Comments on: Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way

By: Favorieten en bookmarks voor 15th januari tot 17th januari | Cafe del Marketing

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:06:12 +0000

[...] Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way - [...]

By: 7 Simple MySpace App Ideas « A Startup A Day

7 Simple MySpace App Ideas « A Startup A Day — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:15:28 +0000

[...] In spite of their tremendous growth, MySpace is still over four times as large as Facebook. [...]

By: Interesting Blog post on the decline of Social Networking 2.0 « UND HON 392’s Weblog

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:48:52 +0000

[...] social networking sites. There seems to be contradicting numbers around. TechCrunch, for example, showed in January that Facebook is still growing in traffic, while MySpace is going down. According to Mashable [...]

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:15:05 +0000

In making up valuations for the companies, you seem to have overlooked the *rest of the world outside of the U.S.* According to traffic from Alexa.com, fewer than 25% of Facebook users are in the U.S., compared to 44% for MySpace. Internationally, volume of traffic to MySpace and Facebook are almost identical, but Facebook is rising rapidly. MySpace currently has about 3x as many accounts as Facebook, but it’s not clear how many of those are active. In Canada, for example, MySpace has sunk to a rank around #13, while Facebook is at #2 (these ranks are a little messy because domains count separately — e.g., google.com and google.ca are measured individually).

By: Poker Sharks

Poker Sharks — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:28:37 +0000

Myspace wins on spam hits alone - those figures are so skewed im surprised they made it onto techcrunch.

By: sd

sd — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:55:30 +0000

i am interested to know the demographic of facebook vs myspace users.. ne1 knows?

By: sd

sd — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:47:35 +0000

so how do ppl think facebook worths 15 bil?

By: Happy

Happy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:14:50 +0000

^^^^

And B4UParty.com is the friendly girl next door who has cuteness AND personality…

By: Scarlatescu.ro » MySpace vs. Facebook

Scarlatescu.ro » MySpace vs. Facebook — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:15:50 +0000

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By: Tayfun Ozturkmen

Tayfun Ozturkmen — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:28:52 +0000

Facebook has been ruined with the apps (these need to be regulated). Myspace has been ruined with spam, terrible interface design and a team of shit house coders.

Myspace is successful because it allows boys n girls to flirt in atmosphere that seems casual and not a desperate internet dating site. But the fact is it is dominated by singles!

Facebook is terrible for singles. Let’s face it the chicks always look hotter on myspace its a running joke.

If I had a lot of cash I’d put some celebrity endorsement behind a myspace clone that was well built but still allowed for complete customization (its ugly, abused, but it draws people back). As someone said above - facebook has no personality.

Facebook is the smart kid in the corner at the party. Polite. Pleasant. BORING.

Myspace is the jock cracking Jock or the pretentious attention whore. Everyone hates them but they are ENTERTAINING because they produce DRAMA.

By: 1 Million in 365 Days

1 Million in 365 Days — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:10:42 +0000

Facebook will rise above Myspace soon. It’s like comparing Apple to Microsoft.
I’d much rather Facebook on a Mac than Myspace on Vista!:) It’s choosing creativity, fun, imagination and what not over PC!

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:36:17 +0000

Benoit,
I got the same thing…never set up a profile and got the same email.

If Facebook just had better support for bands they would be much better off. That’s the only reason I ever touch a myspace page: to listen to music (adblock enabled of course). I can’t believe that many people can tolerate such a hideous site. Everyone’s profile looks like a web page from Geocities or Angelfire back in 1997. Apparently no one in the MySpace demographic realized you shouldn’t tile a photograph as a web page background.

By: sipboy

sipboy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:30:27 +0000

Never really liked Myspace and Facebook is beginning to annoy me with the “apps” that show a lot of irrelevant info in my friend feed. I like the idea of the niche networks in which you can join with your friends that you have the most common interests. I believe this is where social networking is headed. Besides, Facebook is just using you(your profile info) to make money selling highly targeted advertising to make a gazillion dollars.

By: Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way »TechAddress

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:30:09 +0000

[...] networking sites, while Facebook has only gained a 16 percent market share. I […]Source:Techcrunch New figures release by Hitwise show that despite Facebook’s rising traffic, MySpace still [...]

By: MySpace May Still Dominate in the U.S., But (Surprise!) Facebook is Catching Up Fast Worldwide

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:26:19 +0000

[...] a little anti-spin on the Hitwise numbers that just came out showing that MySpace still rules social networking in the U.S. Hitwise says that MySpace commands a 72 percent market share of visits [...]

By: Benoit

Benoit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:19:38 +0000

@Rodney regarding hi5. I signed up on hi5 maybe a couple of years ago. None of my friends were on there so I didn’t complete my profile. After getting a bunch of emails from people who wanted to add me as friend (though my profile is empty), I disabled my account. I haven’t been on hi5 for about a year and last week I received this email:

——————————-
Dear Benoit,

Thank you for returning to hi5. You requested that your hi5 account be reactivated. Your account with email address ___ is now active.

If your don’t remember your password, you can reset it at http://www.hi5.com/friend/forgotPassword.do

Thanks for joining us,

the hi5 Team
——————————-

And BAM, the spam restarted. It looks like they’re desperate if they’re re-enabling accounts automatically. I doubt this was “by mistake”.

By: Ashanti

Ashanti — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:17:26 +0000

Orkut is number one social networking site in south asia and brazil. Interestingly the number one spot on orkut goes to Brazil and number two to America.

However a year back, one new social networking site for launched in India which is getting a lot of hype and attracting a lot of users is BigAdda dot com.

http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/120

Love
Ashanti

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:17:03 +0000

myyearbook is local to me.

By: Troll

Troll — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:12:39 +0000

myspace is a spam haven, all of the ‘friend’ requests are from people pitching their products - there’s nothing genuine

but i still like myspace over facebook - myspace has personality

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:01:21 +0000

BlackPlanet has been around for nearly 10 years . It was “social” before social became the “new” thing.

MySpace is annoying, or rather the way folks just go overboard with their pages..their user interface and navigational architecture is confusing.

Facebook on the other hand, is……annoying :). A bit too restrictive(although somewhat understandable) and their UI and Nav is also crap.

I actually feel that hi5 is a much better in between, not nearly as much spam as MySpace, better user interface overall.

By: Benoit

Benoit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:57:01 +0000

I don’t think that they are directly comparable. In terms of entertainment, I think that myspace with its bands and the way it presents videos is superior. I’m not into adding a billion apps on my overcrowded Facebook page. But I’ve been finding more of my old high school/college friends on Facebook with whom I reconnected. They are in Europe and apparently Facebook is gaining a lot of ground there.

By: Planet Malaysia

Planet Malaysia — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:55:31 +0000

Friendster is No.1 in Malaysia

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:54:44 +0000

Not a fan of facebook or MySpace. May be being in my 30’s I’m over the hill. I just use LinkedIn…..

Anyways, last weekend I visited with my nephew and niece.

Nephew is 15 years old
Niece is 11 years old

When I posed the question to both of them if they use Facebook or MySapce they replied:

Nephew: “Nope. Me and all my friends just use MySpace.”
Niece: “Mom won’t let me have a MySpace account, yet. What’s Facebook?” So, I asked my niece what is her favorite website(s). She answered Club Penguin and Webkinz.

Free market research for Facebook and MySpace.

By: Appsly

Appsly — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:52:05 +0000

What’s happening to facebook?

The apps killed it.

Did the apps kill it?

Yes they did.

How did the apps kill it?

Together.

By: semperfidelis.com

semperfidelis.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:49:30 +0000

“anyone else never heard of blackplanet.com before this?”

Black Planet has been around for years and is quite popular with the black internet community.

Just as migente.com is popular with hispanics and asianplanet.com is popular with Asians.