My New Space

Good morning all you readers out there, and welcome. Today I was skimming around the internet and found something very interesting.

MySpace...

Yes, MySpace is not that interesting because it's old and outdated and everyone uses Facebook, or twitter, or blah blah blah.

But wait! There's a new MySpace? Preposterous! I look into it, and in fact, it is true. Myspace has been bought out by financial backer Justin Timberlake and Specific media for $35 million from News Corp. That's a lot of cash for a website that seems to be outdated and unused by a good bulk of social networkers. Now, this may still be old news for some of you, since it happened back in 2011. However, the fruits of the design team's labor are starting to pop up on the web.

You can see a welcome screen now. The welcome page features a spinning disk and a place to enter your e-mail address if you want to be a part of the new MySpace. Well, be a part of it if and when it actually launches. Right now, it seems they are focusing on artists. People who are into music, art, singing, acting, and all those types of activities are being targeted as the demographic for the new launch. MySpace wants those types of users to return, since it is who they feel made the site popular in the first place. This focus might also be why Justin Timberlake is involved, as he is always interested in promoting the fine arts.

There is also a short video on the new site.

The two top comments on this video right now are:

• Facebook seems more like an online contacts book, it is useful but you never meet new people. Twitter on the other hand, you always meet new people but there isn't much conversation and "friend making." Hopefully MySpace will give something that can be the best of both worlds.                     Josh Rado 1 week ago 37 (thumbs up)    

 

•   I couldn't really tell what was going on in most of that thing, but Facebook's Timeline sucks so bad I might just give MySpace a chance again.                                                                                     carlos valencia 1 week ago 37 (thumbs up) 

 

I find these two comments very interesting. Starting with the second one, people really have been complaining about all the changes Facebook has been making. It seems to be a trend now that the major Social networking sites are not listening to their users, and just doing what they feel will make them more mainstream, thus gaining them more profit. So, my bias may be against Facebook always changing its look. I know that they have probably done studies on this kind of thing. But when you implement something and there is that much backlash, sometimes you just have to admit to your mistakes! Facebook seems to be trudging through though. However, if MySpace plays it's cards right, then maybe they can snatch back some of their users.

Back to the first comment. Facebook is like an online contact book. Sure, Facebook as games and ways to keep in touch, but sometimes you get so many people that everything becomes cluttered and it's hard to tell what's important anymore. Also, twitter really isn't good communication. You are limited on words and once again can have so many followers that you can't tell where your twitter feed stops or starts. Maybe the new MySpace can bring back the conversation and sharing of ideas.

For now, the site looks like it's going to be very image oriented. It reminds me of a mix between Pintrest and Tumblr. These forms of social media can get cluttered as well. It will be interesting to see what the new MySpace will do to compete with the already existing and thriving social media sites. People may complain about these sites when they change, but that's because people don't like change. Some people's whole lives are on Facebook and Twitter. How willing will they really be to move their whole life to another site? If people really don't like change, it's going to be a long hard road for New MySpace.