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Things are looking grim for the once king of social networking, MySpace. The site's numbers have been plummeting since Facebook and Twitter started to really gain traction. In December of 2008, MySpace had 43 billion page views. Last month they were down to only 12 billion according to ComScore. But on October 15, MySpace is expected to take one last stab at this whole social networking thing with a complete redesign of the site.
The new design is being called Project Futura internally. It is described as a much lighter interface. It will have less clutter and will focus on the news stream. Sound like any wildly successful website you know? Parent company News Corp. is expected to be keeping a close eye on the project. It's no secret that the value of MySpace has plummeted since it was acquired.
Can a redesign, however needed, stop the bleeding? It might just be too late for MySpace. With Facebook and Twitter both growing by leaps and bounds, News Corp. might be looking at an unpleasant reality in the coming months.
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Kevin_Eleven
September 18, 2010 at 3:52pm
...they need to remove all of the stupid teenage attention whores.
knighttoday
September 18, 2010 at 11:30am
I personally will cease using services such as My Space when a large corporate monster like News Corp buys it up. The one tool still available to the comman person, the consumer, is to cease using goods and services as a way of expressing displeasure. I'm sick and tired of corporate america abusing it's privilege for a fast buck. ALL Corporations rely on consumers. No exceptions. If only, we the consumer. would get our heads out of where-ever they may be and utilize this power we could control this more. But alas, such is not the case. Companies like Google start out in our good graces by respecting us, the consumer, and then over time the greed factor moves in. Coporations are just a bunch of people making decisions so it all comes down to people disrespecting others.
I give no hope to My Space as News Corp should not be supported.
gripssl
September 17, 2010 at 10:36pm
MYspace, Facebook, Twitter, are all wastes of time. I already waste enough time as it is. I had a myspace account when it was all the rage, but it was the basc of pages. I didn't bling it out like everyone else promoting themselves hoping to get found.
Myspace could reinvent itself to show me how to cheat on my taxes and not get caught and I still won't have any part of it. I rather waste time gaming than blogging about myself like anyone else cares.
I suppose networking websites serve a purpose but not for me.
sniggler
September 17, 2010 at 3:44pm
I personally de-activated my facebook account after having one for several years. The lack of privacy is growing at a frightening scale, and the reality of it is for every 1 person you have on your facebook, 2 more will be friends with that person who happen to hate your guts.
Not to mention they own everything you upload to it, and can use anything they want for any purpose. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone I know in a Pepsi ad one day.
Zuckerberg has a shady reputation as it is, and Facebook has grown into an absolute monster imo. No-one should have that kind of influence and power at his age. Facebook has been around for long enough, it's time for the next big thing. We all seem to forget that MySpace was once as big, if not bigger than the current social networking giant.
Have we really grown so daft as to allow a personal information harvester created by some college kid become as integral a part of our lives and necesseary to our households as toilet paper?
Everyone these days is so busy updating their facebook, they're doing it from their computers, their cell phones, their ipods, wherever they can get connected, they're changing status every 10 seconds. People are dying in car crashes from this crap!
Success and innovation didn't make Zuckerberg as rich and popular as he is. Backstabbing and playing off of people's stupidity did.
Die already Facebook!
FrancesTheMute
September 17, 2010 at 6:55pm
I really don't understand why people are so up in arms about the whole Facebook Privacy thing (or lack thereof, as it were). Seriously, everything on my Facebook profile is readily available elsewhere in the public domain so I couldn't care less if someone sees it all on Facebook.
zythman
September 18, 2010 at 3:59am
I agree, too many people are spending too much time on FaceBook. Every minute spent updating your profile or posting stuff there or writing on someone's wall in the hope of finding ex-school buds, gfs or anyone else who remotely remembers your name and sends you an invite to join their growing list of 1200 friends, is another minute wasted that you 'll never get back. Better to spend it on sports, gaming, betting, or learning something useful like another language or new hack trix. Who needs a hundred old friends like barnacles or dead branches sucking bits of info off one another? Better to remain somewhat reclusive, elusive, and unfacebooked. Polish up on what distinguishes you from them. Yes, keep your private life private and your opinions off facebook. But why not take it a step further and delete yourself from fazebook and twit altogether, to save those minutes, weeks and years for a higher quality of life?
Ashton2091
September 17, 2010 at 8:52pm
I second that. If you want something to be kept private...how about don't put it on Facebook. Duh, that goes for any networking site. So calm down dude. It's not that serious.
