MySpace : Too Little, Too Late
18Jun2008 Filed under: Life Author: :S23music:
MySpace is losing users daily. People are jumping to Facebook- me included. It’s not a recent jump, I’ve been on Facebook for a while,however I didn’t get sucked in until I realized the “fun” I can have with my friends. Something I never had on MySpace. MySpace was basically a get back in touch and leave a message network. It had some cool things and really helped some of my music friends but the interaction was basic message and bulletin board style, nothing exciting.
This week MySpace is rolling out a whole new site design complete with new interaction modules (looks like it went live today- new colors- but still bulky looking). MySpace recognized that people want to play Scrabulous and Mob Wars with their friends.. as well as share TV shows, music, and movies in a fun and engaging way. You can share your favorites on MySpace but in a list in a little box to the left– hardly interactive. These features have spurred the growth of Facebook, and these features came from Facebook opening up their platform to outside developers, something MySpace didn’t want to do… until now.
Is it too late? For me, I really don’t want to go back to MySpace and redesign and rediscover it all over again… I’ve fallen for Facebook. Am I alone? Probably not. At some point we get tired of testing every new social experiment, at least on a personal level. For my interactive business side, I’ll keep trying them and evaluating them to understand what tools can help and which ones are just noise…
I haven’t deleted my MySpace page yet, but I’ve gotten close. I do log in once every week or so, but it has become a habit to just check messages- much like a complicated email system.
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I've spent most of my life in music and marketing. I currently work as an interactive marketing manager. I launched an indie label in 2004 with one artist and 11 songs. We now distribute over 30 artists and 600+ songs worldwide. I write music tracks for multiple tv/movie/music catalogs. No I can't tell you which ones... it's like ghost writing. I want to score a movie one day, indie is fine. I love the beach. I love loud music. I love my wife. I love my daughter and baby boy.
Christy
June 18th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Oh how I agree with you..I too jumped to facebook and never really looked back to myspace. I love the interactiveness of facebook especially now with the internal chat feature.
Thanks for the great post.
Jason
June 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
My downfall is Scrabulous on Facebook, and I hate scrabble in the real world!
Thanks for stopping by!
Calvin
June 19th, 2008 at 10:33 am
i stopped using myspace years ago. Too much clutter and spam. I am also guilty of loving scrabulous.
Some Law Student
June 19th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I have to confess I’m still very much addicted to both sites. I have friends who won’t touch Facebook and thus the only way I can stay in touch with them is through MySpace and then the same goes for Facebook (which is what gets me through most of my law school classes).
I guess time will tell if I can ever really let go of either of them. I’m seriously doubting it at this point.
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Stella
June 24th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
This makes me sad. I, too, am fairly sick of MySpace, but I can’t get into Facebook. I opened a Facebook account last Fall when I had my tonsils out…I had nothing better to do. It lasted…about a day. I couldn’t stand the whole updates thing…whatever it was called I can’t remember. Like, I don’t want people to know when I sign in, when I sign off, when I posted a picture, etc. I’m a working corporate girl. And we need to be stealth.
Teach me how to hide all that and I might give it another try.
Jason
June 24th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
This is right up your alley- just say yes, right?
It’s funny you say that, because when I first got on that was the exact reason I didn’t really like the site.
The second time around I changed all that. Here’s the down low to get your facebook profile private.
When you log in, go to privacy in the top right corner. Choose profile. Here you can determine what is shared and with whom. I choose friends only. Basically, you can find me but can’t find out anything about me unless I let you. Secondly from that same privacy page choose News Feed and Mini Feed. This is the place to turn off the annoying alerts and notices. No joke, I don’t have anything checked at all. The only update people get on me is when I update my status… that’s it (unless you follow me on twitter or friendfeed but that’s a whole other issue).
Stealth is golden.
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