USATODAY.com – Niche competitors crowd into MySpace
Is MySpace losing its cool? Margaret Marks, 17, thinks so.The Birmingham, Ala., high school senior was an avid user of the No. 1 social networking website for two years.
“But I never use it anymore, because most people my age now use Facebook,” she says. “I can talk to people I haven’t spoken to in years, and you can join college networks and meet people. MySpace is good for looking at bands and music, but for your own website, Facebook is much better.”
As the social networking phenomenon continues to grow, competitors are snapping at MySpace’s heels — er, portal. Facebook, Xanga, Wayn, vMix and others are salivating over MySpace’s 95 million users and recent crowning by tracking service Hitwise as the Internet’s most visited domain, surpassing longtime champ Yahoo Mail.
This kind-of goes hand-in-hand with what I said in this post about MySpace.com. People are starting to get tired of it already. Question is, what is going to take its place? According to USAToday, the main competitors are:
Facebook.com — geared towards high school and college kids.
vMix.com — centered around the photo and video lovers.
Xanga.com — focuses on blogs, looks nicer than MySpace.com
Whyville.com — geared towards kids 8 to 15.
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