This morning’s Observer column…

Facebook is growing so rapidly that Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of MySpace, is concerned. MySpace, you see, is really a site for young persons – which is why its average personal page has the visual and aesthetic appeal of a teenager’s bedroom floor. But most teenagers eventually grow up, and presumably learn how to tidy their bedrooms, so the $1.6bn question is: where will they go when they tire of MySpace? The disturbing thought that has occurred to Murdoch is that they might go to Facebook…