MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month

Goldiloxx writes "Social networking website MySpace lost over ten million users between January and February 2011, according to comScore. In February 2011, the Internet website had less than 63 million users, down from a previous total of approximately 73 million."

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QQ

[disopaos]

MySpace has no change in surviving anymore. Facebook has 600+ million users and Windows Live Messenger has 330+ million users. The only larger network than those two is interestingly Chinese QQ, which has 636 million users.

Re:QQ

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't know, "QQ" is a pair of crying eyes in ascii. That's why it's so interesting.

Re:QQ

[v1]

MySpace has no change in surviving anymore.

That's like saying "AOL has no chance in surviving" now that dialup is a joke. But yet, they remain....

Most things that have gotten that big will die a very slow death.

Re:QQ

[amicusNYCL]

Oh, and nice racism there, calling QQ "Chinese", thus implying it is strange and weird.

I'm pretty sure you're the one who equated Chinese with strange and weird, I don't see that in the OP. Due to the fact that QQ is developed and operated by a Chinese company, there's nothing racist in saying that QQ is Chinese. It is. "Chinese" is not a racist term, it's a demonym.

Re:QQ

[blair1q]

Do you really believe that Facebook has 600 million users? Or is it more like 600 million unique login names?

Because I personally know several people with several dozen accounts that they use to game the games that require you to have scads of social acquaintances willing to play the games along with you.

I'd put FB's real usership at 50-150 million. The rest are fake.

Re:QQ

[Archangel Michael]

Some people see "racism" everywhere. They see race first in just about everything. They are the real racists, but try telling them that, and they'll deny it profusely because the idea that people who inject "race" into everything, even when it is clearly not a factor as being "racism", escapes their limited small minds.

Re:QQ

[Zerth]

Once all the old people who don't realize AOL is still hitting their credit card have died, so will AOL.

Re:News?

[sandytaru]

MySpace is destined to go the way of Geocities, Livejournal, etc. The latter is still hanging on by a thread, the former was devoured by Yahoo! who then killed it. And yes, Twitter is about to follow suit. Facebook I'm not so sure will suffer the same fate. The partnership with Zynga and its addictive games means that it will have users for years who would have otherwise dumped the site for greener pastures. The only danger is when/if Zynga abandons Facebook to strike out on its own, allowing access via apps from mobile devices directly. That will be FB's downfall.

I don't think it's that bad...

[fivevoltforest]

I doubt they actually lost 10 million users, probably just a few thousand 50-year-old men *pretending* to be 10 million teenage girls.

10,000,001

[DynamoJoe]

i knew I forgot something....

this is facebook's fate too

[circletimessquare]

anyone remember friendster?

it's my belief that social networks will rise and fall, endlessly in succession. simply because ubiquity eventually becomes a liability amongst a crowd who views exclusion and superiority to be more important. eventually, one of these smaller exclusive networks becomes the object of envy for others to be "in" that exclusive group, and the long march to ubiquity begins, until you start all over again

its an empty vapid game. its also pretty much boilerplate sociological fact. consider nightclubs in cities: the small chic "in" club that everyone wants to get into, overexposure, then decline because the "cool" kids want their own exclusive club. rinse, repeat

and no, facebook will not become ubiquitous plumbing. because they need to make money to survive. to make that money, they need to sell the personal details of their members. which is a force that will drive people from facebook as they wise up to how creepy that really is: by feeding their personal details to the machine, they are telling their abuser how to abuse them

so be on the lookout for the next friendster/ myspace/ facebook. could be diaspora. or maybe being programmed right now in some dorm room. $$$ to the chaps who start/ find the right network at the right time, and ride that rocket all the way up

It's called my[___] now

[Control-Z]

As if it could get any worse, now their name has underscores in it.

Re:It's called my[___] now

[dadelbunts]

I hate you so much. What has been seen, cannot be unseen.

Re:From TFA

[Octorian]

You were actually able to view a MySpace page for long enough to want to rip your eyes out? I'm impressed. Back when MySpace was popular, most of those pages would crash my web browser long before I actually got to look at them.

exactly

[circletimessquare]

you're talking about a social network protocol, like http, smtp, nntp, etc

the point is, we'd have many different internets today if it was started as different walled gardens you had to pay for. well, actually, that is the way it was: bbses, compuserve, etc. all of which died in favor of the free and the open

so end game for friendster/ myspace/ facebook is a free and open social network protocol. sntp sounds too confusingly like smtp so lets call it...

vytp

vapid yammering transfer protocol

Re:News?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ebay and Facebook are different beasts, but Facebook can remain the top social networking site while still being in decline. Maybe it's because I think Facebook's appeal is in part due to its relative newness.

"Hey, I can post my thoughts in one place and all these people will see them!"

"Hey, I haven't talked to her in years and now I can find out what's going on in her daily life without picking up the phone."

After awhile you realize that getting the 1 page update in the Xmas card each year is more than enough.

Re:Keep trying...

[vlm]

Has there ever been a successful tech company run by a marketing person? This is an honest question.

DAK is as close as I can think of. I enjoyed reading his catalog. Of course they went bankrupt but for many years they were somewhat successful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAK_Industries

The wikipedia article carefully avoids discussing the demise of DAK, but as I recall the problem was he was quite talented at profitably selling "last years stereo" but he bought heavily, and tried to sell "last years computer" and went bankrupt.

Re:News?

[tooyoung]

When I cancelled my account, I noticed a few interesting things:

1. My list of friends was significantly reduced from what it had been in the past, making me think that they cancelled their accounts.
2. Myspace is completely different looking than it was however long ago I last logged in. You wouldn't even recognize it now. Apparently when they redid the look, they wiped out any customized backgrounds that were set.
3. For some reason, myspace decided that I am following Justin Bieber, Russell Crowe, Tom Petty, and a whole slew of other celebrities, most of which I have never heard of. The entire content of my 'home' screen is a bunch of updates from bands and actors that I have no interest in.
4. None of my remaining friends have posted a comment in over a year.
5. I apparently 'earned' a 'badge' for joining myspace 'before it was cool'. I'm pretty sure I was a late adopter.
6. You can cancel your account, but it is a separate step process that involves you responding to a confirmation email. Perhaps that is reasonable. They grovel for you to stay at several points in the process.

Re:wrong place for my bandsite

[shish]

Protip to all musicians (and indeed, everyone everywhere): for about $10/year you can buy a domain name, put that on your CDs / business cards / etc, and stick up a redirect to whichever social network you're on this week