MySpace was on the ''top of the game'' being the most used web site by people for interacting purposes, but one day on February, 2004 a new web site was created named Facebook this site was created by a College student named Mark Zuckerberg he created the website at first so that College and University students could interact with each other. The beginning of Facebook was not that good, but with some time it would start becoming a more visited site, not only College students but any person started opening Facebook accounts; After, Businesses and Artists' started jumping into Facebook. By then everyone was using this web site more and more, people started forgetting MySpace even closing accounts on MySpace because everyone was using Facebook more regularly. By 2009 a web traffic analysis web site Compete.com ranked Facebook as the most site used for social networking by worldwide monthly active users.
Other social networking web sites have been created since then, but none have been able to top Facebook. Now what happened to MySpace?... They have dropped in the last years and now it does not look good for them on a Business stand point, they are on sale. Most reports say MySpace will be sold to the owners of Facebook so that they can be saved and linked in every way, that just shows the supremacy and the decay; on one end Facebook is the most successful networking site and on the other end MySpace keeps on getting less and less traffic.Will My Space be saved?...
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www.compete.com
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ReplyDeleteI do not believe that myspace needs to be saved by anyone, or sold off to the highest bidder. I do think it's possible for them to re-attract the interest of users possible by providing them with something unique compared to facebook. Hopefully, before facebook beats them to it. From what I have seen, facebook and myspace are unfairly categorized together as social networking sites [of the same caliber] mostly because myspace has failed to keep up with the trends in technology. When facebook came on the scene, the wonderful features and functionalities it provided to users pushed myspace aside. Recently, myspace has redesigned their site to be more of a place where users can find information on a variety of things like music, videos, events, etc... This explains why they have facebook beat in connections from search engines. Now, they started to focus more on the music industry, which was a brilliant move, but instead of competing with facebook I would have love to see them try and compete with or supply similar functionally to that of iTunes or even Rhapsody. Who knows, maybe I'm just reaching, but I don't think they should throw in the towel just yet.
ReplyDeleteThere's no trends in Facebook. They've kept it really simple and much more safer than MySpace. Think about how easy was it was to create a fake account for someone on MySpace. You didn't even have to use a real name. A couple things that made Facebook great in the beginning that blew MySpace out of the water. 1. Tagged pictures: helped guys get pictures because girls are always out taking them; 2. Mutual friends/Networks: it was easy to find friends from school and you were able to preview a part of their page if you were part of the same network; 3. Chat: The killer. This made and still makes a lot of us spend countless hours on the page, slowly wasting our life away. Through these things as well as other updates such as the "Like" button and the easy view of the Wall Comments has made Facebook much more successful. As far as MySpace, it's done. In the short history of the internet, no website has ever made a turnaround. Even AOL is going backrupt, and everyone used it back in the late 90s/early 2000s. I think Facebook should buy MySpace and sync its music section to it as separate entities. I hope that happens. Zuckerberg is too rich...
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