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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:02 pm
by GORDON
What did Facebook do that Myspace didn't? Just curious. One day Myspace had a hundred million users, a month later Myspace was a joke. What happened?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:07 pm
by TheCatt
If you've ever looked at MySpace, I think that answers itself.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:08 pm
by GORDON
Noted.
Does anyone have a better answer?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:11 pm
by Leisher
A lot.
The layout of MySpace sucked money balls. Almost every page was a nightmare to load thanks to music and backgrounds that were customizable and loaded up when you visited a page. The search function was terrible. The whole thing was mainly populated by teens and D list celebs. Viruses and nude photos were quite common on MySpace.
Facebook, on the other hand, seemed to start off by grabbing adults and corporations. It had a clean look which seemed to give it credibility. It also seems to be a lot more family friendly.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:12 pm
by GORDON
Oh yeah, I remember the annoying audio files on a bunch of myspace pages.
So that's it... poor decisions about layout sunk a billion dollar company?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:13 pm
by TheCatt
Leisher just put more words to my answer.
Facebook aimed at college students, and let's face it... at least some part of everyone wants to be in college.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:15 pm
by thibodeaux
MySpace is/was ghetto.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:43 pm
by TPRJones
With MySpace you have a lot more control over how you make your page look. Which is a really bad idea, given how bad most people are at web design.
I don't use Facebook myself, but how is the spam on there? That was something else that helped kill MySpace, but I don't know if it's a factor that is different between the two.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:50 pm
by GORDON
Spam: On Facebook I thought I had a good handle on blocking the "Person X just got Achievement Y in Game Z! You should click here and help them out!" stuff, but the last week or so, all of a sudden I am getting that crap from multiple people. I am wondering if Facebook changed some permission in everyone's accounts so stuff that was previously blocked is now not.
I don't know.
All I know for sure is last week I wasn't seeing this stuff at all, and this week more than 50% of the posts I see from my friend list are these stupid games.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:57 pm
by TPRJones
One solution that worked for me on Twitter was to immediately unfriend anyone that posted any of that crap. You'd be surprised how quickly you can cut the spam that way, and I bet you'll find that less than half your friends are posting 95%+ of all that spam.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:00 pm
by GORDON
Leisher would be the first to go... he told me he changed his account so that only people who play that game get those updates, but I'm still seeing them.
Fake edit: Actually, I just now looked so I could list what I was seeing from Leisher, and ALL of that stuff is now being filtered out. So I have no idea what is going on.
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:04 pm
by Leisher
I am wondering if Facebook changed some permission in everyone's accounts so stuff that was previously blocked is now not.
Facebook permissions seem to work a lot like Microsoft Updates. You disable MSN Messenger and that stupid Language Bar, but do an update and there they are again.
Empires & Allies is the game you're referring to and I gave it a try because it looked like CivWorld, but better. I was right, but it's also the typical Zynga game that requires cash or about a million friends to have any success in the game. So don't expect me to be there long. In fact, I might already be done.
Facebook vs. Myspace
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:10 am
by Leisher
Facebook vs. Myspace
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:21 am
by TheCatt
Facebook vs. Myspace
Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:20 am
by Vince
Heh... Two opposite extremes. MySpace lost all your info. Facebook will never lose any tidbit of your info.
Facebook vs. Myspace
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:43 am
by Leisher
TheCatt wrote:
It exists?
Remember Justin Timberlake dumped something like $14M into it a few years back. The goal was to specifically target musicians and whatnot. Massive failure.
Vince wrote: MySpace lost all your info. Facebook will never lose any tidbit of your info.
That's hilariously true.
Facebook vs. Myspace
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:47 am
by TheCatt
Leisher wrote: Remember Justin Timberlake dumped something like $14M into it a few years back.
0% remember that.
In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees.[15][16] In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million.[17] On February 11, 2016, it was announced that Myspace and its parent company had been purchased by Time Inc.[18][19] Time Inc. was in turn purchased by the Meredith Corporation on January 31, 2018.[20]
As of January 2018, Myspace was ranked 4,153 by total Web traffic, and 1,657 in the United States.[3]
Ooof.