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- NinjaBoy, on 11/14/2007, -1/+85My space is becoming a victim of being a REALLY ***** website.
- Bonekhan, on 11/14/2007, -7/+52In a few months, Myspace will literally become MY space.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -5/+50MySpace ***** sucks.
- pwolfe, on 11/14/2007, -3/+45IMO, people are leaving myspace in droves because they are completely unable to manage the spam being sent to users. Checking your myspace page is like checking a hotmail email account. packed with spam mail and free porn links. Thats why I left.
- drobati, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34This is a inaccurate summary. People arn't changing because Facebook is the new hot thing. Facebook and Myspace have been around for equal amounts of time. The real reason is innovation. People are leaving because Facebook is more innovative. Myspace at one point in time was a nice place to be too until they stopped developing for it and quit adding new content and improving older content. If facebook becomes a heaping pile of garbage like myspace is people will migrate to a better alternative.
- Snuff99, on 11/14/2007, -5/+32:/ They're both just tools to communicate, I don't get why the media is trying to split them into social classes. A kid who is piss-poor can still have a facebook account. My guess is most teens have both.
- joshua5, on 11/14/2007, -1/+21Apparently none of you Facebook loyalists understand young people. They're not leaving anything, they're making 2nd profiles on both sites.
- Charleysancy, on 11/14/2007, -4/+21One of Rupert Murdock's ventures failing = Good news
- z33Tec, on 10/10/2007, -31/+47Myspace vs Facebook, no matter who wins, you're still a loser.
- kraniac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Facebook is more flexible, more reliable, more logically organized, and much easier on the eyes. Facebook isn't a "hot new thing," it's just a better website.
- cmgarcia, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16In case you want to know which portion of this article completely discredits it:
"...Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd. Not all teens are leaving MySpace, she wrote in a recent essay--instead, they're splitting up along class lines.
Boyd confirms what teens in any high school across the country already know: Affluent kids from educated, well-to-do families have been fleeing MySpace for Facebook since it opened registration to the general public in September, while working-class kids still flock to MySpace."
Oh yeah, gangster? - spelunker, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15You guys are just bitter you don't have as many friends added as I do.
- jevb007, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16Take that, people who use the internet.
- Forever-Zero, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12I am one of the "teens" who just switched from Myspace to Facebook. I wouldn't say it's because I'm fickle, but rather because I discovered that Myspace is complete *****.
Myspace is to the internet as Hungry Mans are to dinner. It still gets the job done, but you want to vomit in your own mouth when you're done. - damnasteroids, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10so switching to something that actually functions most of the time and isn't flooded with spam constitutes being fickle?
- MegaKN, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11I think the world will survive without people mindlessly obsessing over a concept that's been around for ages.
- LxRogue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9If people are leaving Myspace for Facebook, its not because it's the "hot new thing." What originally attracted people to Facebook was the privacy and the lack of clutter.
Now that Facebook is public and full of flashy applications, it's turning into Myspace. - Oomsoup, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I have both at the moment. I'm not a high school kid (I'm 30) and I've had Myspace for a long time now. I decided to check out Facebook and I have to say it seems much cleaner, neater and spam-free so far. I still keep Myspace because it seems to allow for more visual personal expression but I love that on Facebook I have a virtual library where I can recommend books to my friends (and write reviews), draw graffiti on their walls, show what stories I've dugg recently, etc. It's like you notice interesting things like that more than you do on Myspace, if only because there is not the same intense visual stimulation on Facebook.
- Seidoger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9>MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing.
No, MySpace just stood there and never improved.
It has become the victim of something being better than itself (and better is a really small word, it just doesn't compare).
Give me one reason there is to join MySpace today! Stuck in 2001.
Facebook is fun to use. And can be very useful. Its not about the "latest flick" - theNthDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Love how people who don't exhibit the tendency to remain "branded" become "fickle."
- Pix869, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8"Fickle teens following the new hot thing?"
*****. A website isnt' a social class, and people aren't fickle for choosing one over the other, or leaving one for the other. The fact of the matter is, well, Facebook is much easier to use, easier to organize, and it LOOKS better.
If I had to choose between a nice, clean layout where I can communicate with my friends, or a messy, epileptic-seizure inducing background-music blaring site that looks like it was made with MS paint, I would chose the former for obvious reasons.
Portraying Myspace as a victim of "Teen Fickleness" isn't fair. Myspace is only a victim of itself, for not being BETTER. - spudnic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7"A kid who is piss-poor can still have a facebook account."
It also costs a piss-poor kid the same amount of money to listen to classical music over rap/R&B/whatever the kids are buying nowadays, doesn't mean they're equally likely to do it.
I agree with you in principle that most kids have both, but at a certain point myspace stopped being 'cool', so they wont use it as much - cmgarcia, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Dugg for making me utter a single, "heh". Holler if you hear me.
- evilregis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6It has nothing to do with MySpace being a steaming pile? Not that Facebook isn't, but MySpace is about as steamy as it gets.
- ozid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I've always seen it as kids who enjoy people they meet and know at school, tend to use facebook, everyone else, uses myspace. And the majority of the facebook "kids" use myspace as well.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Becoming? Wasn't it already a really ***** website? I'm ashamed to admit it, but I was on there for about 2 years and any problems I had (from the site straight up not working to clicking on internal links only to be sent nowhere to constantly having to re-long back in) kept recurring.
- jonathansoeder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I read about class war in these things called books. The stakes seemed to be much higher in Marx's day when it was workers vs the bourgeoisie for who gets to control history.... Now the class war is being fought over social networking sites? Please.
- mav451, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Facebook should have stayed college ONLY. The minute they added high schoolers, it went downhill. Then came the in-line ads in your new feeds. Awesome.
- ExistentialFunk, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4these sites only have one purpose:to act as substitutes for actual human interaction interaction. ALSO-they're social NETWORKING sites, not social CLASS networking sites!
Irrelevant:studies show that facebook is set to surpass myspace by september - darundal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The point is more along the lines of a community billboard, or sticky notes on the fridge. Although depending on the site, either everyone could see your page by default (interesting if you are looking to meet new people, bad because of predators, etc) or only your friends, and the only thing visible to the public is the existence of a profile.
- mozzep, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4preparing for your SAT analogies?
- zilch321, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Anybody remember friendster? People leave because they are always looking for the next big thing. Hell back when digg was mostly tech it was often considered a slashdot replacement. And some day probably sooner rather than later digg will get replaced. The fact that anything on the internet is popular for more than 1 month is amazing, much less several years.
- Chizzibah, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As someone who adopted Facebook a few months after it started, all I can say is that in about 2 or so years Facebook will be drowning in advertising and spammers just like Myspace is right now. It always ends up being about making money and whatever big company buys up Facebook next will sell every bit of empty space and move FAR away from what the site used to be about and how the people LIKED it.
Can someone please make another networking website for the 13 year old sluts and playboys so that they don't infest Facebook? - svenathon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5If you're IMing you're not in contact with quite as many people. Having everyone you know on one site simplifies things quite a bit, as even casual acquaintances are easy to get in touch with. Plus you have infinite space for photo albums, which can be tagged to your friends actual profiles. If you ask me (and I don't have "friends" on facebook I dont know in real life) that's pretty useful, and cool.
- mcoticch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What an awesome job for that professor. Get paid an ass load of money to write essays on ridiculous things that no one would ever care about
- skankyBacon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5On behalf of Facebook users...if you're using MySpace now, please stay there.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3ehhhh i never had myspace and now i'm leaving facebook after 3 years. i win.
- ozid, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3If you're a kid, it's more like the people who don't use it are the "losers" because they are the social outcasts that have no need to use it. Adults, it's different. I made the transition from kid to adult while I've had a myspace. I still have one, but use it much less. Its mostly just for making last minute plans, because everyone checks for messages once a day.
- acebrickman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Right on.. now with Facebook tools & add-ons, I'm afraid of what I'm going to log in to next. Facebook was simple. Facebook was quick to load. Facebook had an exclusive crowd. Now anyone can get a f'ing Facebook profile & sell me whatever crap they can. Next pedo stalker story is going to come from Facebook.. I betcha
- jevb007, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Yeah, these sites are pointless and mostly populated by retards, but why do you care? Are you being forced into using it? When my college finally got facebook, tons of people signed up, but nobody held a gun to my head, and I didn't. Somehow I survived.
- Jambi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It's both. It's also turning into a web portal with all those apps.
- sickswaystop, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3***** you nerd get a sense of humor. thanks
- Lionhart, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So you're saying Facebook is like Lean Cuisine? Or maybe Stouffers?
Btw you're welcome for introducing you to Facebook! - deathtom64, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i left myspace because of the annoying "bulletins" people left. that mostly consisted of"fill out this quiz" "forward this or you will die" or "read my blog and check out my pictures!!" all in which i found to be completely annoying. I also hated how people tried to out compete each other in who is the most "unique". Myspace is nothing but a fester pit of immature, stupid, self centered, matieralistic kids who think that there blogs will change the world.
Sadly, facebook is slowly turning into another myspace but this is expected because all of the attention facebook has been getting has attracted all the "trendy scene kids". For now i will stick with facebook but as soon as a "bulletin" feature is added, i will be strictly an IM/email guy.
I could go on but it would be a novel lol.
- AJay85, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3MySpace VS Facebook is a class issue? Old people are way out of touch.
- ReturnToFreedom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I'd like to believe that MySpace is failing because people are angry at the Australian who started Fox News in conjuction with Saudi Arabians and sold propaganda to guillible Americans about what true American values are.
- diggomaniac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Facebook started growing faster ever since they allowed more than just college students to join.
- yonas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2As a web professional who understands trends and has seen metrics first-hand, I can tell you that your statement (MySpace is never going to die) is quite ignorant. It may not die completely, but it's very possible it could reach a buoyant low, like what happened to Friendster. Facebook is better in every single aspect - server reliability, load balancing, open API, fantastic and dynamic web applications, design aesthetics, usability, and the list goes on and on.
I suggest you do research before ever making another comment. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5why dont kids just pay $10 and host their own internet domain? i did that when i was like 16 (my user name dot com)
- mcoticch, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1very original...
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