Comments on: MySpace will Lose http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/ It's the connections that matter ..... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cord Silverstein http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/comment-page-1/#comment-3001 Cord Silverstein Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:45:23 +0000 http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/#comment-3001 Steve, Thank you for your comment and the great information. I have heard a lot of praise lately for Facebook. I am registered, but have never done anything really with it. I guess I need to give it a second look. Thanks again for your comment. Steve,

Thank you for your comment and the great information. I have heard a lot of praise lately for Facebook. I am registered, but have never done anything really with it. I guess I need to give it a second look. Thanks again for your comment.

]]> By: Steve K. http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/comment-page-1/#comment-2999 Steve K. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:01:33 +0000 http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/#comment-2999 I recently conducted a series of interviews of 18-24 year olds for a master's thesis on viral marketing. Of the 15 subjects, only two of them still used MySpace, and sporadically at best. Their descriptions of MySpace ranged from "creepy" to "lame", and said that they "stopped using it the day their parents found out what it was". BTW...They all use Facebook on a daily basis and love it. Where does that leave MySpace. Their youthful core audience is jumping ship while an older, and in their eyes, decidedly less cool, audience signs on. I'm surprised Mr. Murdoch didn't see this coming. He's a lot of things, but he's not an idiot. I recently conducted a series of interviews of 18-24 year olds for a master’s thesis on viral marketing. Of the 15 subjects, only two of them still used MySpace, and sporadically at best. Their descriptions of MySpace ranged from “creepy” to “lame”, and said that they “stopped using it the day their parents found out what it was”.

BTW…They all use Facebook on a daily basis and love it.

Where does that leave MySpace. Their youthful core audience is jumping ship while an older, and in their eyes, decidedly less cool, audience signs on. I’m surprised Mr. Murdoch didn’t see this coming. He’s a lot of things, but he’s not an idiot.

]]> By: Cord Silverstein http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/comment-page-1/#comment-2924 Cord Silverstein Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:17:19 +0000 http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/#comment-2924 So where have you been? Any good prison stories? I hope so... :) So where have you been? Any good prison stories? I hope so… :)

]]> By: Sean Howard http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/comment-page-1/#comment-2922 Sean Howard Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:58:58 +0000 http://www.marketinghipster.com/2007/03/21/myspace-will-lose/#comment-2922 I finally got talked into joining facebook. All I can say is "Wow". Facebook is amazing by comparison. Actually, a comparison is not really possible. Myspace gave people a space on the web. And for it's day, this was something. Facebook actually facilitates people getting something from a space on the web. It brings space and community back into the mix. Brilliant. Yer dead on. Oh. And I'm back! ;) I finally got talked into joining facebook.

All I can say is “Wow”.

Facebook is amazing by comparison. Actually, a comparison is not really possible.

Myspace gave people a space on the web. And for it’s day, this was something.

Facebook actually facilitates people getting something from a space on the web. It brings space and community back into the mix. Brilliant.

Yer dead on.

Oh. And I’m back! ;)

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