I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
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Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.
The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.
Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.
I have always had stuff on the Internet. Way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about, like, networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.
I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links.
A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
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