MySpace Fires 500 People By Soulless Xerox

[Bretty]

You else are you going to tell a huge % of your staff that you are laying off why?

This is the same as in any organization, especially ones where financial issues have popped up.

I have known, second hand, of companies who just wiped employees access cards and then had to go to reception and then meet an HR person, they had had no idea.

The world we live in is generally a crap place. The second people stop protecting themselves these things happen. You have a choice, ignore it and be laid off or find another job the moment you hear about additional budget and finance reviews.

 

[Thedayrecker]

500 people worked for Myspace?

 

[neolithic]

500 people worked for Myspace?

yeah, that appears to be HALF of their staff....

it took 1000 people to run that crappy site.....no wonder they are bleeding money...

 

[RoyalWelsh]

Ouch, bet that sucks. I forgot MySpace even existed tbh.

 

[Danpascooch]

While this does suck, it was 500 people, you couldn't exactly have a ten minute meeting with each of them, that would be over 83 hours of meetings.

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

Huzzah! Another flawless victory for laissez-faire capitalism!

Damn right, the shitty company is being destroyed by one with a far superior business model. Brings a tear to my eye!

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

DoublePost, disregard.

 

[Monshroud]

Wow, so much MySpace hate... I think the reason MySpace lost so much was lack of focus and WAY to much user customization. I hate going to someones page as it loads tons of pics and music and animations in colors that make everything difficult to read.

MySpace really shot themselves in the foot, and this sort of mass copy termination letter proves they still don't know how to manage what they have.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Well, Myspace is owned by Newscorp, the same soulless fascist monsters behind fox "news".

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

What I dont get is why Myspace has failed.

Honestly I have seen so little difference between facebook, twitter and Myspace over the years that I honestly cannot fathom why Myspace started out popular and why Facebook and twitter took over in popularity leaving myspace in a position like being your mentally challenged redneck cousin no one speaks about in polite company.

Seriously, they all have basically the same functionallity, what made one better than the other?

As for the jobs.. Well.. Sorry to hear it, but at the same time, anyone who has worked at myspace for the last year should have already been shopping their resumes around anyway. If you know the ship is sinking, there isnt alot of sense to try and ride it out if you dont know how to swim.

I'd say that initially MySpace was better. People enjoyed customizing profiles and honestly I found it easier to search people I knew on MySpace than facebooks current search engine (which kinda sucks). Facebook had the stupid apps, MySpace didn't (at the time).

Facebook marketed themselves better and overall had a better design concept that is continually refined (in a GOOD way, not this last gasp shit of MySpace).

Google "The Death of MySpace" or "White Flight from MySpace" for a lot of academic research on the subject. It's an interesting story.

 

[FiveSpeedf150]

Double post again... WTF, escapist? I've typed "I Agree" enough times now.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Huzzah! Another flawless victory for laissez-faire capitalism!

Too bad it's destroying the whole world, and digging a grave for all of us. They've got the market cornered on Omnicide.

 

[Klarinette]

Wow, what a douche =/
That said, there were over 500 people working for MySpace? That seems odd to me. I guess you'd need a massive coding and moderation community like that for something that big, though. I don't even want to know how many people work for Facebook.

 

[Delusibeta]

One day, Facebook will pull a similar move.

 

[Knife-28]

One day, Facebook will pull a similar move.

And then the they'll join together and create, FACESPACE! or MyBook, whichever ones the catchiest.

 

[aaronmcc]

i bet that "tom" guy who sold myspace for millions feels like a genius right now.

He's probably a bit sad but then he goes for a swim in his money pool

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I actually hope Myspace doesn't go down, since there's a lot of good bands on there that I found googling stick figure animations one day.

EDIT: Wow, the new Captchas are funny, they are actually surveying my opinions on companies that don't even exist in my country. Just so you know Escapist, these Captchas aren't likely to work against bots, simply because it accepts any answer.

 

[Niccolo]

I'd say that initially MySpace was better. People enjoyed customizing profiles and honestly I found it easier to search people I knew on MySpace than facebooks current search engine (which kinda sucks). Facebook had the stupid apps, MySpace didn't (at the time).

Facebook marketed themselves better and overall had a better design concept that is continually refined (in a GOOD way, not this last gasp shit of MySpace).

Google "The Death of MySpace" or "White Flight from MySpace" for a lot of academic research on the subject. It's an interesting story.

Facebook is also not quite as well known for being home to crappy garage emo bands, stalkers and fourteen year old girls dressed like whores.

Also because one in three Myspace pages sparkled so much they resembled goddamn Twilight.

Honestly, though... I thought Myspace had gone belly-up a few years ago - around the time Facebook hit the umpteen-millions-of-users mark. I didn't even know they still considered themselves 'profitable'.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I was fired once from a job. I simply got a P45 form in the post one day. I never heard from them.

To be honest if MySpace doesn't pick up I see it folding or being sold off for a song.