According to ComScore, Facebook had 87.7 million unique visitors in the month of July, increasing their visitor count by about 10.7 million from the month of June whereas MySpace’s unique visitor count went down by 168k totalling 68.3 million, and Twitter only went up by 1.1 million unique visitors, totalling 21.2 million in the month of July.  That’s a mouth full but it shows the progress of Facebook.  Twitter is growing like a weed, just not compared to Facebook’s monopoly on the Social Networking sites.

I see my friends making status comments saying they’re not even sure why people still use MySpace.  However, I see benefits of both.  MySpace offers customization, and after all, it was the first social networking site to really go big.  Back before that, we were stuck with sites like Friendster and FaceTheJury.  To find old school buddies, we had to sign up at Classmates.com and pay their outrageous fees on a monthly basis.  I guess that’s why I have a bit of a loyalty to MySpace.  I also use it to keep in touch with acquaintances that I might want to network with at a later time.  Facebook seems so much more personal, but I love the fact that I don’t have to show every person every side of me.  Now, my aunts can add me on Facebook without me being worried they’ll lose all respect for me when they realize some of the things that come out of my mouth, or in this case, fingertips would make a sailor blush.  All I have to do is block them from status comments!  This also works with the people who like to leave inappropriate comments in my status messages as well.  It’s a win/win for me.

As for Twitter, I’m still trying to get the hang of updating it.  I like to use it for when I’m out and I take a picture of something with my iPhone.  I am using it for blog updates too.  It’s a great little resource but it will never trump the likes of Facebook and MySpace no matter how hard it tries.  It does well for what it is, but if it changed its entire concept of micro-blogging, it just wouldn’t be Twitter.

So, it’s not surprising to me that Facebook is doing so much better than the rest.  Now, if I could just stop getting stupid app requests that I have to keep blocking, we’d all be good.