What Ever Happened to MySpace?

Recently the founder of MySpace spoke out about what MySpace could have been. He said to the Wall Street Journal, "We just messed up." Murdoch told the journalist they were ahead of everyone. Before taking bad advice and making the wrong financial decisions they had big plans. They were planning to add video feature, three months before YouTube. Murdoch still blames himself, saying if he would have stuck to his gut they would be surpassing YouTube, and Facebook. He was planning to make MySpace into everything the two successful companies now have. 

To me, it is crazy to think of not having Facebook as big as it is now, and to have another social media site. It would be interesting to see what MySpace would have been if they were to follow out with their original plans. 

Did you ever use MySpace? Do you wish they would have continued to excel, or are you glad Facebook was on the rise? 

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  • Great topic and well done!

  • I have never used Myspace. I can't decide if Facebook is better, because I haven't used Myspace before. I would guess that if it had done what the founder said it would do it would be more popular than Facebook and YouTube.

    • Yeah, it is card to compare the 2 when we don't know what MySpace would be like today!

  • no i never used myspace. It is up to them if they want to excel. I fine that Facebook was risen.

  • I never used myspace so I wouldn't know how it was used. 

  • I never used MySpace but I think it is kind of interesting to imagine what it would be like if MySpace was the big social media website and not Facebook.

  • I have never had MySpace, but the world would be a lot different today if there was no facebook or youtube. It would be interesting to see what MySpace would've turned in to.

    • True, I wonder if MySpace would have been as successful as YouTube is with their videos. 

  • I never had MySpace but it would be interesting to see what it would be like now.

  • I have never used MySpace before so I don't really know that well what it was like when it was popular. I agree, I think it'd be a lot different not having websites like Facebook or YouTube as popular as they are today. I do think it would be interesting to see what it would have been like to have MySpace excel.

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