Playboy.com set off a round of controversy Monday as it announced that it will tap into the ether for a “Girls of MySpace” photo spread. Playboy.com has embedded itself on MySpace, with its own page that promotes the search for women to pose.
MySpace.com, the social networking website of choice for the many in the adult entertainment industry, will be expanding its presence into the U.K., News Corp and subsidiary Fox Interactive Media announced Tuesday.
Targeting popular social networking forum MySpace.com, a spammer who sent more than 9 million unsolicited advertisements to the site’s users was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
When Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp purchased L.A.-based InterMix Media, Inc. last month, it acquired MySpace.com, a social networking site with 22 million members. The $580 million sale has some users concerned about the possibility of privacy breaches and fees.
Social networking site MySpace.com, which many in the adult industry use in lieu of other free web presences such as Friendster and Yahoo Groups, is attracting millions of new users each month while deciding its financial future.
