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RE: Why Did Facebook Have More Staying Power Than Myspace?
Maybe because it was easier to sign-in an use it didn't appeal the "sofisticated" web user but instead managed to even get everyone's grandma onboard.
Excellent point which is one that the developers here at steemit need to address. Although the website here is very simple, the register and log in process is not. I've suggested a solution for this here.
Also, the ability to customise your own page actually made MySpace pretty noisy on the eyes. I think a huge part of the emmigration away from MySpace to Facebook was due to Facebooks visual simplicity. No matter whose page you are on, everything is where you expect it to be.
MySpace also make another mistake steemit is currently making. It appealed to a particular market that swarmed onto MySpace, leaving everybody outside that market to believe that MySpace isn't for everyone.
For MySpace it was musicians and for steemit it's crypto-heads and anarchists. We need to really be careful that we keep extending this market out or we too could be replaced.
that is a good point, facebook is much simpler, which can appeal to a broader range of people, which i guess would explain some of twitters success as well
which is another platform i have never been able to understand lol
And if you want the "conspiracy theory" type of explanation, maybe a secret unlimited budget by certain government agencies to promote FB worldwide on traditional media in exchange of (later) sharing sensitive data about people worlwide.
i think there is something to be said for the fact that "Tom" from myspace faded away into obscurity, while mark z became some big celebrity with political influence
that is another part of the equation that has always been interesting to me