Comments on: Murdoch’s Mistake?: Financial Times Chronicles The Fall Of MySpace http://www.mediaite.com/online/murdochs-mistake-financial-times-chronicles-the-fall-of-myspace/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: dianabug http://www.mediaite.com/online/murdochs-mistake-financial-times-chronicles-the-fall-of-myspace/#comment-12411 dianabug Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:41:20 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=53876#comment-12411 I have a son in college - Facebook was their domain - now all my friends my age have accounts - so I got an account and then started getting all these stupid emails about pillow fights and pokes and all sorts of stupidity. So I cancelled my account. But, alas, I could not see my son's photos (and now his fiancee's either) so I have an account again - but I don't have the friends that sent all the stupidity. It's not something I would ever have if it werent for my kids - so I agree that in fives years or so it will be declining - because the young folks will migrate to somewhere the old folks aren't. I have a son in college – Facebook was their domain – now all my friends my age have accounts – so I got an account and then started getting all these stupid emails about pillow fights and pokes and all sorts of stupidity. So I cancelled my account. But, alas, I could not see my son’s photos (and now his fiancee’s either) so I have an account again – but I don’t have the friends that sent all the stupidity. It’s not something I would ever have if it werent for my kids – so I agree that in fives years or so it will be declining – because the young folks will migrate to somewhere the old folks aren’t.

]]> By: m http://www.mediaite.com/online/murdochs-mistake-financial-times-chronicles-the-fall-of-myspace/#comment-12355 m Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:02:48 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=53876#comment-12355 Myspace was doomed when NewsCorp bought. It really only had one way to go: downwards. It's obviously a horrible website in so many aspects, inferior to Facebook in every way. It hasn't developed or progressed in the five years since then. I've been through plenty of virtual communities throughout my life time and if there's one thing in common with all of them is that eventually they all hit a ceiling and just start to decline. Any virtual community can be hot property, but they rarely last for a long time. Facebook isn't there just yet, but I can tell that there's a lot of sentiment growing about people's disgust of it. I think in five years we'll be talking about the decline of Facebook. If I was Zuckerman I'd sell it today and enjoy the rest of my days in luxary. Myspace was doomed when NewsCorp bought. It really only had one way to go: downwards. It’s obviously a horrible website in so many aspects, inferior to Facebook in every way. It hasn’t developed or progressed in the five years since then.

I’ve been through plenty of virtual communities throughout my life time and if there’s one thing in common with all of them is that eventually they all hit a ceiling and just start to decline. Any virtual community can be hot property, but they rarely last for a long time.

Facebook isn’t there just yet, but I can tell that there’s a lot of sentiment growing about people’s disgust of it. I think in five years we’ll be talking about the decline of Facebook. If I was Zuckerman I’d sell it today and enjoy the rest of my days in luxary.

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