They’re Still Talking About MySpace?
I wasn’t exactly one of the daring pioneers of Facebook, but I hesitantly climbed onboard in 2005, not even a year after it was first offered to college students across the U.S. and Canada.
Really, I thought the whole thing was a little silly and a waste of time, but like so many others since, I succumbed to peer pressure and the persistent nagging of my friends that July.
(After a month, I even put a picture up.)
So I was already comfortable with the sight by the time the quickly growing social network site decided to expand to high school kids in the fall, and then again when it decided to embarrass everybody under the age of thirty by going completely public.
In other words, it allowed parents to create and maintain their own personal pages!
Even as a secure and confident professional now, I still wince whenever my mother posts on my page, as I well know countless other teens and young people do in the same circumstances.
But when my mother joins an online group, you know it’s become a global phenomenon. (When my father joins, it will be the end of the world.) And she’s been on for about a year now. Or maybe it just feels that long.
(All jokes aside, my mother is great. I’m just not that fond of receiving motherly lectures online where all of my friends and coworkers can see. I’m sure understand)
There Is No Facebook Vs. MySpace. There’s Only Facebook.
Knowing how quickly Facebook has grown and seeing article detailing its new move or postulating about new moves it might make, at around a bi-weekly rate, you can imagine my surprise when I read that Facebook has only just recently caught up to MySpace in terms of user numbers.
Now I have a MySpace… technically. Though I’m not sure I even remember my username and password to get into it. That’s how long it’s been since I accessed it. And I know a lot of people who have their own accounts as well. But just because they have it doesn’t mean they use it.
That’s a very important distinction to understand.
So while MSN Money’s Catherine Holahan reports that “for the past year, News Corp.’s flagship Internet property has watched its fortunes steadily fade… [that] just two months ago, the site lost its title as the world’s largest social-networking Web site to rival Facebook… [and that] MySpace also experienced a painful loss of revenue in the most recent quarter, and analysts expect more bad news…” all I have to say is that this has been a long time coming.
As she goes on to point out (though everybody who has used MySpace could have testified for a while now), MySpace is annoying for various reasons, some of which the article delves into liberally. But we also can’t forget that MySpace never even tried to appeal to adults - instead catering to the Tila Tequilas of the world - and therefore severely limited its consumer base as opposed to… I don’t know… say Facebook?
On the other hand, despite complaints about the new format (And yes, I’m still sad that my favorite quotes are no longer displayed.), Facebook is overall fun and easy to use, with crazy little extras that allow you to transform your personal page into a pirate’s paradise.
Has MySpace even though of that?
I don’t know. And frankly, I don’t care to find out.
Friday, August 14, 2009 - by Jeannette Di Louie, Assistant Editor, Mt. Vernon Research
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