For the longest time, Myspace has been the social networking site that many kids, teens, and young adults have used to communicate with each other. However, Facebook has recently become the new Myspace and is rapidly taking over.
Myspace is targeted toward a younger crowd of kids than Facebook. With Myspace, people have more room to personalize their pages with decorative backgrounds, icons, music playlists, and fun animations. Lots of middle school and high school students prefer Myspace to Facebook because it is less complex and because the majority of their friends are signed up for Myspace.
For privacy reasons, Facebook is a safer site because there isn't as much spam and soliciting. Myspace allows people to make fake profiles and go to the search to type in specific ages, locations, genders, and orientations in order to find people so they can send them spam.
Facebook allows people to make public specific information to friends, friends of friends only, certain networks, certain friends, and much more. The Myspace privacy settings are much more limited.
Facebook makes it much easier to communicate with friends because there are networks and friends can be categorized into groups based upon schools. James Brangert, a 24-year-old insurance banker, claims he uses Facebook over Myspace because "everyone else uses it and it has a more modern feel and isn't as cluttered with music, wallpapers, and imitation profiles".
Since Facebook is targeted towards college kids and above, Myspace is slowly starting to fade out as Facebook takes over. People can sign up for their local network, or a school network, more people choose Facebook because it is easier to find people they know, and meet people that either go to school with them or live nearby. Annie Viola, a 19-year-old Green River student, confidently stated, " I think Myspace is dead to our generation. It may still be alive to younger kids, but for college age kids and up, Facebook is definitely the new Myspace."
Facebook came up with many of the applications first, with Myspace later following with the same applications, just tweaked a little bit. Facebook was the first networking site to come up with a chat so that people could instantly talk with each other.
Bumper stickers, which are little pictures or quotes, were first created by Facebook to allow friends to send them to each other so they can be published on their pages. Facebook basically came up with many of the ideas first, then Myspace came and put the same types on their page so they wouldn't lose all their users. Time will only tell if Facebook will always dominate in popularity within networking sites or if there will eventually be a new Facebook…
Is Myspace still your space?
Facebook is rapidly taking over the social networking world
Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Updated: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 04:11
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I was reading an article on how Myspace actually finds a lot more use with minorities, especially those undereducated, in poverty. Facebook is in use in more urban areas and by those with higher educations. The point of the article was to show how cultural boundaries and separations even show up on the internet, the supposed great equalizer.