blog 3

Kody Shaw

Blog 3

 

          Over time social media has changed into many different sites and webpages. Each time a new social media site comes out it tries to outperform other sites. As time goes on new social media becomes more competitive and tends to put the old sites behind. These older sites, or “small potatoes,” have been on the verge of extinction or undergoing modifications in order to stay on top of the social media game. These “small potatoes” consists of sites like Myspace, Digg, and Reddit. These types of sites are just older forms of social media compared to what has come out up to date. I believe that Myspace is a site that should go extinct. Myspace was created in August of 2003 ("Where Did Myspace Come From?" pg.1). This alone shows that it’s over 10 years old and is outdated. With such a technologically advanced society, 10 years is too long for a social media site not to get replaced. Too many new ideas have come about and it’s left Myspace in the past. Myspace has also had issues with its new release. Many years of blogs and history were deleted off of Myspace as it underwent its 20 million dollar modification. By deleting many years’ worth of blogs and information, users have become furious. This is not the way to stay afloat in the social media world by any case. I feel as Myspace can’t keep up with its competitors as so many people have left the site for other forms of media sites. Myspace doesn’t have anything to really draw users back to its site making it so much harder to keep up as well. Having to go onto other users’ sites to communicate makes it much less efficient as well. Newer social media sites have made it much more efficient for users to post on feeds. For any reasons like these I feel that Myspace should become extinct. I think within a short period of time Myspace will lose all of its users to bigger and better social media sites.

 

 

"Where Did Myspace Come From?" About.com Social Media. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Apr. 2014.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10173232/MySpace-users-threaten-to-sue-after-years-of-blogs-deleted.html