When I began talks of moving out to SoCal to take a position as a VP of Product for MySpace and their parent company, Fox Interactive Media (sub of News Corp), I had a sinking feeling that it was a terrible idea.
That was back in 2007/8. It’s been pretty rough since then! I’m glad that didn’t work out.
The above graph is from Google Trends, and although traffic values would show something else, I believe this is about right and it will continue to decline:
I will say that it’s still hard to argue with the facts though. You know why? Because if the Church is on Twitter and not on Facebook then something is happening!
Though I don’t think MySpace and Twitter are direct comparisons, I think the conclusion that MySpace is on the way down is certainly correct. Unless Twitter completely changes directions and drastic changes functionality, I don’t think it will get that much more pervasive.
But you can rest assured, neither Facebook nor Twitter can avoid going the way of the webring, geocities, aol, nntp, icq, myspace, and whatever else. The webs are just to hungry for new addresses.
MySpace is definitely not going the right way. Is there anything it can do to stop that, though? Could there have been in 07/08? Anyone have any thoughts on that?
-Marshall Jones Jr.
I think they could have done something earlier. Now I think their only hope is to position themselves as a music related site. Incorporate last.fm features. Indie bands and new artists all still use myspace because of its functionality.
Myspace did not make any changes to its UI for years. It seemed that it could never get ahead of the curve. By the time they got some reliability with their server structure, Facebook had already stolen their momentum. To me it seemed that their parent company bought them and milked the cash cow till it was dry. Really a shame.
one thing is certain; things changes.
Today Twitter, Tomorrow Connections
Today Facebook, Tomorrow Google.Me
I think that GPS and local tracking like foursquare will still take off