If you ask any of your friends over 21 if they use MySpace anymore, I would say most would say no. Except for maybe to look for new music. The social media masses are leaving MySpace to hitch a ride on Facebook.  MySpace is so last year and Facebook, well it looks like world domination.

Why do users prefer Facebook? It’s easier to use, less spammy, and more visually attractive. It use to be hip and cool to have a crappy MySpace page, now it just looks like a hot mess.

In New York Times, they claim users are leaving Facebook. I say liar liar pants on fire. Yes, I agree many people are just online to connect with a few friends, and they are burned out over old high school pals reconnecting with them. Or even that ex boyfriend or girlfriend you have ZERO desire to reconnect with. Yes, you might be curious about they look now, otherwise you could give a shit.  Of course, the media has some doomsday predictions.

NYT Says:

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever. If you ask around, as I did, you’ll find quitters. One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.

Another friend, who didn’t want his name used, found that Facebook undermined his whole notion of online friendship. “It’s easy to think of your circle of ‘Friends’ as a coherent circle, clear and moated, when in fact the splay of overlap/network makes drip/action painting a better (visual) analogy.” Something happened to this drip painting that he won’t discuss. He said, “Postings that seem private can scatter and slip unpredictably into a sort of semipublic status.”

That friend was not the only Facebook dissenter who was reticent about specifics. Many seem to have just lost their appetite for it: they just stopped wanting to look at other people’s photos and résumés and updates, or have their own subject to scrutiny. Some ex-users seemed shaken, even heartbroken, by their breakups with Facebook. “I primarily left Facebook because I was wasting so much time on it,” my friend Caroline Harting told me by e-mail. “I felt fairly detached from my Facebook buddies because I rarely directly contacted them.” Instead, she felt as if she stalked them, spending hours a day looking at their pages without actually saying hello.

But then came the truly weird part: “Facebook was stalking me,” Harting wrote. One day, on another Web site, she responded to an invitation to rate a movie she saw. The next time she logged on to Facebook, there was a message acknowledging that she had made the rating. “I didn’t appreciate being monitored so closely,” she wrote. She quit.

Who knows? Maybe the trend five years from now will be to actually connect with people in person or via phone. People will get tired of the social media experience and go back to basics. Personally, I’m kinda tired of Facebook, I use it of course but I only spend a few minutes a day on it.

Overall, I think Mark Zuckerberg is a genius and will continue to diversify Facebook in big ways. A Taurus, he looks like he’s about 16 years old, but definitely is one smart business dude.

Watch out Google, I think Facebook is going to give you a run for your money.  Here is a video clip of Mark Zuckerberg at a recent web conference. Stay tuned.