Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace, not

Posted by CapriciousCptl on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:16AM
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Friendster, MySpace and others have come and gone but Facebook is still here and extremely popular. Why?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by sevensor on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:35AM (#23526638)

One of my favorite pieces about this is Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

The short of it is that during a crucial point in time Facebook positioned itself as a high-class alternative to MySpace. But the article puts it better than I do.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by runawaybottle on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:46PM (#23529440)

I agree with this, but fashion happens in cycles. The trend shifted from the classiness of Facebook, to the quirkiness of Insta or TikTok.

Somewhere towards the end of this cycle, we’ll probably want something a little classier again (a new classy, not the old classy).

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by peruvian on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:05AM (#23526867)

MySpace Tom peaced out after its purchase and News Corp. didn't really know what to do with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by catacombs on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:24PM (#23529130)

He laughed his way to the bank.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by tejas3732 on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:44AM (#23526691)

There is an interesting article on Forbes on Exactly this -> https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2011/01/14/why-face...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace,... by uvw on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:09AM (#23527468)

I really liked Orkut. Damn google.

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