Comments on: Facebook’s exponential growth and the demise of Myspace http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/facebooks-exponential-growth-and-the-demise-of-myspace ...and another thing! Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:21:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Constantine http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/facebooks-exponential-growth-and-the-demise-of-myspace/comment-page-1#comment-174826 Scott Constantine Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:21:27 +0000 http://www.digitaltoast.co.uk/facebooks-exponential-growth-and-the-demise-of-myspace/#comment-174826 Analysts have been trying to predict the downfall of MySpace for years but, as we've seen in this article, the day has finally dawned when it has to shut its doors.<br><br>As many of the commenters here have mentioned, its down to Old Media trying to apply their ways to a Web 2.0 market and failing miserably. By hiring exclusive video producers and suchlike, MySpace are trying to get their community to interact with the site - not each other. They forgot that MySpace was created for us all to manage our social networks, and offering us awful preview clips of upcoming movies is hardly stimulating the main aspect of the site. <br><br>You can read more on why the social aspect failed (and thus why Facebook was allowed to take the advantage) in my essay on the subject, located at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/n363dj" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/n363dj</a> Analysts have been trying to predict the downfall of MySpace for years but, as we've seen in this article, the day has finally dawned when it has to shut its doors.

As many of the commenters here have mentioned, its down to Old Media trying to apply their ways to a Web 2.0 market and failing miserably. By hiring exclusive video producers and suchlike, MySpace are trying to get their community to interact with the site – not each other. They forgot that MySpace was created for us all to manage our social networks, and offering us awful preview clips of upcoming movies is hardly stimulating the main aspect of the site.

You can read more on why the social aspect failed (and thus why Facebook was allowed to take the advantage) in my essay on the subject, located at http://tinyurl.com/n363dj

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