Social Networking sites are becoming the hottest trend on the Internet right now several studies show that more and more people are using Social Networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Tribe.net.

I frequent MySpace and Facebook and in the past I have used Friendster, Orkut and Tribe.net. I am usually a person who follows the trends and when those trends die I usually abandon them.

Lately, it seems MySpace is having more and more technical issues and this seems to be a huge concern of its user base and I do not feel that MySpace is effectively addressing these issues and even when the issues do get addressed it is never in a timely manner.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. acquired MySpace.com's parent company Intermix and that alone should tell most people that MySpace has the financial backing to solve any and all technical problems they encounter. I am not sure if it's MySpace's executives just being cheap and failing to hire enough talented programmers or what the problem is but I do know that MySpace is losing its market share and users are flocking to other options.

Facebook for instance has almost no technical problems and sits on a sound and stable environment and I have not encountered not one error on Facebook's site. On the other hand I encounter glitches on MySpace on a hourly if not daily basis and it typically takes MySpace days to fix these problems.

I personally have done programming for a profession so it is very irritating to see MySpace handle these issues they way they currently are. I could fix most glitches in a matter of a few hours and of course I do consider they have to test each fix in the code in a testing environment before they deploy the fix globally across their site but still I have done programming for online games from the ground up and deployed fixes many times and never have I failed to do it in a timely fashion.

Furthermore, MySpace fails to allow innovation in its features and offers no real practicable tools for developers to develop within their site. MySpace offers no realistic avenue to assess it's users needs or feature requests and because of this it is my strong opinion that without serious change MySpace will more increasingly lose users and eventually their advertisers will leave too.


I have a MySpace profile that is publically viewable and I also have a Facebook profile
both of which I check frequently as I use both as a medium to stay in touch with some old co-workers and friends and even some family.

Ultimately, there will be a a time when a lot of the Social Networking sites get acquire by the giants of the market and then it will be a head on battle to dominate this niche market. Venture capital funding in this market is increasing and there is a lot of hype coming from sites such as TechCrunch.