One less thing to do

I was relieved to read this morning that there's one less social networking site you have to keep up to date. About a week and a half ago, in my "I'm now on Facebook" post, I talked about how it seemed impossible to keep all these sites up to date. Well, according to Ivor Tossell over at the Globe and Mail, My Space is dead - so cross that one off your list. Not to be confused of course with Windows Live Spaces (kudos to Facebook with being a little more creative with the name). In case you missed it, My Space is that "other" social networking site that was all the rage about a year ago. For the record, I never had a My Space page. In fact, I think I visited the site all of 2 times. I tend to agree with Ivor's points about it being too loud, and messy, and I thought I was a minority - apparently not. Will Facebook last longer? While it is prettier than My Space, I think the Facebook team will have to work really hard to keep it fresh because clearly the social networking crowd is fickle. I wonder what that means for LinkedIn and YouTube?