You know, this person makes some excellent points...

You know, this person makes some excellent points. MySpace allowed for much more flexibility over one's own page and had more features compared to Facebook. How come so many people felt compelled to leave it for the blue brand?

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viral marketing
herd mentality
buzzwords
the usual tricks

It was shit. Facebook is worse. Use neither. The end.

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Myspace turned into that shit anyway.
And all the customization shit:
a) was annoying
b) was a gaping security hole

So did GeoCities.

>scene
What?

But other than that I agree, I don't understand how Facebook got popular.
It's so boring and sterile.
I've seen corporate software that have a more fun and nicer looking interface than Facebook
Same for Twitter

Of course, if you're incapable of socialisation all social media are irrelevant to you

The interface was a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes. People like consistency, and myspace pages were all different and inconsistent. Also facebook was exclusive to college students for a while, so getting one made you feel special as a student.

Facebook had the feed, which consolidated all your friends posts into one page.

Facebook is now dying because the feed doesn't have friends typing things, posting pictures, or sharing events like back in the day. It's now all meme page shares, link shares, cooperate shares. The ads are not at all bothersome compared to all the other shit.

Instagram feels closer to Facebook back when Facebook didn't have as much spam, but it's all pictures and video, no text or events.

Facebook came out right before the IPhone whereas MySpace was older.

>Facebook had the feed, which consolidated all your friends posts into one page.
Ok, this actually sounds like a neat trick and cool ui (if you have friends that is)

No shit it's the basis of Twitter and pretty much every social media platform since Facebook.

MySpace customization options were one of the reasons everyone left. It was annoying as fuck when your friends put white text on a lime green background and then forced you to listen to some shitty song.

so Tom got paid a bunch of money for a shit service and now spends his day being a worthless human being taking boring ass stupid fuck landscape photos to impress reddit.
god damn I want to fast forward to the future so I can read about all these shitty human beings from the perspective of "what went wrong in the past".

>It's now all meme page shares, link shares, cooperate shares
Not anymore, they changed the algorithm and now it's friends publications with some ads inbetween. I want to have the pages I follow on my feed, I don't care my friends

Facebook is much easier to use and i don't remember Myspace feed as good as facebooks.

Casual user just wants to use the product, he doesn't want to meddle with backgrounds and shit like that.

That being said, at the time, i didn't understand why anyone would use myspace over facebook.

Because when it comes to customizing things yourself, 90% of the time it will look shit to others and almost unreadable, while you thrive in your own feces

Kinda like distros =)

MySpace wouldn't have been so bad if they disabled autoplay. Loading up a page with three youtube videos and a couple of songs all playing was annoying. Also MySpace had terrible stability issues. Sometimes even the most innocuous action would result in an error message.

Even if they did become big it would become rotten, eventually.

I learnt CSS thanks to myspace. Had no friends though.

The customization made the site literally unusuable. Going to people's profiles and finding tons of embedded media content. A real mess that slowed down everyone's computer at the time if they happened to go to some retard's profile and find all the shit I just described.

Facebook was awesome when it first rolled out to colleges, when it was just pictures and text. All the apps/games/features just ruined it.

>Casual user just wants to use the product, he doesn't want to meddle with backgrounds and shit like that.
The problem was the opposite. The casual user would meddle with backgrounds all the time, and it was fucking awful. If MySpace let you customize it just for that user it would have been tolerable, but you had to see everybody else's godawful custom layouts when you visited their pages.

Old people and rural rubes killed Facebook.

>not having a Xanga

Youngsters are literally lemmings.

people left myspace for facebook because the US govt backed facebook and bought out all the ad space at myspace placing the most annoying flashing ads possible

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It was because Facebook got marketed as the "smart person" social network. I remember thinking it was "for people in college" or some shit back in the day.

It would've lost all that anyways due to corporate globalist culture shifts.

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