Blog Prompt #3

MySpace should close

            The social networking site known as MySpace has been around for quite some time.  However, some people believe that it should be shut down entirely.  I find myself to be one of those people.  Allow me to give a few reasons as to why this site should be shut down.

            The first reason I’d like to discuss is that the company that makes the site has steadily been losing staff members, so it looks as though it might be going out of business anyway. (McCarthy) In 2011, News Corp., the company that owns MySpace, announced what the CEO called a "significant organizational restructuring that will result in a 47 percent staff reduction across all divisions globally and impact about 500 employees." 

            Another reason that I believe MySpace should shut down is that hardly anyone seems to use it anymore.  Other similar sites like Facebook and Twitter took away a majority of MySpace’s users.  However, MySpace did try to get some of its thunder back.  It got revamped with the “New MySpace”; but it, in a sense, is the same site just with a flashy new paintjob.  And it’s also be reworked to something that is totally different than what it once was.

            That something is that it’s now more of a media sharing site, like YouTube.  This started some time after Justin Timberlake begun to be a part in the main operations of the website.  Now, people can still get connected with one another, but now all the discussions are about what music they are currently listening to, what videos they’re watching and things like that.

            I guess what I’m saying is that if MySpace is on the verge of being shut down; just get it over with already.

Works cited:

1) McCarthy, Caroline. "Should MySpace just die already?."CNET. CNET, 12 Jan 2011. Web. 1 Apr 2014. <http://www.cnet.com/news/should-myspace-just-die-already/>.