Facebook dethrones MySpace as social network

MySpace announces Mashup with Facebook, letting users port their information

By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld
November 18, 2010 04:33 PM ET

While the battle may have been won some time ago, MySpace seems to be calling "uncle" in its competition with Facebook.
On Thursday, MySpace unveiled what the company is calling a "Mashup with Facebook ." The mashup basically is a connection across the two sites that will enable users to port their likes and interests from their Facebook profiles and have that information populate the content on their MySpace pages. The feature is billed as allowing MySpace users to create a personalized stream of entertainment content.
The new feature begins rolling out worldwide today.

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While the battle may have been won some time ago, MySpace seems to be calling "uncle" in its competition with Facebook.

On Thursday, MySpace unveiled what the company is calling a "Mashup with Facebook ." The mashup basically is a connection across the two sites that will enable users to port their likes and interests from their Facebook profiles and have that information populate the content on their MySpace pages. The feature is billed as allowing MySpace users to create a personalized stream of entertainment content.

The new feature begins rolling out worldwide today.
With these steps, MySpace is giving up on being a social network. While MySpace was an Internet pioneer, it was eclipsed by Facebook .


In mid-2009, online researcher ComScore reported that then-five-year-old Facebook attracted 70.278 million unique visitors in the U.S., just ahead of MySpace's total of 70.237 million. In April, MySpace had nearly 71 million unique visitors compared with Facebook's 67.481 million.
At the same time, Facebook had more than 307 million unique visitors worldwide, while MySpace attracted less than half of that total -- 123 million.


Facebook, the new kid on the block, had eclipsed MySpace both in the U.S. and globally.
And the space between them has widened. Recently, Facebook announced that it has more than 500 million global users . MySpace, in turn, has focused more on being a destination for users to get information on music and movies.


Today, during the press call, Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, did not refer to the site as a social network. Instead, he called it "one of the largest entertainment experiences on the Web."
Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said Thursdady's announcement is symbolic of MySpace's leaving the social networking space.


"This is a recognition of an old defeat," Gottheil said. "MySpace stopped being the place to find and connect to friends a long time ago. This is reinforcing its value as what it is, a publishing site. Facebook is not, and will not be, a publishing site. So this partnership helps define and distinguish the two, and makes it easier for users to be active members of both sites, using each on for what it does well."


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The Social Networking Tools

The modern trends of social networking on the internet can easily be used as a tool for assessing the society as it exists today. The social networking tool serves the purpose of connecting peoples of the world. This is possible by just sitting in the comfort of your own home or office and using your computer to communicate to all corners of the world.

Now people use Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace are all the different types of popular network tools that are preferred by most users. They have the advantage of providing opportunities to locate even old friends, widening your communication with new people, and sharing hot news and photos with people you know all over the world.

Many of these are very interesting especially when you begin to use any of these networking tools by opening an account there.

The benefits discussed above are very clear but people tend to overlook the fact that some of these sites could also have some disadvantages. The very first one that comes to mind is that they deprive you of privacy if they are not handled with care and very wisely. In order to protect self from very bad experiences while using the social networking sites; one need to follow these given guidelines.

For purposes of protecting your privacy, desist from adding just any person you barely know to your list. It is true that social networking can go out of hand sometimes. This can easily happen if you keep adding people who are barely known to you in real life to your list.

For those who do not mind socializing with all and sundry, it would be fine, but this can go out of hand if new people you hardly know can keep interfering with what is entered in your status. That is why in order to avoid such people, it is reasonable that you do not allow any addition to your list of anyone barely known.
Another factor is that you do not cover too much detail. You would assume that most people like to see the things you say about you every time you update your status, but this might just be the opposite as some people get annoyed instead.

If you do not wish to be deleted by others from their networks, it is better to moderate your behavior by putting only one or two updates at reasonable intervals. This will prevent you from interfering with other people's space.

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