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The bad news is: users don't like amazing, rare, or incredible things (at least along some axes of those concepts). MySpace was an eyesore of anything-goes colo
by fixermark 9y ago
The bad news is: users don't like amazing, rare, or incredible things (at least along some axes of those concepts). MySpace was an eyesore of anything-goes color scheme and design that made for a headache-inducing trip. Facebook brought uniformity to that information set that was a welcome change.
There were good things about MySpace, but there's a reason FB and its ilk came to dominate the user adoption numbers.
- kristopolous 9y agoThat's not conclusive. The primary reason for MySpace's userbase crashing was the founders exiting after the News Corp acquisition. If Facebook had been acquired instead and stopped innovating at the same time they wouldn't have things such as the like button, status updates, or feeds. They brought those things in frantically to knock off Twitter just like they've been knocking off snapchat recently. Users these days seem to be totally delighted by decking out selfies with icons and tacky animations. They seem to be completely alright, and by in large prefer it when videos play at full volume by complete surprise, automatically when scrolling and flipping. Be weary of projecting your personal aesthetic tastes on the population at large