MySpace and Facebook have waged an ongoing war for popularity among the technology obsessed people of the world. In the end it was an easy win for Facebook making MySpace now, obsolete. Up until April 2008 MySpace put up a solid fight for the majority of the online community but unfortunately by December 2008 Facebook had an unreachable lead on the numbers of daily social network commuters.
The battle for users which is ultimately at an end, ended with the alarming statistic brought to attention in April 2010. In April 2010 the site traffic for Facebook was a whopping 6,833,602,302 people while MySpace had a mere 1,945,781,093 people. The white flag from MySpace that officially cut them off from the “popular” group of sites on the web was when MySpace announced a line that brought humiliation and utter defeat, “Like us on Facebook!” Yep you heard right MySpace had officially created their own Facebook page. If that doesn’t scream surrender I don’t know what does.
As we progress further into the year of 2011 the numbers of MySpace users continue to fall and the number of “facebookers” continues to rise. What once was, “add me on MySpace” has now been switched to, “Facebook me!” While in its early stages Facebook was undeveloped and un-popular it presented the perfect demonstration of a diamond in the rough, or a awkward teen hitting puberty. In the end when you step back and look at what Facebook has become in our society today, (a social norm). It becomes much easier to appreciate the hard work of a Harvard hermit and his friends who just wanted a connection to peers. With a movie that was nominated and won many awards Facebook will only continue its world dominating agenda while MySpace sits back wondering where its movie is and where it when wrong. Maybe it was the fact they didn’t have chat like Facebook? Well whatever the reason MySpace learned the harsh lesson of being on top, the higher the mountain the bigger the fall. Facebook rocks!
By: Taylor Depola
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