Poor MySpace, still trying to usurp the thousands who left for Facebook…
Today, as I signed into my account, I was greeted with this:
It reads,
“Now you and your friends can be updated whenever either of you:
- Adds new photos
- Adds new videos
- Adds new blogs
- Edits their profiles
- Adds new music (bands only)
Besides being grammatically incorrect in the most atrocious way, it ends up making MySpace look like the jealous sibling of a new baby. If MySpace really wants to retain their current users and attract new ones, they have to come up with a more creative strategy than copying their could-be successor.
Come now, let’s think outside the box.
27 November, 2007 at 6:08 pm
VERY sad indeed!, when are they going to come that this whole product is a complete crying shame. OKay okay okay, i promised myself to stop my MySpace rants, so i will!.
27 November, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Although, I don’t think anyone has actually LEFT MySpace for Facebook… don’t most people just use both? I know Facebook is trying, but it still doesn’t seem as well set-up for bands, for instance… lots of bands have set-up Virb accounts, though. But I still don’t think anyone really uses Virb.
I think MySpace should just block spam-whatnot like Facebook does, somehow, and people would like them more. Not sure what the issue is with that.
27 November, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Not sure I agree with that one, Brandon. People may not delete their MySpace accounts, but I would venture to guess they do not sign in half as much (if not less) than they used to. Personally, I think that if you only sign in to see if you have any messages, it’s the same thing as leaving. That’s where I am anyway.
I agree with you on the bands, though. I think that’s where MySpace could be different. They must capitalize on what’s different; find something that they can provide that Facebook doesn’t.
29 November, 2007 at 8:09 am
It’s always been a mystery to me how MySpace got so popular. Bands obviously love it as a promotional tool, but to me it just looks like a horrific flashback to the internet in 1998.
This being said MySpace isn’t the only platform guilty of shameless copying– I noticed this week that Facebook has introduced its own “fan” pages.
I don’t think it’s about originality anymore. It’s about swallowing up the internet as a whole until the next little fish comes along and eats them both.
1 December, 2007 at 1:47 pm
You don’t normally see that kind of behavior from a man wearing argyle socks.
1 December, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Oops, wrong thread, I was just on the Chase and Sanborn advert. I know what it is, this new wonky wireless optical mouse. Jumps pages.
Apologies for off topic drivel