Taringa, of which we have previously spoken in SoftZone and Myspace are social networks that, in their time, were other social networks that they had their moment of glory in the pastHowever, they have not been able to maintain themselves over time. If you want to know what happened to MySpace, we invite you to continue reading.
Birth of MySpace
Myspace was launched on the market, initially in the United States, on August 1, 2003 as a social network where users could upload photos and videos to their profiles to share with groups of friends. In addition, it offered a messaging service that allowed users to have conversations through a chat.
The objective that the creators of this social network had in mind was to turn it into a platform for artists They could share their content, both in video, music or image format through photographs and paintings. Quickly, Myspace became the platform that all the artists of the moment used to make themselves known through the internet at a time when both Spotify and YouTube did not exist.
Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars and Adele are some of the artists who, thanks to this platform, made a name for themselves in the music industry. Between 2005 and 2008, Myspace was the most visited social network in the world, although in some regions, such as Latin America, they were not the best option for users interested in photography, being Fotolog (of which we have also previously spoken in SoftZone ) the most used platform. Myspace’s first change of hands came in 2005, when it was acquired by News Corporation for 580 million dollars.
first problems
Facebook launched a year after Myspace, in 2004, however since its launch it has not had the immediate success that this artist-focused platform had achieved, in large part due to the fact that, during its first 4 years of life, it was only available in English. In 2008, when Facebook was translated into other languages, including Spanish, it was actually when the company that is currently part of the Meta group surpassed Myspace.
As we have commented in the previous section, Myspace was the most visited and used social network in the world between 2005 and 2008. In 2008, this platform was surpassed by Facebook, who became the most used social network in the world, a title that follows keeping 15 years later. Instagram, which is also part of the Meta group, and TikTok, are still far behind Facebook’s user numbers, so everything seems to indicate that Facebook will maintain its reign for a few more years.
In 2009, Myspace had become the second most used social network, below Facebook and followed by Twitter which, in third place. Two years later, the numbers of this platform continued to drop, a time that was taken advantage of by Specific Media to buy the company for only 35 million dollars. 5 years later, he changed hands again and became part of the editorial group where Time magazine, People, Fortune, Sports illustrated and others are located.
In 2019, during a file migration, lost all the content that had been uploaded to the platform from its launch in 2003 to 2015, which marked the end point of a platform that had been dying for more than a decade. According to the company, all the content was unrecoverable, however, the Internet Archive platform managed to recover a small part of it.
Alternatives to MySpace
Depending on how we view Myspace, the alternatives are different. If we consider this platform as a social network where artists could make themselves known, Spotify is the best alternative at present, just like SoundCloudwhere any user can upload their songs.
But, if we consider Myspace as a social network, Facebook It is the only one that today is capable of offering the same functions that this platform offered at the time. Twitterlike instagram In this way, alternatives to Myspace can also be considered, however, its operation is very different from what this platform offered at the time.
