MySpace still going strong
by Alice Gnodde
Last week, Sarah touched on the fact that MySpace is still leading the social networking race in her post, Raining on Facebook’s parade. MySpace still get over three times the number of daily visits as Facebook.
On a recent trip to the UK, I didn’t manage eavesdrop on any Facebook-related conversations, I only heard about MySpace. This lead me to suspect that the mass exodus is not international – and that the Facebook phenomenon may just be a passing phase in South Africa. I felt a great sense of relief.
My international MySpace friends are generally still ardent MySpace users. I’d quite like to see the stats according to country because I’m sure that they vary quite significantly. What is particularly interesting is the fact that everyone in South Africa is turning away from MySpace and towards Facebook. All of my South African friends on MySpace also have a Facebook account and are starting to use MySpace less and less.
The South African friends cited Facebook’s simplicity and cleanliness (in terms of layout, etc.) as their reason for change. But Facebook is becoming much more commercial thanks to the increasing presence of advertising and the addition of gimmicky applications. (Don’t get me started on the Zombie application – or worse yet, Super Poke. I’ve never had the desire to throw sheep at my friends). And they’re starting to complain.
The applications are particularly annoying and their blog function is effectively non-existent. I signed up recently simply to see what the fuss is all about and to ‘keep in the loop’. As a MySpace purist, I hope that Facebook loses its novelty soon, I’m really not feeling particularly inspired by the whole thing.
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