Reasons Why Myspace Failed – Because of a Chicken Recipe
by Tom Guard on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | 4 Comments
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I was reading an article about Myspace laying off employees because of slow ad revenue and because people were flocking to Facebook.
- I knew that Myspace was going to have some trouble when I would post a link to a website and big warning would pop-up telling my friends that Myspace blocked this link or that it may be a “phishing site.”
- Social Media is about sharing. If you take sharing out of the equation, what good is a “social networking site.”
- Another reason for Myspace #FAIL is that it is not user friendly. It overwhelming to some people. There are flashy links, ads galore, slow load times on pages from amateur HTML copy and pasters and plenty of other bells and whistles that are not needed.
- There blogging format sucks and will also block outbound links with a spam/phishing warning.
- Captcha Captcha Captcha – How many times did you type that captcha word before you got it right?
- Spammers. Blame the markerters for this one. They blew up myspace with marketing spam from everything to viagra to finding “Hot chicks in your area.”
Now Myspace caused News Corp to lose 363 million dollars. That’s what these bastards get for impeding the ability to share a link about a new chicken recipe.
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facebook comments:
Hey, I agree with this whole heartedly. You could not have put this any better.
Myspace is overwhelming for newcomers, and I feel like Facebook has a more professional feel to it.
[...] might also force people to move to a newer platform which comes up with better features. [remember myspace and [...]
Yea right…
I guess that nobody ever caught on to the fact that MySpace completely dropped it’s gloves and stopped competing altogether? They just kind of “forgot” how to run a website all of the sudden right? It’s way, WAY to complex to remove all of the capchas and let people start posting links to external websites. That kind of super high-tech puter programmin’ is years beyond what our little ape brains can even comprehend. Only the prodigy level Facebook designers can design such far-out, god-like puter warez.
HA! HA! Hey, do any of you wanna buy a watch? It’s a rolex for realziez! I know it says “made in China” on it, but that’s because it’s a limited edition that was made in China. It was worn by Saint Obama and it’s not stolen or anything. Since we’re friends, I’ll sell it to you for only $10!
NO!? You don’t believe me? Well then I guess that you’re smart enough to SEE A RIP OFF A MILE AWAY THEN.
In other words, MySpace was going along great and there were hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars being invested in it. Certain people (did you hear about the Russian mobster who bought about 30% of facebook a while back) TOOK their money and invested it into Facebook in the middle of the night. They then, SANK the boat known as MySpace and walked off with a whole lot of $$.
It’s called a “bait and switch” scam. Small time hustlers will show you a nice Rolex and then pawn off a dollar store watch on you at the last second. Big time hustlers will show you a big, successful company like Facebook… and pawn off MySpace on you at the last second…
I would bet that in the next few years, the same, exact thing will happen to Facebook. They’ll make it worth hundreds of millions and then switch companys in the middle of the night and leave all of their investors stuck with a big, empty, abandoned shell… you know, like Detroit…
uhm, these are not the fundamental failures of Myspace. This is a list of poor user interface functions…and spam.