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On 28/06/07, Pete Fairhurst <pete.fairhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> "MySpace is running out of breath, while Bebo and Facebook are fast catching
> up. That's the message from the latest figures on social networking in
> Britain. "Rupert Murdoch, who bought MySpace in 2005 [for $580m], has
> already expressed concern about the growth of Facebook. His executives will
> now be under even more pressure to find ways of making MySpace fashionable
> again." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6249520.stm Anyone else
> gleefully hoping from one foot to the other, clapping, about this? Or am I
> just a sad vindictive little pleb on my own? (Surely not?!) - Pete F.

1. I can't access MySpace at work, but I can access Facebook (at the
moment at least).
2. In the US, at least, it's been proposed by Danah Boyd that the
MySpace/Facebook split is, basically, a class thing. Alts use MySpace,
Preppy types use Facebook:
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
3. Um, Facebook has been innovating with F8. MySpace tramples on
unauth'd hacks/attempts to integate other business ideas. Contrast
with the anything-goes attitude towards profile "blinging" that leads
to most of the negative reactions to MySpace as a whole. Contrast also
with the controlled look and feel of Facebook, but the structured API
for mashing stuff up.

Tim