Ask HN: Why is Facebook still wildly popular but MySpace, not

One of my favorite pieces about this is Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

The short of it is that during a crucial point in time Facebook positioned itself as a high-class alternative to MySpace. But the article puts it better than I do.

I agree with this, but fashion happens in cycles. The trend shifted from the classiness of Facebook, to the quirkiness of Insta or TikTok.

Somewhere towards the end of this cycle, we’ll probably want something a little classier again (a new classy, not the old classy).

MySpace Tom peaced out after its purchase and News Corp. didn't really know what to do with it.

He laughed his way to the bank.

There is an interesting article on Forbes on Exactly this -> https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2011/01/14/why-face...

I really liked Orkut. Damn google.