Today I decided to venture back to the world of Myspace. A place I spent a lot of time on as a 14 year old high school freshman. I have not been on in years, but never managed to fully delete my account. Yeah I deleted all of the content on my page, but my picture still shows a smiling 14 year old "Bri." I remember last visiting my Myspace page a year or more ago just to see how the content of the website had changed since the fad of Facebook. To be honest, it took me 3 tries to get the right password. I pulled up to the page and I found myself completely lost by its layout, but not so surprisingly a lot of it looked similar to Facebook.
According to my profile, on August 4, 2007 I set my mood as ":) happy." That was 3 and a half years ago. I only have 84 friends- compare that to my 1,003 Facebook friends. Wow. I also noticed my "top friends" on Myspace are people I haven't talked to in 1-2 years, and definitely none of them would make even my top 50 friend list now. The last person to write on my Myspace was 3 years ago vs. the last person to write on my Facebook wall was about an hour ago. Instead of Facebook's "news feed" Myspace calls it a "stream." Real clever Myspace...I wonder where you came up with that idea...
The competition between Facebook and Myspace isn't much of a competition at all. Myspace doesn't even compare to the power Facebook has. Which is sad in that Myspace virtually allowed the same thing that Facebook did except in a less elite or privatized way. I think Facebook lured so many users in with is exclusivity of needing to be 'invited' to the site by someone; where as Myspace was open to anyone and everyone (where anyone could pose as anyone they wanted to). Even though now Facebook is open to anyone, the fact that it started as private and turned public made people want to be apart of it even more. For example, I remember when I took the shift from Myspace to Facebook. It was the summer before my sophomore year in high school, and a senior invited me to be part of my high school's network. There were still under a hundred or so people on it so I felt really cool. Soon it opened up to more people, and pretty soon my friends and I weren't using Myspace anymore-- and it became almost like this out of date piece of fashion.
Fads come and they go. Popular for awhile, then fall back into oblivion trying desperately to climb back up. Who knows what will happen to Myspace. Will it stay? Will it go? Myspace is like an awkward middle schooler trying to be like the most popular girl in school (Facebook); no matter how much they attempt, they will never be the same.
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