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MySpace. I read somewhere that a few years ago, their staff were walking around wearing t-shirts emblazoned with "Your Mom has a Facebook Page". The article wa
by IsaacL 16y ago
MySpace.
I read somewhere that a few years ago, their staff were walking around wearing t-shirts emblazoned with "Your Mom has a Facebook Page". The article was about how they were trying to position themselves as a more youthful, 'alternative' social network.
Don't think it really worked, though there's certainly still a lot of bands on there. Besides, if some upstart did recast themselves as young and hip and Facebook as old and fuddy-duddy, Facebook could reframe themselves as classic and sophisticated (similar to the changing brands of Pepsi and Coca-Cola).
- john_shanks 16y agoI could see that happening. There's a decent argument to be made that network effects would make a duopoly the efficient outcome for major social networks like FB and Myspace. As people get better at, and better tools for, segmenting their lives on FB, I don't see why FB couldn't persist.