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Unscientific arguments in favor of MySpace:

1. I signed up for MySpace, searched for people from my high school, found at least 20 (out of a class of under 100). Same search on Facebook turned up 4. Every friend I’ve talked to has had similar experiences.
2. People always say stupid things like “most MySpace accounts are spam”. Here’s a picture of my inbox, which hasn’t been touched in a month:

   

   There’s definitely some spam there, in fact, that’s all there is since I don’t really use the site. You can see that every message (including one from 4 days ago) but the latest one (which came in a couple hours before I took the picture) comes from a profile that MySpace has since shut down. It seems virtually unlikely that, if MySpace is that good at shutting down spammers, any significant number of active accounts are spam.

3. The top 3 apps on Facebook are Top Friends, FunWall, and Super Wall, all of which merely replicate MySpace functionality. Top Friends has 2.8 million users.
4. Another complaint people have about comparing users is that tons of comedians, rock stars, actors, individual movies, businesses, TV shows, and other pop culture organizations have MySpace accounts and will be your friend. Lots of them use it as a blog and promote it at their shows, and many of them aren’t real people. You might argue this has no value, and that you don’t want to friend people you don’t know, and therefore they shouldn’t count. I totally agree about the first part, but millions of donkeys actually do want to be Dane Cook’s virtual buddy, or have Snakes on a Plane show up in their top friends list. They might not be actual people or friends, but they definitely count.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate MySpace and actually use Facebook. I like it much better for about 100 different reasons. But I’m in the minority and always will be. I’ve also never spent a cent on Facebook or clicked an ad, and can’t think of any reason why I’d be compelled to do either in the future. On that I’m in the vast majority and always will be.

It’s no Google.

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