Myspace Versus Facebook...a Look At Two Giants In The Online Social Media Arena

MySpace is a popular social networking websiteof registered users among college-focused networking
offering an interactive, user submitted network ofsites, according to Wikipedia. Facebook's culture,
friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, musicappearance and principles have become the envy of
and videos for people worldwide. MySpace has beenthe social networking business. It has moved in exactly
one of the most wildly successful sites in recent years,the opposite direction, from MySpace, going for a
amassing over 120 million profiles while transformingmore sophisticated and increasingly older audience.
social networking online.Social media online is extending our real world
It has created a central community comprised ofnetworks so that we can carry on conversations
people across the globe. It is one of the most visitedinternationally as well as locally. Facebook is a tool to
sites in the world and it's introducing a huge number ofkeep in touch with friends and family around the globe
people to content syndication through news feeds andand is the most popular social networking site in
it allows millions of people around the world to publishseveral English-speaking countries, including Canada
on the web for the first time.and the United Kingdom.
MySpace is also used by people to display their talentsFacebook is often compared to MySpace but there is
and it's about keeping in touch with friends and makingone significant difference between the two sites and
new friends. It's all about interactivity and the ability ofthis is the visual appearance. Facebook is cleanly
people to participate actively in your MySpacedesigned and has a sophisticated, upscale sense about
community.it.
It is an amazing community building tool and is startingFacebook is a private company and doesn't disclose
to become an amazing marketing tool by givingsales figures but the Financial Times reported it made
internet marketers the power to drive large numbers150 million dollars worth of sales last year. Facebook is
of potential clients to a Website. MySpace allowsalready supporting several languages and they
users to customize their user profile pages by enteringsuccessfully launched their Spanish speaking version
HTML, no Javascript, into such areas as "About Me,"recently.
"I'd Like to Meet," and "Interests."Statistically speaking as of January, 2008, according to
It has a Groups feature which allows a group of usersTechRadar, Facebook has more than 60 million active
to share a common page and message board.users worldwide compared with MySpace's over 120
MySpaceTV is now in beta mode, and will probably bemillion. On average 300,000 new registrant's sign up to
launched as a separate site in either 2008 or earlyMySpace everyday versus Facebook's 250,000. For
2009. The MySpace Polls is a feature that wasFacebook the fastest growing demographic are those
brought back in 2008 to enable users to post polls on25 years old and older while 85% of MySpace users
their profile and share them with other users.are of voting age 18 or older.
MySpace is the world's largest Social NetworkingNo matter how you slice it, these are two very
website and maintains a dominant position as a mediasuccessful and very influential players in the Social
site, primarily aimed at youth, giving them theMedia online arena today and should be for a very
opportunity to express their feelings on a variety oflong time to come. And there is no telling how big a
topics.resource they can become for Internet Marketers
Facebook, on the other hand, has the largest numberworldwide.