Myspace seemed to start the "trend" of social networking sites. It was so popular because you were able to create your own profile, making it personalized to your likings. You could put music on your page, change the layout and etc. Sometime around last year, having a large profile with lots of stuff on it was on its way out, the new cool thing was to be bare and have little information on it. This relates to the look of facebook, simple and clean. Myspace soon became harder to use as it was rapidly changing to become more liek facebook. Myspace is still stealing Facebook's ideas trying to keep people from deleting their pages. It almost seems out of nowhere that people wanted nothing to do with myspace anymore. As soon as FB allowed everyone to join everyone wanted to be on it. I think this has to do with how facebook was so selective when it started. Myspace is now "for kids" and the more adult thing to do is have a facebook. Everyone seems to be makign the change, but is it just a trend or do people really liek the superior site functionality. I still have my myspace and it is unfortunate everyone is leaving it, I'm not entirely ready to give on it yet, but it seems as if Facebook has take the lead in the social networking race.
for more information check out these linnks...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800803.html
http://gigaom.com/2010/02/24/the-slow-death-of-a-social-network/
http://social-networking-tagging.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_death_of_myspace
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