"his myspace"? "my myspace"?


I think I've learned a new word this morning. In the "Zits"
comic strip, one of the teenagers is saying "He posted it on
his myspace".

It appeared that "myspace" might be being used as a synonym
of "Web site". I wondered how commonly it's used, so I
Googled. I now know there's a Web site called
"myspace.com", which is intended to be a hangout for
teenagers to talk about whatever teenagers like to talk
about, but has become also a hunting ground for sexual
predators. There's a fairly lengthy discussion of the site
and its problems at http://tinyurl.com/rqwbe *.

But my question is, which came first, the use of "myspace"
as a synonym of "Web site", or the Web site myspace.com? I
can imagine either one growing out of the other.

I'm still wondering how prevalent are phrases like "his
myspace", "my myspace", "her myspace", and "their myspace".
Google isn't much help with that wonderment, because
Googling on, for example, "my myspace" gets hits like "my
Myspace page", "my Myspace site", and other phrases that
aren't on target.

Comments?

*
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.dcom.telecom/msg/10717e79cfd9cbe6?dmode=source&hl=en
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