Myspace and Facebook: The Social Networking Generation Gap?
Our friend Monica Villa at theonlinemom recently participated in a career day at a Brooklyn high school, and came away with a very interesting tidbit: almost all of the high-schoolers said that they were on Myspace, and almost all of the teachers said that they were on Facebook.
When Tom sold Myspace to Rupert Murdoch, I predicted that it would be the beginning of the end for the social-networking site that ruthlessly slayed Friendster. Up until reading Monica’s post I thought I was right. All my Myspace friends had migrated to Facebook, and all I heard from people was that Myspace had gotten too cluttered, too flashy, and too loud.
A Comscore survey in 2006 found that Myspace actually catered to the adult crowd more, having the highest concentration of users in the 35-54 range, but in this arena 2006 might as well be 1906 in terms of relevance today. Perhaps the anecdotal indications of a high-school visited last week are actually more reliable.
Point being that parents who are actively monitoring their kids on Facebook might want to see if their kids have a Myspace account as well.
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It’s true that it seems Myspace was a beta version of Facebook. Most of the people I know below 40 use Facebook and those above that age use Myspace. The older a person is the more likely they are to use Myspace.
To me, Myspace is clunky and not nearly as useful or easy to manage. Myspace is the 80s and Facebook is classic rock in that it never really goes away.
Just my two cents.