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With 'Mashup,' MySpace Gives Up, Becomes Conduit for Facebook

by Terrence O'Brien on November 18, 2010 at 05:30 PM

MySpace Mashup for FacebookWhen we imagined the fall of MySpace (or is it My____ now?), we never envisioned this. 'Mashup With Facebook' essentially announces the end of MySpace as a social network. Right on the front page, you'll now find a 'Connect with Facebook' button. As expected, clicking on it will ask you to grant MySpace (and its associated Facebook App) access to your Facebook account. Give it the go-ahead, and MySpace will soon be pulling in your profile data, status updates and Likes.

What MySpace really wants here is your "Likes." Using what you list in your profile, or like around the Web, MySpace will create a customized stream of entertainment news and content. MySpace is now just an uglier place for you to look at your Facebook profile while being bombarded with requests to "Like" bands. We suppose MySpace is not really dead, and it will continue to function as a social network, but this announcement constitutes a surrender to the current king -- Facebook. Without explicitly stating it, MySpace is acknowledging that, unless it learns to play nice with Mark Zuckerberg (who couldn't be bothered to appear alongside MySpace CEO Mike Jones for the announcement), it will only continue to race towards the graveyard of social networks. We bet Tom is glad he sold out when he did.

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