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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. That’s even more true in a social network whose users are often less web savvy and thrown by major UI changes as well as concerned about privacy issues.

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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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5 Simple Ways Small Businesses Can Ace Social Listening in 2019

Waxing UnLyrical

Identify Relevant Groups, Communities. Groups and communities enhance the feeling of community , which is core to social media. People form social media groups and communities to discuss matters they care about. Using our example above, there are lots of groups advocating green living on different social networks.

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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.

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Backing Up Your Own Social Data

Small Business Mavericks

And just in case you don’t believe me, you should read this article about a recent MySpace foible. It seems that MySpace may be plotting its own early demise. What if, during the redesign, Facebook takes away the ability to create groups and build pages? Well, that’s what happened at MySpace. And that stings.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

And MySpace is for “young people&# right? Though the available data conflicts, there is nothing to indicate that MySpace users are predominantly younger than users of other social networks, and if anything, Twitter is now more popular than MySpace with younger age groups. You can see the article here.

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The State of Social Media In The UK

Mindjumpers

I feel, these statistics can help you figure out which network has the right demographics for your brand, age and income group. 25-34 year olds are now the largest age group on Facebook as we enter 2012, with users under 17 years making up just 5% of the user base. Our data sources for this article were Xposure and Nielson. The losers.