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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 7:13 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 7:59 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 8:14 am to Geekboy
When Mark Zuckerberg let the NSA install a few key "improvements" to his program code.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:27 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.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:46 am to Geekboy
Facebook took off because of its exclusivity and uncluttered feel, as shown in the movie and as everyone here mentioned. It wasn't full of bullshite, at least when it started.
It's ironic that it is now following the same path MySpace took that allowed Facebook to beat MySpace out originally. It's completely thrown its ideals of exclusivity and uncluttered/ad-free out the window. I can't post curse words or pictures of me drinking anymore because my damn grandma and 5 year old cousins are friend requesting me. And there's a mile of bullshite on my news feed I have to trudge through before I see anything from friends I actually care about. Add on top of that the fact that now employers will look you up before you interview and you now have to be a choir boy so God forbid they don't see a pic of you holding a beer.
But Facebook took a stranglehold on the industry and there's no real comparable substitute for it.
It's ironic that it is now following the same path MySpace took that allowed Facebook to beat MySpace out originally. It's completely thrown its ideals of exclusivity and uncluttered/ad-free out the window. I can't post curse words or pictures of me drinking anymore because my damn grandma and 5 year old cousins are friend requesting me. And there's a mile of bullshite on my news feed I have to trudge through before I see anything from friends I actually care about. Add on top of that the fact that now employers will look you up before you interview and you now have to be a choir boy so God forbid they don't see a pic of you holding a beer.
But Facebook took a stranglehold on the industry and there's no real comparable substitute for it.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:49 am to Geekboy
Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but MySpace was incredibly slow once it took off. If you read any of the books written about FaceBook, they will typically mention how MySpace could not keep up with its early growth and its network became overloaded.
Posted on 2/20/15 at 8:56 am to Geekboy
Don't belong to either... Don't care...
Posted on 2/20/15 at 9:47 am to Geekboy
Because MySpace was poorly organized and let people make their pages ugly as frick.
Posted on 8/7/23 at 3:37 pm to Geekboy
Hi
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