Does anyone use Myspace anymore?
Just 4 years ago in 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp ponied up $580 million for Intermix Media, the parent company of Myspace.com.
At the time, Myspace was one of the fastest growing sites on the internet. The site had 18 million users, and was growing at a rate of around 2 million new users per month, and just a month before had surpassed Google in online market share.
They were even turning a profit, making about 6.25 million dollars in the second quarter of 2005. The future was bright.
A lot has changed in the last four years.
Facebook began in 2004 as a networking site exclusive to Harvard University Students. It spread to other Universities and High schools around the country, and in 2006, Facebook opened up to the general public and since that time has become the most popular social networking site in the US.
In June of this year, Techcrunch reported that Facebook had surpassed Myspace in monthly unique visitors in the US, and Facebook has more than doubled Myspace’s monthly unique visitors worldwide.
Here at the Flyer, I’ve found myself logging into and updating our Myspace page less and less over the past couple years, to the point that most recently I noticed that I hadn’t updated our Myspace page in over 6 months. We update on Facebook and Twitter several times a day.
In fact, I’ve found that the only time I ever visit Myspace at all is when I’m looking to link to a local band profile, (Myspace still has decent pages for bands), but with sites like Pure Volume providing a more user friendly interface and growing in popularity by the day, even Myspace band pages seem to be doomed.
Locally, more and more of my friends are announcing that they have deleted their Myspace page, and have moved to using Facebook and the recently popular Twitter exclusively for social networking.
What about you guys? Do you still use Myspace? Have you moved to Facebook or Twitter? Did News Corp waste almost $600 million dollars?
And seriously, does anyone use Myspace anymore?
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Travis Williams
July 23, 2009
I no longer use MySpace. I use Twitter and Facebook to meet all my social networking needs.
Ingsoc
July 23, 2009
I think NewsCorp acquiring it has a lot to do with it failing. Interwebbers like independence. Myspace is full of ads and takes forever to load.
BG
July 23, 2009
Deleted MySpace since I hadn’t connected other than on my iphone in the last year. Now only Facebook and Twitter….which updates my Facebook.
Me
July 23, 2009
I still use it since I never started on facebook, but I use the term “use” very loosley.
vax
July 23, 2009
I personally think myspace is bloated and slow. as a web developer I appreciate the way the developers of facebook thought about things like usability and have coded the site to keep up with the demand. meanwhile myspace trys to implement every new feature facebook gets and it just results in the site getting more and more buggy and lagged out. couple that with the constant birage of spam and bands you really could care less about and I find myself more and more going to facebook. I used to be logged into myspace pretty regularly but facebook is always up these days and myspace I log into maybe once a month at the most.
bryce
July 23, 2009
Deleted mine about 8 months ago.
Taylor
July 23, 2009
I used to have Myspace, but I don’t use it anymore. I blog and use facebook. It is a lot simpler without all of the distracting backgrounds, etc. I am doing a fundraiser and facebook is the easiest way to contact a lot of people at one time! I am into it!
Aaron
July 23, 2009
I still have myspace, but I never use it. Like what was already said, All I use it for is music purposes. Almost every band has some music up on myspace, so I go there first to hear a band if someone is talking about them and I’m unfamilar with them
roberto campana
July 23, 2009
I’m still totally way into Friendster. Oh, wait, it’s not 2003 anymore. What I wonder is if the Flyer will be posting a story in four years asking whether anyone still uses Facebook. Oh, wait, everything is ending in 2012, per the Mayan calendar. Never mind.
Stuart Feild
July 24, 2009
I really liked myspace because you could do anything with the page with your own code to the point that a lot of pages are horribly unreadable and take forever to load. But they have recently taken that away, at least for new users or if you “upgrade” your account to the “new myspace”. It’s still the best for bands and music stuff, however they need to fix their search feature it’s always been so horrible.
Mary
July 25, 2009
There’s no one left on myspace, but I’m still there. I think I like it even more, now that there’s not a lot of people going crazy over myspace. Facebook and twitter are the new trend and I will never be on those sites. Even though now I like myspace, there’s really no one left on there, so now I go on livemocha.com. It’s a social network with a purpose. It’s like Rosetta Stone + myspace.
It’s a site that teaches you as many new languages as you want to learn. You take a lesson then you do a mini reading and writing test, then you send it out to other people who are fluent in that language and they leave corrections and comments on your work for everyone to see. You can also help other people learn English by correcting/commenting on their work… There’s a lot of people on that site. In a couple of days I’ve had way more friends than I ever did on myspace. It’s cool to meet new people from other walks of life. It’s also cool to learn a new language and help others learn English.
Jessica Ann Beil
July 27, 2009
Myspace?! No sir… though technically I still have a profile, I have not logged-in in quite sometime. Facebook and Twitter are the way to go… isn’t myspace the creepers social site?
Jo
August 11, 2009
I honestly haven’t logged into my myspace account in well over 6 months. I have been using Facebook for well over 2 years now and find it to be so much more adult friendly than myspace. Plus, most of my friends and family aren’t even on myspace anymore since they all use Facebook, so that is where I am. I’ll admit that I used to log onto myspace multiple times a day before I discovered Facebook, but my usuage on myspace gradually became less and less as soon as I jumped on the Facebook bandwagon and now, 2 years later, I don’t even use it at all. I should probably actually delete my myspace account since it has been so long since I have logged into it and I really have no plans to ever use it again. I actually think thay myspace is kind of creepy since there are so many freaks on there. I was always getting friend requests and weird messages from people I didn’t even know. I sometimes felt like I was being stalked on there.
Tings Like Dat
September 30, 2009
One could tell that MySpace users were migrating to Facebook with the amount of silly quizes and applications being added to profiles.
MySpace was about 13 year old girls being spammed by old men and bands who sell 14 records in their lifetime. Facebook was more like a great big friggin’ directory. Real names as opposed to fake names.
MySpace is a barren wasteland now. I still have a profile but havent logged in for months – nor have my friends.
MagicInviter
September 30, 2009
mySpace is innundanted with spam and repeat messages from “bands”. It’s like MagicInviter on MIRC all over again!
Amanda
January 26, 2010
Great article. I actually deleted my myspace in 2006, took a year off from social sites and joined facebook in 2007. I loved the exclusivity of facebook in the beginning, meaning just your friends were there. When it grew so large, it lost that friend-sanctuary feel for me and now it is a place where you have to avoid wack people invading your fun friend zone and the awkward real life social situations of ignoring friend requests. Sorry, the fun wind is out my sails. I think social networking sites will eventually go away in a couple of years as all crazes do, like the hula hoop.
ok
February 10, 2010
facebook is for college people. the ones who have had everything given to them all their life. it’s not for regular people & artists. that’s who myspace is for.
Zapp Brannigan
February 10, 2010
@OK – That is delightful! I shall have the help copy your missive to my Wall, whereupon may-hap my colleagues shall Like it! I must say, this Facebook is a wonderful refuge for the “upper crust” among us. Why, just this morning I became a “fan” of the local squash brigade! Just smashing!
I must confess that Facebook is quite a splendid refuge from common folk such as yourself!