What Is MySpace

What Is MySpace? The History Of A Phenomenon

by Myspace on Apr 23, 2009

It is difficult to imagine an Internet without MySpace, is not it? Believe it or not, there was no such thing as a MySpace until the year 2003. A similar social networking site called Friendster had launched in 2002, and employees of a company called eUniverse who were members of Freindster decided that they could do much better themselves.

At first, Myspace was populated only by employees of eUniverse. This was done intentionally to keep the site from being so "empty" when other users came along. eUniverse then held contests to see which employee could sign up the most new members, and MySpace was soon the top social networking site of all. In fact, people left Friendster en masse to join and use MySpace instead to interact with friends and co-workers. MySpace allowed much more user customization than Friendster did, and kids and adults both enjoyed the challenge of making their MySpace layouts look just the way they wanted them to appear.

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