Social networking websites are the future of Internet advertising. The good news is that opportunities for direct targeted ads are becoming a reality. Trying to target 19-25 year old college women who are getting married? Well, you can with Facebook and Myspace. Unfortunately, with this added power, comes much more complexity.

MySpace had more traffic in 2007 than Google.

Facebook has literally already reached Google traffic levels.

Youtube now gets double the amount of traffic as Google

These sites are growing at a ridiculous pace, Facebook has over 1 million users sign up per week!

In an average month

30% Internet users visit MySpace.

35% visit Facebook.

35% visit Youtube.

It's not all just kids talking about what to wear out tonight

Over 50% of all MySpace users are over 35.

Facebook even has 100,000 users over 64 years old.