@Bob_DaBoob MySpace has had other problems. Because they are only semi-private with opt in privacy policy. What Facebook originally offered was an alternative to MySpace's opt in style privacy, SPAM and the fact that it is for the most part much more public in the first place. That's great for Bands, artists, college students, etc that wanted to meet people they didn't know.
Facebook offered an alternative to that Social Networking structure. With the games and social activities, but catering more to people who just wanted to stay in touch with family and reconnect with old friends. The privacy concerns were with a straight forward policy that only if you wanted did you have to mess with.
They got greedy and decided to pillage the entire web for income with member lists. Then they gradually started making changes to how you setup your privacy. Gradually they started to hide and camouflage certain settings, to open up member's lives, contrary to the original precepts that made it a success in the first place. They changed the rules to confuse people on purpose. Before that being a Facebook member was not complicated and it was fun. You didn't have people you never heard of before, putting friend request in to you. Not only were old friends and family finding you, but the whole world seemed to start knocking at your door. IT DESTROYED MEMBERS CONFIDENCE, WHEN THEY REVERSED HOW FACEBOOK ORIGINALLY HAD SETUP PRIVACY!!! ...AND THEN AFTER THEY RAPED THE MEMBER RANKS OF MYSPACE, JUST AS IT WAS FINALLY CLEANING UP IT'S SPAM NIGHTMARES......... members who'd left MySpace, for better privacy started to try to leave. Due to that, FB changed what got them there in the first place. Now no matter what you did with applications (games, etc), your information was being sold by 3rd and 4th parties that you were NOT able to delete. The games, like FACEBOOK itself was using YOU as a Ghost member to claim they were growing instead of DYING. Should they be concerned? You better believe it. People's activity on Facebook will look more like MySpace ever thought of. It'll just be a shell that does NOT produce any hits or income!!!
In the past, Facebook was more of a community of friends and users, who primarily didn't join just to get their band seen & heard, or a bunch of young girls and guys who couldn't cruise the Malls or Boulevards any longer, so MySpace became their hunting and stomping grounds. FACEBOOK seemed like an excellent choice to avoid the block party atmosphere of MySpace. When it seemed that was replaced with greater confidence and a sense that you could be left to enjoy, meet and have fun more of a private home setting of just friends and family and NOT LIVING IN A REALITY TV FISHBOWL!
So if Facebook continues to LOSE actual members, instead of only attempting to pretend to NOT to lose members, with their present broken system, this place will look like a greater ghost town than MySpace ever thought of. NO INCOME will KILL IT FOR US!
At least at MySpace, you can ACTUALLY permanently leave it, if you choose and it's easy to do. Here they only make you think your account is closed. If anything, it will become a ghost town with member's names accounts there, but no activity and they will have brought it on themselves...... if they don't fix the reasons that made them appealing to the vast majority of it's active users/members today. Without better privacy policies, they will die no matter how many people they can claim as members, when they no longer use the site!
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