MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff

Meltemm
Meltemm Posts: 2
edited June 2009 in The Clubhouse
Hi,

This is my first post to the forum, it’s very informative and enjoyable really.

According to Routers, Myspace will cut its staff by 30 percent. As you can guess, Facebook and Twitter are very powerful competitors of myspace. There are many more competitor in online community industry and I wonder which one will become most powerful. Any predictions?
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  • Retro152
    Retro152 Posts: 985
    edited June 2009
    Meltemm wrote: »
    Hi,

    This is my first post to the forum, it’s very informative and enjoyable really.

    According to Routers, Myspace will cut its staff by 30 percent. As you can guess, Facebook and Twitter are very powerful competitors of myspace. There are many more competitor in online community industry and I wonder which one will become most powerful. Any predictions?

    Welcome to Club Polk. This thread may be better served in the "Club House" sub-forum, see you getting alot more feedback there.:D



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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited June 2009
    Hopefully, they will all go out of business.
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  • Retro152
    Retro152 Posts: 985
    edited June 2009
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Hopefully, they will all go out of business.

    Amen to that!:rolleyes:
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  • Polkitup2
    Polkitup2 Posts: 1,621
    edited June 2009
    Amen brother
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,460
    edited June 2009
    You can Facebook on Myspace and then rotate on your Twitter.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2009
    Hopefully they all go out of business, and kids start leaving their houses, and interacting in person again.

    Perhaps it would help with the obesity problems we have in this country as well.


    I can't lie, I have a Myspace account. I also check it all of 3-4 times a month, opposed to some of the kids out there that practically live on there.
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited June 2009
    I don't how these places make money to stay afloat. I bet they sell tons and tons of the information given up for nothing for millions in return.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2009
    Grumpy old men? lol...I'm 22! I don't think that exactly counts as old. I can be kind of grumpy sometimes when I first wake up in the morning though.

    C'mon, I'm with the times. I do have a Myspace account. I just find it to be ridiculously pointless.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited June 2009
    I was thinking of starting my own Web 2.0 business, similar to Twitter, aimed towards women, and call it Twatter.
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  • wutadumsn23
    wutadumsn23 Posts: 3,702
    edited June 2009
    LOL, Curt you grumpy old man!!!! I agree 100%, my 14 yr old daughter just got a Myspace (much to my dismay) and has lived on there ever since. I don't have a Myspace and don't see myself getting one, and think all it is is an online popularity contest. Nothing but drama and seeing who has the most pics. and pic. comments, lol. Anywhoot, death to Dramaspace!!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2009
    Myspace is more addicting than crack. It's probably more unhealthy too.:p
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  • bruss
    bruss Posts: 1,039
    edited June 2009
    is it irony that your making fun of people posting on the internet on the internet?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,460
    edited June 2009
    There is a difference.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    You can Facebook on Myspace and then rotate on your Twitter.

    That sounds PAINFUL!:eek::p
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2009
    bruss wrote: »
    is it irony that your making fun of people posting on the internet on the internet?
    F1nut wrote: »
    There is a difference.

    Yes, there is a difference. With myspace, the majority of the people that members talk to, are their normal friends, whom live within a few miles of them. Yes, they have other friends from all over the country, but few and far between. When you talk to your local friends more online, than in person, there is a problem.

    I hang out on here a lot, but that's a lot different. There are some members here that are fairly local to me, and I've met a couple of them, but the majority are hundreds, or thousands of miles away. I'm not talking to the guy that live 3 blocks away from me on here. When I want to talk to my friends, I call them, and actually hang out with them. Myspace takes away from that for a lot of kids these days. They live on Myspace, and that's where their entire social life is.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited June 2009
    comfortablycurt wrote: »
    Yes, there is a difference. With myspace, the majority of the people that members talk to, are their normal friends, whom live within a few miles of them.

    Rather than talking, they probably text. :rolleyes:
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited June 2009
    BlueFox wrote: »
    Rather than talking, they probably text. :rolleyes:

    Quite true. I was reading something a while back regarding that. I forget the percentage, but there are a lot of cell phone users that send around 5000 texts a month. Yeah...5 THOUSAND. Figuring that you sleep for about 8 hours a night, that comes out to one text every 5-6 minutes. Do these people do anything besides texting? Do they work? I mean..c'mon now, try calling these people every now and again. Better yet, go and talk to them in person. How do people even have time to send that many texts? It's ridiculous.
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited June 2009
    BlueFox wrote: »
    I was thinking of starting my own Web 2.0 business, similar to Twitter, aimed towards women, and call it Twatter.

    We can do one for the homeless and call it squatter.:D
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  • dkmuch
    dkmuch Posts: 79
    edited June 2009
    I don't know what's up with this post, but it's all over the web (maybe a sociology experiment!)

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