Today Is the Day MySpace Stopped Seeking to Matter [Myspace]

Facebook and MySpace made a joint announcement today! They’re going to start sharing data! Huge news for two rivals, right? Except it’s pathetic. Porting info from Facebook to MySpace is the table scraps of the former spoon fed to the latter.

MySpace has barely mattered for more than a minute now-but today’s announcement can have been big news, if only because it was so strange for them to be doing anything jointly at all. The pair collaborating is like two catty popular high school girls hanging out together, only now one is nearly fat and sad and nobody likes her anymore, except terrible bands and spam robots.

Essentially, the ” Mashup” (because the word mashup makes anything cool) implies that MySpace users will, with ” a straightforward one-click set-up,” have the ability to import their respective Facebook likes and interests into their MySpace account, providing personalized stuff for said MySpace user. So, in the event you ” like” someone on Facebook, you’ll get matched up with their MySpace page. The meaning of this need to be clear. MySpace, on its own, is boring and washed up. It realizes it has a cow that ain’t selling milk-and wishes to achieve out to the massive guy for some help. We’re plugging our interests into Facebook, not MySpace. Our online lives are with Zuckerberg, not Tom. MySpace is a wasteland. Not even-wastelands are popularized in stories and flicks. MySpace is someone’s aunt’s decrepit basement, jam-packed with mildewed towels and faded souvenirs.

It’s a desperate act on MySpace’s part, an acknowledgement of their irrelevance and Facebook’s social data dominance. And saddest of all? Facebook just doesn’t give a shit about MySpace. The indisputable fact that Facebook is comfortable letting you carry your precious info to what at the very least was once an immediate competitor shows how little competition is admittedly happening. It’s the equivalent of gifting away your raggedy old t-shirts to charity. Now, after all, this isn’t an act of charity-perhaps MySpace had to drop some cash on Facebook’s lap before this happened-however solidifies MySpace’s place as a haggard has-been. When was the last time you used your account? Do you even have one anymore? Would anyone had been talking about MySpace today if it weren’t for them taking Facebook’s sloppy seconds?

Probably not. This wasn’t a deal, it was a white flag. [ MySpace ]

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