So it's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.
Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
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Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#52Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
> Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. I disagree. Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor. For those of us old enough to have started on myspace and switched to facebook, it really was pretty se…
> Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor.
But that's not what makes a social network. User profiles have existed since the beginning of the internet. A social network is a place to see and be seen. But this requires people--the more the better (usually). Facebook for better or worse, has already won this game.
I don't really get this idea of facebook being "stagnant". Perhaps they've already refined the concept of general social networking to its peak. It's an odd idea in SV that a site has to constantly roll out new "user experiences" to remain relevant. Facebook is a platform for attention-whoring. They do that just fine. The users themselves create the experiences.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#53Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
> Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. I disagree. Firstly, you make it sound as if filling out some information about yourself (don't we do that all the time anyways?), posting some pictures, and updating your status is some overwhelming endeavor. For those of us old enough to have started on myspace and switched to facebook, it really was pretty se…
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Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#54Until Facebook starts letting people make their profiles have white text on a yellow background with autoplaying music, I'm not too worried about it going anywhere.
If I deleted my Facebook, I would be cut off socially from so many people. My core group of friends would still be in contact with me, but the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time.
Even with the people I see every day, the ease of collaboration with events and groups on Facebook makes it more than worth it to have it.
If you hate the newsfeed, then don't look at it. If you're upset that not all of the people that "like" your page don't see your band's post, you're part of the problem.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#55Totally bored of it, nothing really interesting, just a marketing machine...
Only if you decide that's what you want it to be by "liking" hundreds of pages.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#56Well, people's engagement with facebook has certainly declined from its peak years ago. However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation. There's plenty of room for new entrants that take slices of your friends and optimize that experience. For example, another network for just your family... offering a close, intimate exper…
"However, all your "friends" are on it. Nobody wants to go back through that process on an upstart network. Nobody has the energy or motivation."
Another possibility is that the next innovation for social networks will be effortless friend adding & management. I've never had a problem adding friends, but I find manually dealing with lists/groups/circles/whatever to be enormously painful so they're never current. The idea of separate accounts for separate "slices" of friends is appealing partly because it's both transparent and stable (ie Facebook can't change what's in my Twitter account), but it can't be the best possible approach, right?
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#57Facebook is going to forge a new path to irrelevance, not take the same path as MySpace. People will stop using Facebook because (1) they outgrow it, (2) they get tired of it, or (3) it lost its usefulness. I don't believe another app will take its place. Rather, I think an existing app/platform is already Facebook's biggest competitor. And it's one you've been using for 30 years. Email.
It may be different for different cohorts, but for my social circle, SMS is the de facto communication medium. I deleted my Facebook account over a year ago and still keep up with friends, plan events, etc., all via text message.
Thus, there really was no downside in terms of being "out of the loop", while I get the benefit of not feeling like shit because I'm continually inundated with self-promotion posts that make others (most of whom I barely know) look like they are doing more important things than me.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#58> Finally I strongly believe at one day there will be a decentralized social network, based on Open Source tools. How about tent.io ?
This looks cool. Another guy has showed me: https://joindiaspora.com/ which also looks pretty interesting. Thanks!
My sarcasm detector is broken, I think... :-/
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#59Until Facebook starts letting people make their profiles have white text on a yellow background with autoplaying music, I'm not too worried about it going anywhere. If I deleted my Facebook, I would be cut off socially from so many people. My core group of friends would still be in contact with me, but the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time. Even with the peopl…
> the hundreds of friends and acquaintances I've made throughout the years would get lost to time
As they should.
Re: Is Facebook becoming the next MySpace?
#60Totally bored of it, nothing really interesting, just a marketing machine...
Only if you decide that's what you want it to be by "liking" hundreds of pages.
Wrong. Regardless of your volume of "likes," it's a cluttered mess with dozens of best guess advertisements and a river of promoted crap. AOL 2.0