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MySpace

Planet Money

Until about 2007, MySpace was the most popular social networking website on the internet. MySpace had originated from two guys that specialized in making different kinds of spyware that would track people's computers once it was downloaded. After September 11, they made a cursor that was in the shape of an American Flag and everyone downloaded it to show their patriotism, but they were really being tracked and being sent pop-ups through their internet browser. Through tracking peoples signals they saw that people were trying to come up with the next social network site. They essentially copied what the website Friendster was doing, but made it more accessible to ...

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of users per month, but is still trying to hold on to a niche of musicians. Newscorp, who had purchased MySpace, is now trying to sell MySpace for $100 million when they had originally bought MySpace for $750 million.
My only memory of MySpace was during my late middle school years, signing up for it and ultimately spreading a virus that killed my parent's computer. Everyone that I knew that had a MySpace was very into the music scene, but ever since Facebook came out, all those people have left MySpace for the more adult Facebook. I think Facebook has done well keeping the pages simple and easy to read. Some pages I remember on MySpace were just singularities of random photos, words and music streaming across the whole page. Facebook was right in trying to make a social networking site that anybody can align with. My grandma even has a Facebook page and I wouldn't have been able to imagine her with a ...

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Added: 4/18/2014 03:54:26 PM
Submitted By: dpzz
Category: Business
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