This is why Facebook is the new MySpace

Let’s take this moment to all applaud Facebook. Facebook is achieving what its predecessors could not: it is able to hang on to a substantial amount of users. I mean, I guess it helps that it had a huge Oscar-winning (which I still maintain is bogus) movie made about it. Even though that movie is supposedly ridiculously inaccurate or whatever Zuckerberg said. Remember when MySpace was a thing? You’re probably trying to forget about those days. Well for the sake of my blog post, remember them for a second. 

I just Googled the amount of MySpace users’ activity since the beginning of the year and it’s down to something like 24.9 million views a month. Before you go thinking that’s a lot, think about how many times you get on Facebook or Twitter a day. Facebook gets 166 million a month. Also, poor MySpace lost about 10 million users a month in 2011. I remember talking to some younger girls in 2010 and they said something about how much they loved MySpace over Facebook. I bet they’re still the only users there. 2010 was still pretty late in the game to be using MySpace. 

I’m not sure why people decided to hate MySpace so much. Besides the weird layouts, lack of sharing pictures and updates, and awkward way of connecting to people, I don’t think it was that bad. The only reason I even stopped using mine (it’s still up there in the darkest crevice of the internet somewhere) is because everyone else stopped and I was the only one of my friends to ever get on. But it became a joke to everyone. 

Facebook is definitely headed that way…maybe. Facebook was smart. It was entangled and used with everything and every website that it’s kind of impossible for everyone to abandon Facebook the way they left MySpace. I’ve known individual people that have deleted their accounts but more often than not people just stop using it. It’s kind of hard to do anything else but just walk away with it still on the table.  With MySpace, there were hardly any negative consequences for deletion. If I cancel my Facebook, I’ll lose pictures I’m too lazy to re-save. I won’t have a way to get this blog really out there. I won’t get promotions or deals by liking someone’s page. Well played, Zuckerberg. Well played. 

I got on MySpace recently and it is so different. To give you an idea I took a screen shot and decided to save you the trouble, although MySpace stats could really use the user activity. 

(Sorry, I anticipated that you'd be able to click it to make it bigger, guess you're going to either not care or go log in for yourself)

Yeah, everything’s changed. And I’m not going to mention names, but from what I could read some people were still using it to listen to music and some people had it linked to their Twitters. I decided I didn’t want any of my old stuff shown, so I signed in with an old fake account I had. Well now that that awkward run in with your past is over, feel free to forget MySpace every existed again.