Comments on: MySpace vs. Facebook: The Party Starter Showdown

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By: Customize Facebook

Customize Facebook — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:35:00 +0000

i a firm believer facebook will prevail. with all the new intergration tools they keep coming up with its getting more useful, and also all the mobile companys making phones to be compatible with facebook - its must be a keeper

By: esha

esha — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:33:31 +0000

one day yahoo will buy facebook and google buy myspace then google buy yahoo and google buy sexychill :D

By: Mathias

Mathias — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:05:32 +0000

Some very interesting statistics. MySpace has to much ’spammy’ content, bloated pages… Facebook has a more mature look and I think the users are also of better ‘quality’.

By: anne

anne — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:35:45 +0000

I would like to see a more qualitative definition of “user”. Eg., MySpace allows multiple/fake identities, and from my experience, many users are just viral marketers in one form or another (often teenagers) hunting for hits and expansion of their networks. Facebook is qualitatively different - it is real people connecting to their real life friends, using applications to keep in touch and organise real parties in their neighbourhood. So a direct comparison of the numbers is like comparing apples with pears, regardless there is an overlap.

By: Data Strategy

Data Strategy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:02:22 +0000

Compete.com has interesting analyses of Facebook and MySpace

I just discovered a bunch of interesting posts on Compete.com analyzing Facebook and MySpace. Compete.com has a proprietary collection of Internet traffic data, so much of their analysis is quite unique. Links and notes of the posts I’ve read:

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By: Joe W

Joe W — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:38:59 +0000

I think Myspace has it’s own economy and currency now….As long as there are people who can’t make a simple layout people like me will be here making them and earning a piece of the pie.

By: Jane Radcliffe

Jane Radcliffe — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:56:27 +0000

The main finding of this research is that MySpace is stickier, and that more of Facebooks’ users have also started using MySpace than vice versa. Very interesting. Even more interesting, all three comments imply or suggest that Facebook should killing MySpace. It seems us techheads want it to be true because we like Facebbok, but the research suggests otherwise. That’s why we do research isn’t it? To give us the facts.

By: MaxFreiert

MaxFreiert — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:44:07 +0000

Narnia - This is something we may come back to in future blogs. Stay tuned.

Dave- Great points! I expected to see a shift in intensity of Myspace/Facebook usage as well. It actually looks like early Myspace users are just more involved in Social Networking than other users. This group still visits Myspace at a higher rate than the average Myspace user (average of 29 times a month), they also spend considerably more time on the site (nearly 30 minutes per visit).

Interestingly, the segment of Myspace early adopters who use both MySpace and Facebook (18%) use both sites more intensely than the average current Myspace or Facebook user in May of 2007 - visiting Facebook 16 times a month and staying for more than 17 minutes. At least among this group, its difficult to quantify a significant migration away from Myspace.

Rod - The Facebook platform is something we’re watching closely. It would be surprising if these apps don’t encourage loyal users, as well as longer stays on the site in general.

By: rod / techfold.com

rod / techfold.com — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:14:46 +0000

I’m surprised facebook hasn’t been spiking more; judging by the number of FB requests I’ve gotten in my inbox over the last few months, its starting to hit its mainstream stride.

I wonder too how the F8 platform will change things. You have to imagine that each F8-based app that an FB member uses is another “hook” that makes it harder to migrate away.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:25:54 +0000

great post, altho i’d like to see more stats comparing depth / frequency of usage over time, particularly minutes per day or other active use metric.

while i agree people don’t leave their earlier social networks, it’s pretty common for them to change the focus of their time & attention from one to another. my guess is that a significant % of MySpace users may be starting to spend more time on Facebook if they’ve gone to college, and perhaps now even if they haven’t.

would be great to see whether time-on-site or frequency of visits data backs this up or not.

- dave mcclure

By: narnia

narnia — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:37:57 +0000

this is great! anyway to track the migration from myspace to facebook?