{"id":69,"date":"2007-08-01T17:04:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/08\/01\/myspace-is-dying-what\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:04:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T16:04:04","slug":"myspace-is-dying-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/69","title":{"rendered":"MySpace is Dying? WHAT?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I checked, the social networking giant was doing pretty well for itself. But according to Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\">MySpace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondlife.com\">Second Life<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a> were all doomed. He says that MySpace could be the first one out because it&#8217;s &#8220;huge, ugly, unmonitored, unrestrained, and pointless.&#8221; I do agree that some MySpace profiles could use a serious makeover &#8211; you can&#8217;t even read some people&#8217;s profiles because of the backgrounds and bad color combos. What do you think? Is it going under before the end of the decade?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a> may go offline too because a lawsuit claims that the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stole the code from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectu.com\">ConnectU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What will we do without our social networking sites?<\/p>\n<p>link to the PC Magazine article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1759,2145408,00.asp\">&#8220;MySpace, Second Life and Twitter are Doomed&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nlink to the MSNBC article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19937202\/\">&#8220;Lawsuit seeks to Shut Down Facebook&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I checked, the social networking giant was doing pretty well for itself. But according to Lance Ulanoff at PC Magazine, MySpace, Second Life and Twitter were all doomed. He says that MySpace could be the first one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[297,296,298,256],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-facebook","tag-myspace","tag-social-networking","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}