WHAT IS IT?
MySpace can
be considered YouTube’s ancestor. Before YouTube, ,Facebook
and Twitter, MySpace was the social network par excellence. Thanks to this
social, a lot of present-day artists became famous; for example Mika, Adele,
Lilly Allen put their songs on this site. But after a great period of success
the popularity of MySpace started declining.
HOW IT WAS
CREATED
In 2003 a
group of American people created the first version of MySpace. At the beginning
of its career it had 20 million users and many of them were teenagers.
In 2005
MySpace was a great success. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg,, offered
to buy MySpace for $75 million. But then
the site was bought by the New Corporation and ,a year later, it became the
biggest social media in the world,with more than 100 million users. In the US,
it also became more popular than GOOGLE!
MANY
PROBLEMS
But after
its great period of success, it began having problems and the biggest was
“Politics,greed,all the horrible things that come with the big
corporations”,said Sean Percival, who was the president of MySpace from 2009 to
20011. He also said that the site started putting ads and it interfered with
the users’ experience.
TODAY
Today,
MySpace has about 50 million active users,while Facebook, which in 2009 became
more popular than MySpace, has more than 1.65 billion!
Now, the
site has new owners and a new identify. In 2011 the singer Justin Timberlake
and Special Media Group, bought it for $35 million.
It now
concentrates more on music, films and celebrities than on monetization or
social networking. It has also stopped competing with Facebook and has begun
collaborating with it.
ROSITA, ANXHELA & GIADA
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