Social Media

Myspace used to be the number 1 social networking website, but now it’s almost scary how quickly it’s declining in popularity. Myspace was a platform targetted at the younger generations, and up until the past couple of years it worked. Hitwise stats released last month with a comparison of MySpace and Facebook and they don’t paint a pretty picture for Myspace.

Less is more.

That’s the approach Facebook took when developing their system, it was a winner not only with the former myspace users, but also with older generations, some who, before now had never heard or used social networking. Professional high profile businesses would never, in a million years have dreamt of publicising a corporate myspace page, facebook had a universal clean design that also provided a platform to easily stay in touch with it’s fans. In recent months myspace has realised this and started pushing newer layouts and suggesting profile themes to help avoid seizure inducing animated backgrounds and music interupting the music you was most likely listening to before you loaded the page.

There is one thing

Myspace has one good thing over Facebook and that is it’s connection with bands and music.  Myspace has well over 15 million signed and unsigned bands and the url for these bands is usually always put on promotional material at gigs or festivals. Why hasn’t facebook done the same? Well the straight forward answer is, it’s not what facebook was designed for, and I don’t think they ever will. Myspace is clearly heading to becoming primarily a music and artist website.

My prediction

Probably a bold statement to make, but in my opinion I predict Myspace will loose users to the point that users will eventually all move over to facebook as a way to keep in contact with friends, but users will still stick with myspace for music until something better comes along.