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Chart showing how utterly Facebook has destroyed MySpace

Posted in Tech blog on November 1st, 2011 by Pingdom

MySpaceAnd now for something short and sweet, or bittersweet if you worked at MySpace back in 2006-2007 when the social network was still going strong.

To say that Facebook stole MySpace’s thunder in those years is probably the understatement of the decade. By the end of 2008, the social media focus (and mindshare) had already shifted away from MySpace to Facebook in a massive fashion. A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, a chart:

Facebook vs MySpace

Chart courtesy of Google Trends.

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I never understood MySpace. In the pre-Facebook era I once made an account to comment on a band page. I instantly hated myspace. It was a catastrophy. Like a bunch of kids on a sugar rush were released on the layout. The second I logged on I knew that a mess like that could not keep existing for long. The only reason for it to exist that long was lack of any serious competition. So when a well structured Facebook came along it was no wonder people fled there. I can't blame people. It's MySpace's own fault really. They obviously didn't care about usability until it was too late.

Cam Jackson
Cam Jackson

What's the spike in Q4 2007?

Pingdom
Pingdom

@Cam: Not sure why, really. That's around the time Microsoft invested in Facebook. It could also be a glitch in Google's data. Or something else...?

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