MySpace peeping into Facebook’s playbook
By Triston McIntyre
As Facebook’s popularity is climbing to new heights every day, MySpace is doing what it can to salvage its own image. Rumor has it the social networking site will be reworking itself from the ground up to become the spitting image of Facebook.
MySpace was once the favored social networking site when Facebook was restricted to college students; however, now that Facebook has opened its gates to the entire public, many are realizing the structure and simplicity of Facebook coupled with the new applications make it superior to MySpace.
The problem with MySpace is more than the design; its the image. Let’s face it: the majority of social networking users are youth, from very young people to graduate students. Above and beyond that, the major usage of social networking site wanes drastically.
MySpace, whether anyone wants to say it or not, is just a poor site used by a different group of people than Facebook. If you want to fit in, you need a Facebook account; above and beyond that, why even bother with the MySpace account?
Even if MySpace does a complete redesign, there’s very little chance it’ll be able to steal any of Facebook’s momentum. However, if it can copy some of the good elements of Facebook and add some innovation of its own, there is a chance they can revive their dying image.
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November 18th, 2007
The flaw with this is that it’s built on the premise that Facebook is flawless. Facebook is a mess. Users get bombarded by every little annoying save-the-darfur-starving-alien-fantasy-zombie-schrute-drink application out there. Sort through a couple of those invites and then you can get around to doing something. But even then if you wan to do something like post a picture on a friends wall from last weekends party you can’t do it. You have to go upload the photo spcifically to Facebook and then hope they noticed you tagged them in a photo. Nice but not the same and annoying for normal human beings who already ahve a flickr, snapfish or another photo site where they already upload all their images to.
Can we just agree that both MySpace and Facebook leave a lot to be desired and that neither is a shoe-in at this point?
April 6th, 2008
Hy,
Facebook..a total mess.
Daily i get non stop stupid applications telling me to make sketch, hug the member, slap on face, throw a sheep, give a nicekname and most of all the walls. They just freek me out. All the three walls, fun super and simple wall, are same. Just to create something as they call intrestn they are doing this.
Myspace is simple, easy and relaxing. And Most of all its decent for me..!!
But i guess they both dont have any competion. becase if they did then definately myspace people would have used some more features. They keep their onw ting and facebook keeps its own.
and both are going fine. I dont see a problem anyway. I just dont like facebook personally.
Thanks :D
Bye