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I think we can all admit that Myspace, the once innovator of social networking, is steadily failing and it seems many are fine with that. Myspace has been stagnant for a long time now, and the restructuring of the company is slowing things down further. Facebook meanwhile has been pulling tricks out of their hat at every turn, and even beat Myspace at its potential advantage with Facebook connect. Still, I have faith in Myspace and unlike most of the tech community, I do not wish to see Myspace fail. But I fear at the pace Myspace is going that they will and here are some of my suggestions to Myspace in order to compete with Facebook.
Push Myspace Lite
Once I heard about Myspace lite was up I immediately signed into my account and activated it. The feature is a god-send for me and for my bandwidth. All of a sudden my activity increased dramatically and I was zipping around Myspace like I discovered it all over again.Sadly, I do not believe everyone is experiencing my new found love, and hears why… no one clicks the button.
Myspace needs to take it upon themselves to push this feature and rather provide the option to see the “customized” look. Sure, this defies of what Myspace is, but guess what? Myspace is failing and they have to do this in order to get people back. Granted the majority of users are going to complain and scream bloody murder for about oh… a month. But who cares? They’ll get adjusted to the idea and mark my words, the users who are still on Myspace will stay on Myspace.
Make The Music
Come on Myspace! Myspace Music was suppose to be this great and amazing venture into providing free music streaming for everyone, hell, it is the one thing Facebook doesn’t have and it doesn’t look they will. Use that! Make Myspace Music the focus of your social networking platform. I go out and see bands play all the time, and they are still touting Myspace, not Facebook, as their main destination. Look what focusing on music did for Apple, the iPod is nearly synonymous with music.
Myspace still has time to gain ground, there is still a huge community for music that aren’t leaving anytime soon. We also have to think about the competition, Facebook is deadset on beating Myspace at every game they try to play… what will happen when Myspace dies down? Come on Myspace, I don’t want you to fail… let the world know you still have it in you.
