Brandon+Myspace

=**MYSPACE**= At one point or another many young teenagers and adults have had a myspace account. Myspace has said to be one of the originators of social networking, and at one point was the most popular social network until the now popular facebook took over. It was originally used so people could find music and new artist and also connect with friends they have not seen in a while. Many people were also able to use this as a type of way to branch out with the music they, or use myspace as a form of dating service. People included things from places where they live, pictures, music, games, and there top friends, relationships. Some features it also included was that you could add backgrounds and different fonts and settings to your page.

Since 2008 though myspace has been on the decline. This rapid decline of membership is said to be from Myspace failing to come up with innovative ways to launch a new and improved social networking experience. Google had an advertisement deal with myspace for a 3 year 900 million dollar deal which caused heavy amounts of ads to be put on the website and handicapped the ability to be flexible in adding new features on the website. Even though Myspace is still on the decline they continue to add to Myspace by adding a Myspace for china and U.K. users.

Myspace is more game and music based then Facebook and you are able to have more controls over making your page personal. There is also a recommendation for games, videos, and music. You were also able to change the name that people saw you as add pictures change backgrounds and add music to your profile. One thing that also caused the decline has said to be how confusing it was to use as compared to Facebook and also how it was seen more for the use of teenagers and college students. Myspace also has an application you can use to integrate you myspace account with your twitter and Facebook account which proves the point that Facebook is the dominate social networking site. Myspace also tried to create a promotional movie to increase membership. As of January 2011 Myspace was said to have been reducing there staff by 47%

Myspace is now mostly used for music from artist to add music to there profile to increase there fan bass, but with Facebook growing more and more today it seems like myspace maybe close to the end of the road. Facebook has fan pages in which artist can control and I wouldn't be surprised that in the future many artist are able to upload there music and share it with people on facebook. High traffic flow has also constricted the company and the website itself has been known to run slower then there competition another issue it has been having over the years is privacy and how many sex were able to create accounts and track people.



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