MySpace moves into the mobile internet

The social networking site MySpace has this week announced it’s launching a mobile web service. I looked in up, and according to Wikipedia, MySpace is the 6th most popular website in the world.

As an incentive to use it, the mobile MySpace will give users a significant amount of free content and tools that have only been available to paying subscribers up to now. Users will, for free, be able to send and receive MySpace messages and requests from friends. They can comment on profiles and images, put up bulletins, update blogs, and look for friends.

The owners of MySpace, Fox Interactive Media, expect above 80 million visitors a month in the US market alone. They want users to be able to access their profiles on-the-go and are predicting that accessing the Internet from mobile phones will soon be done as easily and frequently as we all currently makes phone calls and text.

I can’t disagree with that. It seems to me that a service like this from MySpace is going to exert a huge push towards making the mobile internet something we’ll all use every day.