Friday, May 21, 2010

Thousands Quit Facebook, Myspace Simplifies Privacy

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-engagement/thousands-quit-facebook-myspace-simplifies-privacy-007559.php

This blog stated that Myspace's co-president, Mike Jones, emailed Myspace users on Monday informing them that privacy settings for user profiles will be simplified. Amidst all the contraversy about Facebook's privacy settings, it is interesting that Myspace has decided to simplify theirs now in an attempt to please its users. One feature that was mentioned to be applied to privacy settings is that when the policy changes, all previous user profiles will remain automatically private. This is the opposite of Facebook because everytime they change the privacy policy (which has been quite a few times) all user profiles are automatically set to public. Is Myspace trying to make a comeback? It seems like every few years a new social networking site appears and takes over the majority of internet users (dead journal to myspace to facebook). But I have yet to hear any of the previous sites winning over users again so it will be interesting to see if the issues of privacy push people back onto Myspace. Perhaps Myspace isn't dead.


Patricia Wang

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