June 15, 2011
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Will Facebook Become like Myspace?
I read an article that indicated that the use of Facebook is declining in the U.S. and Canada.
100,000 people from the U.K. deactivated their accounts. Here is the link: Link
This has caused some to wonder if Facebook will become like Myspace.
Do you think Facebook will die like Myspace?
Comments (111)
Way to complicated for me in either forum. I need simple
I loved Myspace and I would still use it if it were still customizable and fun!
I think it will eventually. But…what will be the next ‘it’ social networking site? I think Twitter has about died too.
I think it will but only if there is something else to replace it. Personally, I love facebook. I love creepin on people and knowing the latest on everyone. I also love being able to comment and talk to my friends that way if they are out of state and can’t use their cells.
Don’t care, as I’m slowly using it less and less.
I just hope that Xanga doesn’t die!
everything will die sooner or later!
I think eventually, but not soon. People are still using it on a daily basis and it’s still the main way people keep up with their friends. Unless some new mind-blowing social site comes out in the next year I see facebook staying around.
I don’t care for FB, Xanga is my one and only love. <3
I was with Facebook for one day, then left. They asked me the wrong question. I find them nosy.
Wait, Myspace has died? Where was I at?
Sometimes I contemplate on deactivating my account. But then I think I’d rather delete all of my IRL friends and keep all of my online friends instead. They’re the only ones I communicate with anyway.
But yes, I think it’s declining.
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I hope so, that would be hilarious. Especially if they changed the name to
book to try to be cool.
Eventually, most likely
gosh, i hope not. i’m tired of trying to keep up with friends whom mostly always follow ‘what’s new’. first it was myspace, then friendster, then facebook, then twitter… i just can’t keep up.
I’ve noticed that trend, lately. It’s like how all my friends switched from Xanga to MySpace. I resented MySpace in the same way I resent Twitter. Social Networking sites are only fun (at least for me) when all your friends are there to comment. Facebook would be insanely boring if none of my friends updated.
there’s always something better out there…
I don’t think so–it’s got too much going for it. I mean, you have the whole update your life thing like Myspace had, the immediate status updates like Twitter, the blogs you can write in Notes like Xanga, plus picture/video/link/info sharing. Oh, and there are simple Flash games and decent ads, and the ability to link all of your internet accounts together, which I love. I think Facebook is going to do pretty well for a while yet.
At some point. Something better always comes along.
And then it runs like wildfire and it’s commercialized and the public begins to not like it anymore for that reason, and that keeps declining until a new project crops up.
It’ll last for a good while, though. Facebook does what it is intended to very well, and it will take a lot to overthrow it.
John
I see Facebook dying because people are sick and tired of seeing all of their friends posting about their so-called wonderful lives.
Nope. It’s too much a part of global networking now. This is on a scale that MySpace never even came close to touching, by the way. The vast majority of people who leave Facebook end up returning in a month anyway, so this article is nothing more than sensationalistic bullshit written by people who have no idea what they’re talking about.
(Also, the only reason MySpace is still around is because they’ve signed exclusive deals with record labels to promote new music.)
definitely yes
It wouldn’t surprise me if it did. And soon.
i wonder if social networking is a fad? I don’t use Facebook much anymore. Only time I really used it a lot was on my phone while I was bored in class. There’s not much need for it in the summer when you’re out running around with people.
I already answered this in Facebook haha :p.
Maybe later in the future. I use tumblr, facebook and xanga. Rarely twitter.
I was already bored of facebook and don’t update it. I mostly surf on xanga
I’ll eventually get bored and go back to watching t.v.
I only do Xanga and found th eother two a bit not to my liking.
did they go to friendster or tagged?
Rob_of_the_Sky
meh, dk. i miss when it was just for college kids
no little kids or grandmas filling your feed with crap. I also still miss AIM. i still use it, but only one or 2 other friends do.
All good things must come to an end. I think some people have potentially allowed facebook to cause a lot of drama in their lives.
I don’t know.
I highly doubt it. It may have hit it’s peak or close to it. Myspace faded out due to Facebook. Facebook doesn’t really have a credible challenger. However, I will say and I do hope that people find other great social sites outside of FB like xanga, goodreads, last.fm, & others. FB is very limited.
Myspace never overthrew any repressive governments.
Facebook is extremely integrated into our commercial and social lives at this point. They’ve reached a level of online connectivity that Myspace never even came close to touching. Facebook is already becoming “unhip” and “uncool” with people my age, but it’s extremely popular outside of the Generation Y and Z demographics and that’s why it will continue to survive. My parents couldn’t even tell you what Myspace was; now nearly everyone in my family has a Facebook account.
I don’t care. Xanga is more peaceful for some reason which is why I like Xanga more.
UHHH is there a replacement? a better social networking site? not yet? then i don’t think so.
I don’t want to deactivate my facebook, just because it is an easy tool for communicating with people quickly, but aside from checking it once a day I don’t really spend time on it anymore. I treat it like e-mail mostly, I go on to see if I have anything new, say happy birthday, maybe send a few messages and then get off haha
Sure. Fads die out all the time.
Hm. I dunno know. How has Xanga survived, anyway?
@locomotiv - what’s on your mind?
I doubt that Facebook will ever become like Myspace because Myspace is fast becoming just like Facebook. I think they will combine and become FaecesSpace.
It can’t die, only deactivated.
100,000 people across the UK probably deactivated their accounts because we all have exams around this time. Loads of my friends deactivated theirs to stop them procrastinating
I don’t see Facebook becoming the graveyard MySpace is until something rises up to replace it. It’s probably a good thing that the novelty of social media is wearing off. Most of us have jobs and lives, after all.
I don’t think it’s going to die. At least not soon.
There’s to many people playing whatever games, uploading pictures and videos, doing whatever on Facebook. I had a MySpace but it was never near the way it was the way Facebook is now. I mean, there’s always seems like Facebook is changing or adding something to keep it fairly fresh. Unless everyone on Facebook suddenly decides to delete their Facebooks (and all at the same time), I don’t see Facebook going completely away.
It’s okay if it does. I’m tired of seeing people post “driving to work”, “I ate _______ for lunch!”
WTF. Who cares.
I think it will eventually, just not too sure as to when.
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I never used MySpace, so I can’t really answer your question, but I’m about fed up with FaceBook and all the spam applications that send out messages in your friends’ names. If my sisters weren’t on there, I’d probably shut down my account. As it is, I rarely use it.
Facebook is basically MySpace 2.0 so it stands to reason that there will be a MySpace 3.0, hopefully in the form of Google.
I think the way facebook practices is not good and liable to get themselves less “customers”.
I hope so
Well, I’m still using it. That’s because I keep it unannoying- I only have people on there that I actually talk to, and if I don’t, they get de-friended. This has caused some comments, but it’s my life, and I like to keep things uncluttered and useful.
Maybe one day.
I got bored with FB, I missed the boat whilst most of the people went to school with, joined pretty much within the first 3 years when it was opened to all, about 95% I think still update their profiles. I am from the UK
Also like someone has already said in the UK there are public exams taking places, GCSEs, A levels etc.
Now as for Myspace I did for my new years resolution not to used Myspace, Myspace was pretty much boring
Now as for Xanga, it cool, not many people used it now and that is cool.
The only reason I still have Facebook is because it’s the only way some people contact me, & the only way I can get messages out. I wish people would email more. It’s just as simple.
Facebook meets my needs pretty well. Although perhaps we will all become uncomfortable with the lack of privacy and quit.
Everything dies eventually, ha ha.
But so far through Myspace and now Facebook, Xanga still lives
eventually, yes. facebook reminded me of friendster when it first launched, and i’m pretty sure that’s died down.
I imagine it eventually will, but some other social networking site has to come up and take its place first. I’ve noticed over the years that there are new ones, but none of those are going to come close to competing with facebook any time soon.
not disappearing…now people might get upset again when facebook decides to change its setup (for the 444th time). I say you should be allowed to customize your facebook page though to whatever yearly setting…that would be the way to make facebook more fresh.
it’ll just become another site…
I think it will eventually. just not anytime soon.
maybe, but not until something else replaces it.
eventually, when something people like better comes along, it will
Uh, no. Well, at least not any time soon.
don’t worry, as long as user in malaysia are using it, it will be alive and kicking..
yeah i think it will die like myspace.
myspace was actually easier to use before they changed it.
a lot of the problem with facebook are privacy concerns. you cant ever permanently delete your account… oh, they tell you that you can and after 14 days its gone for good, but i just logged in with an account that i closed a year and a half ago. everything that i left there was still there, including all of my friends.
on a side note: xanga is “dying”… everyone is moving to tumblr for some weird reason.
It wont die, its too integral to how we live now. If you dont have facebook you’re actually at a disadvantage in lots of ways, its become almost as vital as our mobile phones now, and anyway it will carry on changing, so in 3 years it wont be like it is now.
yes i think facebook has a life span. it served a niche community when it first started. but it depends on fluff to keep it’s doors open. fluff like the games. if spock from star trek were to come here and see facebook, he would raise his eyebrows and wonder why do we put so much energy into something that truly is only a distraction from real life. we feel good thinking that everyone cares that “OMG, i have such a hangover….” don’t get me started on the millions of hours that people spend harvesting invisible crops. facebook is fun, but it also is a tranquilizer keeping us from something. the question is, “what is the something we are missing out on?”
@SerenaDante - The problem with the other social networks you’re seeing is that they are all “me too” sites that basically just emulate facebook or myspace. Most of them function like crap and none of them offer anything that is unique enough to compel people to use them. It’s a chicken and egg syndrome when it comes to social sites. What you first need to do is offer something that is useful to the individual that can then be expanded outward to their friends and other people that allow them to SocializeMore.com.
We’re working on something unique and alternative. But it’s going to take us some time.
Yup, they all die eventually. They’re all moving onto tumblr actually.
Then tumblr will die, and the next big thing will come along.
All I know is that when I was 12 xanga was the cool thing to have, and I love that tons of people still use it 8 years later.
But you assholes from myspace/facebook/tumblr better not venture back to xanga! WE DON’T WANT YOU!
I’m actually considering leaving facebook soon. It’s security and privacy issues are unacceptable.
I deactivated my FB a few times not because it became boring and dead like Myspace but because it was too much of a distraction — I was on it too often, LOL.
@roxics - Exactly. It’s also going to take you quite a bit of money, I imagine. Zuckerberg was lucky with how his site grew to be so popular, and I’m sure he didn’t realize that keeping it exclusive would make people want to be on it all the more. But I doubt a new social networking site will be able to use that same trick – if it’s exclusive to begin with, people will just stay on Facebook.
@SerenaDante - Yup, money does help. We could certainly roll it out faster if we (Dante and I) didn’t have full time jobs to contend with. We’re building the site live so every couple of weeks you see more happen. People are free to sign up now and post updates, but it’s just not exciting yet because right now it’s only a fraction of what it will become. But it’s being built to solve problems I’ve had on the internet and there isn’t anything out there like this.
One of the nice things right now is that there are a lot of angel investors and VC firms looking to pounce on anything “social” that shows some promise. So when the site does begin growing and more users are using it, it’s going to get a lot easier to find funding to give it a bigger jumpstart. But we also have 4 revenue models to help the site stay afloat. So it’s possible we may not need that outside funding. Still we’re about a month and a half away from being at twitter level functionality and a year away from surpassing xanga functionality if we can stay on our current path.
Yepp.
Probably
@bloggicus_maximus - That explains it. I got a friend request email from myspace about a month ago (haven’t logged on in like a year at least) and was thinking, “Really? Who’s using Myspace?” Turns out it was from some new “artist” musician. If nobody’s on myspace, then what’s the point of promoting your band there?
@Dustin_wind - Nothing is on my mind really. Or they asked me my age, or my gender or if i was married: i forgot which one it was. I think that all are invasive.
someday, yes!!!
Hmm, interesting. I don’t think it’ll die soon, but who knows. Eventually though, it will probably die.
@leaflesstree - MySpace has deals with record labels. That’s the only reason it’s around. Facebook is too deeply entrenched in global culture now, it would take something HUGE to knock it off. (I’m talking on a scale nobody’s even imagined yet.)
it’ll die when something new comes about. just like twitter will die. nothing lasts forever, really.
Right now someone in Las Vegas is placing a large bet that Lindsey Lohan will outlive facebook.
of course! … smt new will come up and then only the ‘older’ generation will use fb…
It’s a cyclical trend. You can’t have 100% progression. MySpace faced its demise because it was a site with crappy features and had a lot of obnoxious ads (yes, even more obnoxious than what’s on Facebook today). Plus, everytime I visited MySpace, the junk filter in my email seemed to break open like someone taking a knife to cut open the bottom of a full trash bag. MySpace also allowed users too much formatting freedom, which led to people creating pages that you feel you made a grave error visiting (much like here on Xanga!). Other than Twitter, Facebook doesn’t have much competition right now. In fact, all the social networking sites including MySpace (and Xanga) are following Facebook’s format.
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Everything dies eventually.
I only use it for getting homework, really. Not as crazy I had…
no… people have too much information saved in it with photos and wall post relationships etc. and also there is no real runner-up atm. Myspace and facebook are different in that myspace began to define what a social networking site was about but facebook really solidified it… facebook is far less disposable as of right now, than myspace was.
Facebook is also better about updating their site constantly in order to gain an edge, while myspace usually introduced new features after their competition (it took them months to up the number of pictures you could have- it used to be like 8, then 16, then 32, until they allowed albums I think, and then it was a while more before they really implemented photo tagging, meanwhile, facebook became one of the most popular photo sharing sites in the world)
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that’s because everyone from the UK uses tumblr
@ScarletMoth - You can export all that data from Facebook now. Which means it could potentially, easily be imported somewhere else.
Quite frankly facebook has become like a news hub for people to post news articles on there. I mean every popular website has its rise and its falls. In Puerto Rico its more of an addiction, every one from every municpal town has one. I loved myspace its was way cooler back then i wish the old myspace is back though. I still use it when i feel like it even if i have 2 facebooks account i think one day i will eventually ditch Facebook cause from the begining i’ve never been a fan of Facebook. So yeah I think people stay on facebook is cause of the games and of course the statuses of their loyal fans.
@locomotiv - yeah, facebook tends to do that. there’s days where i want to cyber punch them in the logo.
It eventually will die. Not now though. Later on, when something better comes along.
Oh, it probably will die eventually, but I don’t think it’s past its prime yet.
@CottonParchment - No, people like to talk to each other. It gets really good after you leave college and your friends live far away and you don’t talk to each other much, but you still like them.
I think that social sites like this are just full of issues. Half the reason I stopped using MySpace was because everyone around me, who barely even knew me took it upon themselves to feel like everything in my life was their business. I only use Facebook by popular demand of my family since all of them use it, but I really do hope that this happens. Social network = unwanted drama.
It would be nice to see Facebook die a quick yet painfully scandalous death. When I see an ad on TV that refers to a Facebook link instead of a regular Web site, I avoid whatever is being advertised like it is the Ebola virus. The same goes for anyone I meet who starts talking excitedly about her Facebook experiences.
facebook has the charm and durability of a phonebook.
@HypotheticallyOfCourse - Was twitter ever alive?!
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Nope. Facebook continues to offer new things to do…new ways to keep in touch with friends and family. New games. New apps. Nope. Absolutely not.
I’ve had a Facebook since 2005 so I was able to watch its membership climb, and now, it seems, decline. I think people of my age (around 20) are just getting tired of Facebook. I think it will eventually die just like Myspace, but that it still has a good few years left to it. I really like Facebook so I hope it sticks around. Even if it does “die,” I’m sure it’ll be around for a long time, just like Xanga is.
I like to think we’re the people who survived the Xanga apocalypse.
i hope not, or i’d have to go back to school to study something else..
I still check mine everyday, but I hardly post anything on there every day every hour like I use to. Everything dies eventually when something “better” comes along. I think xanga is the only thing that I shy away from every now and then and eventually come back to it.
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