The End of Myspace? Your friends are boring
Congrats MySpace! You have ousted Yahoo as the #1 site on the internet! Huzzahs and handshakes all arou–
Not so fast MySpace! Don’t think because you have the biggest site on the intarweb that you can just run out and buy that shiny new gold lamborghini with bald eagle interior. Oh no my friend. The end is nigh, you just don’t know it yet.
But Jeff, everyone who’s anyone has a MySpace page, how can MySpace go under? Never! Can’t happen! The end of the internet!
Not likely. MySpace will probably not go under with proper management, technology upgrades, a better interface for users to post and format their thoughts. It can last a good long while (at least until the next MySpace or Web 3.0)
The main reason that MySpace can only go down from here is your friends are boring. Let’s think for a minute: you create a MySpace page, you go crazy and friend everyone and their brother. Oh, I found my high school friends - let’s add all of them. Oh, I found a few of my college buddies - let’s add all of them and their friends. Awesome - I found that random guy I saw on the street. Ok, I have this page set up. Now…GO MySpace - GO! … Why isn’t anything happening?
I understand some people sit on MySpace all day and read about their friends and their friends friends and their…well you get the point, but MySpace in general is for two purposes:
- Bands to connect with artists - which I think is fantastic and I love MySpace for.
- People without a life.
Prove my wrong about #2 in the comments. I dare you.
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Precisely why I don’t use MySpace anymore.
Several people I know have a circle of friends that keep in touch through MySpace. These are groups that know each other already in the real world, but use virtual social networking to communicate because they don’t all live in the same city. They had been using some other technology previously, say a bulletin board or listserv, but now they have this tool and it is much easier to share pictures, comments, stories, and plans with the whole group.
i couldn’t agree with you more. people don’t agree with me. it’s nice to have someone on my side.
myspace was only fun in 2005. After you have done these social sites. first friendster, then myspace, facebook.. you realize it’s a waste of time. I deleted my page, something most myspace users can’t bring themselves to do. Go on I dare you. Fact 1: I have sex with my boyfriend more often now that I am on the computer less, Fact 2: My friends call me now to invite me out instead of assuming I checked myspace and caught their invite there. Fact 3: myspace is not even good for artist because it is too time consuming, they end up writing less good material and wasting energy online. Fact 4: myspace is bad for relationships. Fact 5: I promise you that myspace will go under, it was like a ghost town, like ive never seen it all summer. People are bored and boring I couldnt agree with you more.