Facebook Blasts Past Fuming Murdock
It must hurt to spend over half a billion dollars to buy a passing fad. When Social NOTworking website Facebook blasted past its fast fading competitor Myspace in May, the pain must have simply been unbearable for reichwing media baron Rupert Murdoch.
Murdoch, whose News Corp bought Myspace in 2005 must have been spun around at least twice on his heels as Facebook’s climb to popularity blew by him on the way to becoming Social Networking King. He was the victim of his own observation, "The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
Fast is winning. Facebook's traffic grew 162 per cent since May 2007 to 123 million unique visitors. With barely a five percent growth year on year Myspace trailed far behind Facebook with just 114 million hits.
Sourgrapes must have been the reason Murdoch’s slam on his competition didn’t ring entirely convincing. Murdoch, who reportedly said that Facebook has “done a great job of being flavour of the month the last six months of last year,” has failed to notice that six months success in a row probably isn’t a passing fad.
Murdock must be feeling like the new, hip nightclub owner who opens his doors to learn that the joint down the street is a hipper, newer and more popular nightclub. While Murdock, the aging cheerleader for corporate globalisation, authoritarian governments and endless wars must be feeling quite frustrated about now.
His frustration or his ignorance one appear to be showing even more than his age. Murdock also said Facebook isn't really a proper social networking venue, but rather is "just a directory."
Fast is winning. Facebook's traffic grew 162 per cent since May 2007 to 123 million unique visitors. With barely a five percent growth year on year Myspace trailed far behind Facebook with just 114 million hits.
Sourgrapes must have been the reason Murdoch’s slam on his competition didn’t ring entirely convincing. Murdoch, who reportedly said that Facebook has “done a great job of being flavour of the month the last six months of last year,” has failed to notice that six months success in a row probably isn’t a passing fad.
Murdock must be feeling like the new, hip nightclub owner who opens his doors to learn that the joint down the street is a hipper, newer and more popular nightclub. While Murdock, the aging cheerleader for corporate globalisation, authoritarian governments and endless wars must be feeling quite frustrated about now.
His frustration or his ignorance one appear to be showing even more than his age. Murdock also said Facebook isn't really a proper social networking venue, but rather is "just a directory."
