buy high sell low, the fantastic demise of MySpace

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Best part: Murdoch losing a half billion.

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!! THE POWER OF CHIRST COMPELS YOU!!! Back to P&N with you...

 

[ultimatebob]

Psh, Prodigy was better.

Remember this commercial?

"AOL... so easy to use, no number it's #1!"

Between those ads and all of the CD's they sent us in the mail, I think that almost everyone started rooting for AOL to fail.

Since then, I've haven't seen any company gloat quite so much about being #1 provider of anything... it's a death wish.

 

[blurredvision]

I never had a problem with the music and graphics on profiles on Myspace. Maybe because my friends on there had taste and most were pretty decent to good with CSS. I never once saw flashing fonts or animated Gifs. People who complained about those things obviously had the wrong friends. Myspace's customization was it's only strong point, the fact people were friends with others who had no fucking clue how to make a nice looking layout wasn't Myspace's fault at all. Yet they still blamed Myspace, weird. On MS you NEVER heard any music or saw an ugly ass profiles that looked like a 97 Geocities page unless you clicked the link to view it.

Hahahaha....so real friends are only those who know CSS and have design skills? Excuse me while I laugh some more...

 

[preslove]

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!! THE POWER OF CHIRST COMPELS YOU!!! Back to P&N with you...

A little douche should get that sand out of your vagina...

 

[arcenite]

Hahahaha....so real friends are only those who know CSS and have design skills? Excuse me while I laugh some more...

The reading comprehension is poor with this one.

 

[gorcorps]

Facebook is too popular now. It won't die for a long time.

Pretty much. It has been too far ingrained into society now to just die off. People used to go to other sites for quick flash games, but now you can just go to facebook. I bought a bag of chips yesterday, and lays has their "find us on facebook" blurb and information. I don't see it going away.

 

[shortylickens]

Pretty much. It has been too far ingrained into society now to just die off. People used to go to other sites for quick flash games, but now you can just go to facebook. I bought a bag of chips yesterday, and lays has their "find us on facebook" blurb and information. I don't see it going away.

Which is kinda sad.
When I talk to the kiddies in school the bulk of their personal relationships seem to be online. They analyze how well their lives are going based on friends status: Seeing someone, its complicated, etc.
One girl I talked was outright afraid to confront her boyfriend. She only knew how their relationship was based on Facebook. I predict bad things for Americas future.

 

[0roo0roo]

ah myspace..proving that most people had bad taste

 

[Arkaign]

Woot woot I read the news too!

Facebook: if they are my real friends, I know what they are doing. If they are old friends, I usually don't care what they are doing. The fact that work, school, friends, family, etc all end up added as friends, or defriended, it is either very boring because you can't joke around without pissing someone off, or you cause more drama than a guy will know what to do with.

I just 'hide' most casual friends that I don't really care to follow, problem solved

 

[QueBert]

Hahahaha....so real friends are only those who know CSS and have design skills? Excuse me while I laugh some more...

Allow me to explain in more detail since the jest of what I said seemed to have gone over your head. When I had a Myspace account, my "friends" on there didn't have trashy looking profile. If you chose to be "friends" with people who find midi music and flashing backgrounds that can induce seizures in people sensitive to that kind of shit. That was totally your fault, not Myspace's. The default MS profile layout had no music, no videos, no animated Gifs, and wasn't gaudy at all. Are you gonna say "fcuk Myspace it's UGLY!" because YOU didn't have enough sense to not be friends with people who thought shit like rainbow flashing background profiles were cool?

That would be YOUR fault not Myspaces, again like I said in my previous post I didn't encounter any of that shit. Maybe because I would never be "friends" with the type that found that shit cool. But much like FB, people on MS added a bazillion people they didn't even know as "friends" Me on the other hand added people I knew in real life, and none of them fit that mold. Now it might have been different if when I went to the main MS page I was automatically visually and audibly assaulted with those profiles. But I wasn't, everyone on there had a choice which profiles they accessed.


I used the word taste in what you quoted, obviously most people suck at CSS/HTML, but even people with no design skills what-so-ever could keep shit Vanilla and not have a profile full of the things people put the blame on MS for giving them the option to have or not have.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Facebook is like World of Warcraft, except a much larger (and more generic) user base and a different market.

Both have grossly outgrown the competition, both have numerous problems, and neither will ultimately stand the test of time. They will either die a slow, painful death as the next gargantuan product starts rolling out, or they will be rolled into something new that tries to offer even more.

 

[Rudee]

Facebook is too popular now. It won't die for a long time.

They said the same thing about RIM and it's Blackberry smartphones a couple years ago.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

They said the same thing about RIM and it's Blackberry smartphones a couple years ago.

Except it's much more different. Facebook has more than 500 million active users, and it has a MUCH higher market penetration than RIM could have ever hoped for. It's a social phenomenon, one which almost everyone from teens to elderly people take part of. That cannot be denied.

BlackBerries were popular, just not anywhere near as much as Facebook. Nor were they social platforms which everyone took part of.

Now, since I know someone will play the old "oh, you're just saying it because you're an avid user", I haven't logged in to Facebook for one week. I'm not very interested in it except for some occasions, but it's impact cannot be denied. It's not gonna go anywhere anytime soon.

 

[SKORPI0]

Wow, a 94% loss of value in 6 years. D:

I think My_Space could still serve as a venue for aspiring artist, etc. Let see how it goes in a few months.

 

[Doppel]

MySpace's demise was primarily caused by Facebook in my opinion. What will supplant Facebook?

Probably something. Remember ICQ? Remember instant messaging?

The greatest shock to me about myspace is that anybody still thinks it's worth anything. it is shedding users at an alarming rate and that is a death knell above all others for a social media site. You're either growing or you are dead, you just don't know it yet.

I agree facebook isn't going anywhere quickly, though. It will be a brand around easily a decade from now, though who knows in what form. It is very pervasive and growing quickly.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea i don't see how its worth anything at this point. beyond the building and land value i don't get the valuation

 

[OverVolt]

Probably something. Remember ICQ? Remember instant messaging?

The greatest shock to me about myspace is that anybody still thinks it's worth anything. it is shedding users at an alarming rate and that is a death knell above all others for a social media site. You're either growing or you are dead, you just don't know it yet.

I agree facebook isn't going anywhere quickly, though. It will be a brand around easily a decade from now, though who knows in what form. It is very pervasive and growing quickly.

Facebook fatigue already set in for many countries where it has hit a saturation point and then the game is retaining members. The UK is one of them.