For a while now we’ve all noticed all the spam that comes from having a MySpace profile, for example, the thousands of fake users requesting to be added to your friends list in order to monetize from traffic, or the real MySpace users advertising bands, clubs, and a number of other things. So when is enough, enough? Well, that day may have finally arrived according to a recent article on The Wall Street Journal.

The article, named “MySpace, ByeSpace?“, gives information about the many effects on MySpace and Facebook’s traffic and the spam that users are having to deal with.

“Both MySpace and Facebook lost visitors in September, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, a Web-tracking service. The number of unique U.S. visitors at MySpace fell 4% to 47.2 million from 49.2 million in August, and the number of visitors to Facebook fell 12% to 7.8 million from 8.9 million.”

“Neither MySpace nor Facebook will disclose the number of people who have deleted their pages, but a MySpace spokeswoman offers that there has been “absolutely no increase in the rate of deletions.”

In my opinion, users are acknowledging that large corporate social-network websites like these, are prime for lucrative spam when smaller sites are less likely to be targets.

Typically enough, these companies are not getting the point on all of this and are focused more on monetizing (making money), then actually providing a user-friendly experience to help out their user community enjoy themselves on the sites. If they don’t start making some changes, then this could possibly lead to the fall of their social-network empires.