing steadily. So steadily that the site could be sold for nearly half a billion dollars.

You might feel good about helping Big Biz get rich but I'm sure you won't get a thank you card with a couple of grand in it for your devotion to your blog. In fact, I think all you'll get is more advertising on the site and new ways to tempt you to click through. Like I said in blogs gone by, this is a Capitalistic country and the whole system runs on captial.

I don't think many of us consider the fact that when we congregate in places like MySpace we become valuable to the likes of Pepsi and General Motors. Today you're only worth $12.53 but don't be discouraged. In the future I'm sure your value will increase and you will be worth much more. You'll never see any of it, mind you, it's all for Mr. Big Biz.

Here's to Capitalism.
Pa