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Things aren't looking so hot for MySpace, the once dominant social networking site that has since taken a distant backseat to Facebook. According to comScore, MySpace's traffic declined 49 percent in the course of a year, dropping from 6.5 million visitors in May 2009 to a mere 3.3 million in May 2010.
Adding insult to injury, Facebook is in a celebratory mood after having recently reached 500 million registered users. That's 400 million more than MySpace claimed at its peak, and despite a recent revamp of the site, it doesn't appear as though MySpace is going to be able to turn things around.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. paid $580 million for MySpace back in 2005, and in the past six months alone has lost two chief executives.
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flash739
July 23, 2010 at 5:52pm
I have to say I love facebook. if for anything, because it is where I met my now wife and mother of my first child. :) Thank you Rupert!
gothliciouz
July 23, 2010 at 5:14pm
myspace is horrible all those flashy gif images causes one core of my cpu to run at 100%
imagonex
July 23, 2010 at 3:21pm
I never liked MySpace. Too many spammers. Too many bogus/fake profiles. Too many morons/idiots. The gaudy, awful, eyesore profiles of some of those morons. The annoying overbloated crap.
I can go on.
I will not shed a tear if they disappear off the face of the World Wide Web.
Mighty BOB!
July 23, 2010 at 2:17pm
I'm glad Facebook doesn't allow HTML customization of your pages. That was a prime reason why I refused to ever get a Myspace and chose Facebook in the first place. 99% of the pages were tacky eyesores with a hundred sparkling .gif images and ridiculous color schemes and typefaces.
weakerthans4
July 23, 2010 at 2:06pm
I have to say that you hit the nail on the head. It was so much better when they encouraged users to be creative with web coding, now it's the same mindless dribble on each page. Then to go ahead and block playlist.com so they could put their b***s*** advertisements up, just to turn a profit, that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Well I hope they're happy because now they have no users and little profit and I can't say I really care if they stay or fold at this point.
The murdoch group made myspace far too geared towards children and young teens, but then didn't do enough to prevent sexual predators from stalking these kids; so in turn, their parents don't allow them to use the site. They just kinda half-assed everything and ran the company aground.
Good bye and good riddance myspace, you won't be missed...
Dustn525
July 23, 2010 at 1:35pm
I can't speak for all the user's Myspace has lost, but one thing Myspace did to piss me off was doing that "Profile 2.0" crap. You used to be able to make your profile look however you wanted to using HTML, but they took that away. Blocked Playlist.com. Their servers suck, the site would always be so un-responsive. That said, f*** Myspace. You can't customize your Facebook page with HTML, but then, they never offered that option in the first place. Myspace gave me something I liked, then took it away from me. That's BS.
