Is this just a passing fad for MySpace? MySpace got created August 2003 by Tom Anderson- President and Chris Dewolfe became MySpace's starting CEO. MySpace known as the "Web 2.0" is a social networking site that is a user-submitted network that includes friends, blogs, music, profiles, groups, bulletins, TV, polls, forums, videos etc. It only took them 10 days from start to finish to actually launch MySpace. The archives in April 2005 showed activity that the site was connecting to users. From October 2005 through July 2007 the MySpace site was at a constant standstill. It was not until August 2007 the site progressed and the launch finally started to take off. Archives showed in the following months the site gradually grew with new users and by September 2008 it was at its peak. They reached their goal and got their 100 millionth user who in fact was from the Netherlands. After one month the record showed a decrease in numbers. June 2009 the numbers are back to where they were in 2007. So is it true that people want to stop using this site? Is it true that people do find MySpace boring? Is it true that MySpace is an immature site and only used for teenagers? People think now that Twitter and Facebook is the new MySpace. People are saying that MySpace is boring and dull and only teenagers use the site to cause drama among their peers. Last month MySpace had 124 million monthly visitors but there was a decline of 2% according to comScore, a marketing research company. In the same month Facebook increased in size and grew 16.6% with scoring 276 million users. What happens in October when MySpace contracts up? Will MySpace vanish and never return like Napster did? Facebook has extended all through Europe and standing strong while MySpace is trying to keep up. That dominance happened in only 12 months. MySpace was purchased for $580m by Rupert Murdoch showing the world that MySpace was dominating the World. Was it all just a big mistake? Did greed become a factor and they risked this all to soon? MySpace is not maturing while new and more advanced technology flies in and takes over. Will they get back on their feet moving in the right direction or will the money run out and it will be to late because greed was in the mix? So that leaves MySpace at a stand still with the economy and it is in our hands to figure out if we what craze we want to last, get better or fad away. Who will win.
Cites:
1. www.readwriteweb.com
2. http://topics.latimes.com/business/companies/myspace/2009-06
3. http://blogmaverick.com
4. http://eugenecho.wordpress.com
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace
Amber,
ReplyDeleteWhat do statements like "contracts up" and "showing the world that MySpace was dominating the World" mean? Be more clear and specific in your writing.
Also these citations aren't valid since most don't link to the actual page with the information on it.
Explain what:
http://eugenecho.wordpress.com
has to do with your blog entry.
The statement "Last month MySpace had 124 million monthly visitors but there was a decline of 2% according to comScore, a marketing research company. In the same month Facebook increased in size and grew 16.6% with scoring 276 million users."
is quoted directly from here without a citation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/29/myspace-facebook-bebo-twitter
"MySpace had 124 million monthly unique visitors last month, a decline of 2%, according to the marketing research company comScore. Facebook, by contrast, racked up 276 million unique visitors, an increase of 16.6%."
Near-direct quotes without a citation like this are considered plagiarism. You need to be much more careful citing sources.