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Wait, Facebook is MySpace?

Janet Fouts

On Twitter today Myspace is trending, not because it’s about Myspace but because people are suggesting Facebook is doomed to the same fate as Myspace. Okay FB, I don’t need your “help” with categorizing news feeds and creating lists. Which annoys you more, the news feed or the ticker?

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks. However, I joined MySpace in 2006 to network with individuals who refused to use Facebook and to return to my liberal ways of accepting a lot more friend requests than I normally would. > click.

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Paying Homage to the Social Technographics Ladder

Ignite Social Media

As I understand it, the trio at Forrester built the Social Technographics framework for their excellent book, Groundswell , and it was a helpful way for those of us in the space to explain how people were engaging with sites like Friendster, MySpace, Blogger and Facebook.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. Classmates.com and MySpace are two social networks in their decline stage. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. With hype and buzz, MySpace started to grow. Like this post?

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New Facebook Profiles – A Great Thing For Facebook’s Revenue Stream

Mindjumpers

You may have noticed in your feed how people have started to use the new profile and also updated their profile information. I think the platform has lacked to full-fill the promise of narrowing your target down on specific groups – especially on the small markets – this due to users not updating their profiles.

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6 social media marketers on the future of social messaging

Sprout Social

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. Today, social media marketers aren’t solely focused on strategizing content for posts and social feeds.

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A More Elegant Question About Facebook

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It was (if we're going to be honest) just another online social network in a world where MySpace was dominating. Big, big steps away from news feeds, status updates, emoticons and a place to share our memes and pictures of food and cats. facebook groups. At the time, Facebook was not a better mousetrap or something original.