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Am I the only who thinks a large reason why MySpace lost to Facebook was design? MySpace just gave way to much flexibility to the users to modify the look and
by akmiller 16y ago
Am I the only who thinks a large reason why MySpace lost to Facebook was design?
MySpace just gave way to much flexibility to the users to modify the look and feel of their pages that it just got way to busy and very difficult to look at.
In some respects I think it was MySpace's business proposition to allow users to create their own personal spaces on the web easily, whereas, Facebook's goal was more to connect you to your friends. In that sense MySpace followed through, although that follow through seemed to lead to their demise!
- colomon 16y agoI logged into MySpace the other day for the first time in quite a while. And wow, it's butt-ugly, hard to navigate around, and within ten minutes of logging in I had eight MySpace-based spam e-mails sitting in my account. In short, it's wildly less-pleasant to use than Facebook.
- Goladus 16y agoI don't think myspace's greater flexibility was its downfall. The problem was that over time, the end-user experience stagnated while the company focused on maximizing revenue from ads and such. Based on comments above, it seems that while facebook was busy introducing incremental social networking improvements myspace was busy trying to make users click more so that more ads would load. Myspace had some of the most annoying ads on the web. Heaven forbid you tried to use the site without adblock. I think that was the bigger problem. Had they continued to focus on improving the end-user experience rather than extracting every last bit of value, they might still be a viable competitor to facebook. The freedom to customize would be one of a very few features facebook could not easily copy.