Lets start off with early 1999 when none of us even knew what websites were, (well, except Neopets, come on, anybody?) and MySpace was just an idea that was being passed around the table by Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's current CEO), Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson a.k.a that creepy first friend that never leaves you any comments L (MySpace's current president). These three were part of a company called eUniverse, (which in 2004 changed its name to Intermix Media) which held a contest, challenging the employees of eUniverse to see who could get the most to join this MySpace thing. I think we all know who won, the creep, and 300 million people later, Tom and his MySpace (not so much his anymore he sold it to some old geezer for 500 million dollars, not bad for a 31 year old suburban) are doing well and are standing tall and proud at the top of the internet universe. The website includes features such as blurbs, blogs, multimedia, profile customization, commenting, music, groups, MySpace TV, and MySpace mobile. So basically, MySpace carries your life in front of the triple double you dot.
Now for the prince (soon to be king, yes it will overtake MySpace thanks to all of those viruses, you know what I’m talking about people, the ones that made people delete your ass because that virus made you sound so annoying) of the internet cyber life websites, Facebook. This site was launched on February 4th by former Harvard student Mark Zuckerburg. Originally, you had to be a student of Harvard to obtain a membership for Facebook (oh how that would have sucked). But of course, the website leaked to other colleges and universities around the
Now lets get to reality, MySpace was the place to be as of early 2005-mid 2006. Everybody was on it as an easy and efficient way to talk to your friends, comment photos, show people what you like, etc. Until one big nerd decided to hack Tom’s database and create a virus that virtually screwed everybody over in some way shape or form. That ladies and gentlemen was marked as one of the saddest days in history for the world. What were people going to do with no Tom to show them the way of life? DUM DUMDUMDUMMM Its Mark Zuckerburg to the rescue. As MySpace was becoming less and less popular with this “super virus”, Mark seen this as an opportunity to seize the world and introduce Facebook to the world, university or not, and it worked. Facebook is now more popular than ever, and is only going to keep growing. Myspace has finally gotten rid of that virus, but has fallen so far behind Facebook, that Tom dosen’t even know what to do. If you go on MySpace today, you will notice that it has a lot of the same features that they have taken from Facebook to try and make them their own. Sorry, isn’t working to well. I miss you Tom but, you need to take your 500 million and finally buy yourself a life.
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5 comments:
Oh wow Mike, you make me laugh!
Anywho, I definitely think that Facebook is a hundred times better than myspace (except for the fact that i was quite the html geek and i loved all the different layouts). But since facebook is so clean cut it is very easy to read and follow along. I also like how pictures of you can be "tagged" so people don't post pictures of you and you never see them, or realise they have them posted!
I definitely agree that no matter what Tom trys to do, Facebook will still beat Myspace.
This is definitely a good blog Mike, as it tells us a lot of background information on Facebook! =)
Awesome article Mike! These two sites definately have their own good and bad aspects. I like all of the things you can add to your facebook and I think it is much more organized and a better site but mypace was all about customization. You could put virtually anything you want on myspace with html coding. I agree on the fact that Tom needs a life or a new site idea because facebook is definatly taking over where myspace left off. Tom made his money but facebook is way too popular now for myspace to even make a comeback.
Good job on the comparison Mike.
Definatly agree with you mike, and cassidy as well. Yeah, I was definatly into the whole HTML layout thing, but got over that quickly when Facebook came into my life. It definatly gets rid of all those anoying profiles with like 29473 different glitter things all over the place...it took like 10 minutes just to open. Only problem I have with facebook is it's kind of an invasion of privacy, because sometimes if you buy stuff from another website, like a movie ticket, Facebook will post that on the updates if you're still logged on. Over all, pretty sweet website, but I'm a little overwhelmed with the invites. I've been asked atleast 50 times to be a vampire...
I disagree with you Brittany, because I think that the HTML part of Myspace was really good, even though it gave people the power to post those glitter things, it really taught people about HTML and how to use it, until the websites that did it for you came along and Facebook is way to plain, and I agree on one thing way to many things to invite people to like the vampires and other stuff
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