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Why did Facebook become more popular than MySpace?
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:03 am
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:03 am
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Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:07 am to Geekboy
MySpace didnt have farmville
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:07 am to Geekboy
Teenage girls killed myspace by posting songs and decorating their pages, etc.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:09 am to Geekboy
I was a Myspace defender till the end,Then I realized it was really all for Mobsters.
This post was edited on 2/20/15 at 8:10 am
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:10 am to Geekboy
Exclusivity by needing a .edu email to register.
Now Facebook = myspace
Now Facebook = myspace
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:12 am to Geekboy
It was simple and clean originally. The current FB may not have has as much success if released back then.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:12 am to TigerHam85
quote:
Exclusivity by needing a .edu email to register.
This, at first.
Now I think the uniformity of it helps. If I'm clicking through I don't have to see someone's terrible background and a shitty song doesn't start playing.
Except now FB will auto-play videos in the news feed, but you can disable that, same as you could disable the songs on MySpace, which I just assume everyone did.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:13 am to TigerHam85
Yep. It's explained perfectly in "the social network"
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:13 am to Geekboy
1) Spamming was a huge problem for Myspace users.
2) Myspace let people decorate their pages with sparkles, strange music, etc. There is no better proof that the average person has terrible designer skillz than Myspace.
2) Myspace let people decorate their pages with sparkles, strange music, etc. There is no better proof that the average person has terrible designer skillz than Myspace.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:52 am to WeeWee
quote:absolutely ruined Myspace.
decorating their pages
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:56 am to TigerHam85
Yup. When I first registered for Facebook you either had to have a school email or if you were in HS and didn't have one you had to be invited by somebody at your HS and then confirmed by a couple other people at your HS. Also college and HS Facebook were seperate, you couldn't add each other.
That was the appeal. No adults.
That was the appeal. No adults.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:58 am to arcalades
The layout is probably the biggest reason for its success. FB was clean and simple and uncluttered.
The exclusivity was a big deal for me. It was a network for a specific group. Only .edu college students could join. So a network of like-minded/aged people like "me".
Also, in the beginning, it was incredibly useful for connecting with people in your classes. You could actually load your schedule into FB. Automatically linking you to the people in your class. It was the digital "creeper" that wasn't frowned upon. See a hot chick in a class, could check that class on FB as put a name/info to her face. Then try to hook up (poke, friend request). It was an infant version of Tinder.
The exclusivity was a big deal for me. It was a network for a specific group. Only .edu college students could join. So a network of like-minded/aged people like "me".
Also, in the beginning, it was incredibly useful for connecting with people in your classes. You could actually load your schedule into FB. Automatically linking you to the people in your class. It was the digital "creeper" that wasn't frowned upon. See a hot chick in a class, could check that class on FB as put a name/info to her face. Then try to hook up (poke, friend request). It was an infant version of Tinder.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 7:59 am to Geekboy
Simplicity of site. Like Google.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:05 am to Geekboy
exclusivity created forced scarcity and made it look shiny. this had a double benefit b/c once it hit your college, EVERYONE got on, so you already had your own friends around you. most people of that era saw interacting online as weird as shite, so signing up and having all the people you know on there made it easier to transition.
FB was much better coded and we were all about smooth tech that sacrificed what we could do on it (see: apple's resurgence in the same time)
FB was much better coded and we were all about smooth tech that sacrificed what we could do on it (see: apple's resurgence in the same time)
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:08 am to BowlJackson
That was when FB was cool. Other than these message boards to post I no longer use FB or MySpace and don't plan on it.
Td takes up more than enough time for me already
Td takes up more than enough time for me already
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:11 am to lsucoonass
All I know is I met tons if girls on MySpace 10 years ago....
Got old after I got into a relationship and faded away.
That was the end of my social network days.
Got old after I got into a relationship and faded away.
That was the end of my social network days.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:14 am to Geekboy
When Mark Zuckerberg let the NSA install a few key "improvements" to his program code.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:18 am to TIGRLEE
All the different games on FB plus Instagram Pinterest yikyak etc has over saturated the whole social media. It's too much technology for me personally
I prefer the simple things in life though.
I prefer the simple things in life though.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:19 am to OLDBEACHCOMBER
Don't a couple of Russian guys own a large share of FB stock now?
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:27 am to Geekboy
I'm in my 30s and way past the phase of being embarrassed by my parents, but good God the 45-65 demo has ruined Facebook for me. You can't post a witty comment on your feed without them commenting something like "huh? I don't get it?"
I'm waiting for the day when Facebook has a feature where you can disable people commenting on your posts.
I'm waiting for the day when Facebook has a feature where you can disable people commenting on your posts.
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