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MySpace's Melting Makes Murdoch Mad

Barence writes "Facebook has overtaken rival social network MySpace for the first time — provoking an angry outburst from Rupert Murdoch, the man who paid $580m for MySpace only three years ago."

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  1. Post... by mr_nazgul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe he should rant about it on his Facebook page.

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  2. Makes Murdoch Mad? by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought he was already mad. Hmmm.

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  3. Duh by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 5, Funny

    How could a UI disaster that informs a user who has problems logging in that "you must be logged in to do that?" and that lacks any kind of official published API possibly win?

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  4. Re:A shill for the State gets his just deserts by gnick · · Score: 4, Funny

    MySpace, though, is the anti-thesis of government. It's about freedom. People don't necessarily realize that, but that's the end result from allowing people to freely communicate, gather and entertain. They can take our lives, but they'll never take our MySpace?
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  5. Re:Mad? Really? by urbanriot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Rupert Murdoch wrote conveyed his anger with Facebook's success in REALLY BIG LETTERS!!!111oneoneone

  6. minus the google ads by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    its called craigslist

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  7. Idea by legoman666 · · Score: 5, Funny
    So I was sitting in my cube on this fine Monday afternoon, eating my lunch, when I had a brilliant idea.

    FlashFaceSpace. It will combine the wonderful-nonannoying-awesomeness that is Flash, the unobtrusiveness of Facebook applications, and the customizability of MySpace to create the ultimate social networking site of DEATH. This will blow MySpace, Facebook and every other social networking site out of the water.

  8. Re:A shill for the State gets his just deserts by Bedemus · · Score: 5, Funny

    MySpace, though, is the anti-thesis of government. It's about freedom. People don't necessarily realize that, but that's the end result from allowing people to freely communicate, gather and entertain.

    You may want to find a new line of reasoning. I think that argument is more likely to turn someone against freedom than it is to win someone over to MySpace.
  9. Re:Facebook won't last by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Leave me alone.
    Not feeling social?
  10. Re:A shill for the State gets his just deserts by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

    MySpace, though, is the anti-thesis of government. It's about freedom. Indeed. It's about giving the technologically inept individual the power to suck total ass on the intarweb, because Geocities never made it easy enough back in the day.

  11. Re:Facebook won't last by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 4, Funny
    and move on to something new

    I recommend "friendster" :P

  12. Re:Mad? Really? by InlawBiker · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Murdoch Mostly Mopes; Missing Money Makes Monday More Melancholy."

    Slashdot submission sure sucks.

  13. Re:Maybe it's because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But every day I get another invite from a hot girl who really wants to be my friend. She even gives me a link to her website where she keeps all the pictures myspace won't let her post. I never got this kind of attention before myspace

  14. Re:Should have known better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    wait wait, why are boys wearing girls pants? is this a new trend? i've been waiting for that opportunity for years! I guess this brings getting in their pants to a new level?

  15. Re:Mad? Really? by Sloppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fox news isn't doing anything different from NBC, CBS and ABC.

    Yes, but try to give those companies some names as clever as "Faux." Whenever I turn my parody-demon loose on "CBS" I draw a blank. (Yes, comedians, I'm issuing you a challenge.)

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  16. Re:Mad? Really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or maybe he took some photos of himself pouting with a camera held at arms length and used some program to overlay them with sparkly letter lyrics from taking back sunday, describing how much of a self-sacrificing saint (in sepia) he is for a world that just doesn't care.

    Of course he already does this somewhat with the WSJ...

  17. Re:Mad? Really? by monxrtr · · Score: 5, Funny

    CBS. We put the BS in news. What you C, is BS. CBS. News for the BS college graduate.

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  18. Re:aargh by vistic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Merge facebook and myspace? Yes! Everyone will want to come on MyFace!

  19. Re:Mad? Really? by billcopc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duh. The title: "Murdoch fumes as Facebook overtakes MySpace" Yeah, Facebook gives me gas, too! *rimshot*

    (that's right, mod me funny, you know you wanna)

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