One of my favorite blogs, TechCrunch, recently posted a story about how new data shows that Facebook may overtake MySpace in terms of users by late 2009 or early 2010 (Read TechCrunch article here).
First of all, let me state that I completely agree. I wrote a post several months back on the reasons why I think Facebook does better than MySpace. Although I have profiles on each site (Facebook & MySpace), I check Facebook on a daily basis while I only will check MySpace every once in a while.
I think the data is interesting, but I don’t think it shows the entire story. It is measuring strictly signed-up users, but not necessarily the activity of the site. My guess would be that Facebook gets much more activity and actual usage than MySpace, where there are countless inactive pages that sit and collect dust.
Just my take on it…
What do you think? Which do you prefer?
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Hello Grant,
I have found both the growth of MySpace and Facebook fascinating. I have HAD a MySpace site and have since disposed of it. I found the technology a bit old. I actually felt that I was back in my Prodigy and early AOL days. I think as a result of that experience I never explored the idea of Facebook. In many ways, both Facebook and MySpace are really nothing more than the evolution of the confusing and messy chatrooms of the early 90s.
Interesting. I thought Facebook was making up some ground and MySpace is getting more and more trashy.