The great MySpace myth! Was I the only one fooled?

Question

I just found out that MySpace was owned by Fox and has now been purchased by Goggle am i the only one that was led to believe that it was ran by that guy Tom, one man, by himself, against the odds.
I now feel cheated and empty inside, once again i have been lied to by corporate america.

Answer 1

I am sure you were not the only one!
I can only claim ignorance rather than superiority - as I didn't know anything about it, but that is why I am going to investigate it now!

Well, if I've got the right one, the latest says it is now owned by Newscorp and Rupert Murcoch is the chief executive officer of this.

You were right about it originally being run by one man, Tom (check out the following site for full name and history).

It sounds to me that it was one person's great idea and that I
was so good, but that it got too big for him to handle, so it was, perhaps inevitably taken over by people who saw the financial possibilities in such a network.
I can understand your feelings, but , to be cynical, I suppose it is the way of 'the world' and it doesn't surprise me.
Why not go to Switzerland to live - they have true democracy there!
Hope my cynicism has helped:>)

The following site has all the history and information about this, that you might need:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySpace

Hope that helps:>)

Answer 2

I think you are. Tom has quite a large support staff which works with him. He was a co-founder after all so even from the beginning he was being assisted by someone. He is more just the face of myspace. He still works for myspace even though it has been bought out by Fox, and btw google did not purchase myspace, only the rights to be the search engine for the site.

Answer 3

Did it really go from Fox to Google? Fox is a far right company, and Google is a far left company. I wonder if it was an experiment gone bad and they changed it over!? Hah!

Anyway, Google has it now? I'll have to look that up, but if that's the case, we can expect Myspace to clone out some really nifty tools: imagine a social network of professionals instead of little kids wanting to try and be cool? It'd be awesome to have that.

/glee

Answer 4

I read that Tom really did start it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace.com I thought it was too big for one person, so I never made Tom "a friend." He's been the consumate entrepreneur: build a business, watch it turn into an empire, sell it for great profit. He was the face behind a small group of people, NOT a corporation. Rest assured, my friend: you were in NO WAY duped. You just witnessed a legend being made.

Answer 5

Tom started the company, and is still the president. All the original staff are basically still there. However, Tom sold it for millions to Fox. Smart move in my eyes because it's all about the Benjamin's baby!

I hadn't heard that Google bought it though.

Answer 6

Tom was the original owner, who sold Myspace to fox. So dont feel too fooled. He WAS the real owner for like a year.

Answer 7

Fox bought it recently. Within the last year. It was run by Tom, for a time. There was no myth.

Answer 8

Gosh, it just goes to show you can learn something new every day. What a let down, hope you soon get over the disappointment but really, you should know by now never to trust anything that comes out of the USA these days.

Answer 9

Tom has always just been an employee, a main guru that people associate with as young guy. Sorry, I'm not even sure he works for them anymore, but don't quote me. I can say, for being owned by bigger companies, they really screw it up a lot.

Answer 10

...Are you saying that you are losing faith in Tom!? The Creator? Shame on you... Believe in Tom! He is the Jesus of MySpace! He is everyones friend! Yeah I should go to bed.