I got an invitation to join a MySpace group today. Of course, it turned out to be spam. But, it made realize how nonexistent MySpace has become for me. I never get any mail notices, invites and it rarely comes up in conversation at all. Of course, it’s all Facebook, all the time. Is Facebook really the end-game? Probably not, but it’s incredible how quickly the game shifted to MySpace, and then to Facebook, rendering MySpace irrelevant to my peer group.
Do you use MySpace at all? Did you ever? If you stopped, what was the main reason?
Funny, because it isn’t like MySpace has gone away… it’s just become increasingly less relevant for many of us
MySpace was quite a phenomena – but the signal-to-noise ratio has gone from bad to unbearable. I joined solely to be able to email members who were pulling unattributed, copyrighted images from my server.
Just a nice message asking folks for attribution and to host the image file on their own dime. I even gave up on that because most don’t care or reply. Aside from being a not-so-clean-and-well-lit space, the community standards were lacking.
Maybe I missed the sign saying “No one over 50 allowed.”
Dave, got Facebook on your mind much these days?! 🙂
I don’t think you’re alone in this mindset though and I give FB credit for pulling that off with a bunch of business people.
I think the issue lies with the fact that there is a bifurcation that has occurred, perhaps on a socio-economic basis, between Facebook and MySpace. By and large, I believe FB is being used primarily by more “corporate” folks, in addition to their instilled college and recent alumni base. MySpace on the other hand speaks to a dramatically different group…with a really different product these days.