I chose to write about the complete obliteration of
Myspace. I remember converting to Facebook in high school simply because
everyone else was doing it. I look back now and realize there was much more to
the mass conversion from Myspace to Facebook. I found an article from the
Huffington Post online (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX46e4GtlXM)
and
found many reasons for the decline of the once super popular social networking
site. Myspace was bought by News Corp in 2005 for the hefty price of $500
million. More recently the companies CEO’s have abandoned it and it was sold to
News Corp for $35 million. This huge loss was mainly due to the fact that the
creators of the site were well versed in entertainment rather than
technology. Because of this, Myspace
could not keep up with the social web it had helped create. Myspace was too
concerned with its revenues instead of the users experience, which led to
sloppily made apps that were not created by experts in their field. These
additions created a crowded atmosphere that made it hard to operate the
website. Along with this sloppiness there were sloppy people crowding up the
website as well. Many wannabe C list celebrities swarmed to the site looking
for their fifteen minutes of fame. This led to mass amounts of inappropriate,
eye catching media; mainly naked photos. Younger users would be exposed to
pornographic material which led to the dubbing of Myspace as a ‘virtual
ghetto’. Facebook offered up a more personalized streamlined look to relieve
users. To read more about the reasons for the failure of Myspace you can check
out the link
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