What's the history behind Facebook and Myspace?

Question

When did they begin? Who started them? Which came first, myspace or Facebook? Which do you prefer?

Answer 1

MySpace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
The current MySpace service was founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson (an alumnus of both the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles), the current president and CEO, Chris DeWolfe (a graduate of University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business), and a small team of programmers. It was partially owned by Intermix Media, which was bought in July 2005 for US$580 million by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (the parent company of Fox Broadcasting and other media enterprises).[6] Of this amount, approx. US$327m has been attributed to the value of MySpace according to the financial advisor fairness opinion [2].

The corporate history of MySpace as well as the status of Tom Anderson as a MySpace founder has been a matter of some public dispute.

In January 2006, Fox announced plans to launch a UK version of MySpace in a bid to "tap into the UK music scene"[7] which they have since done (see MySpace International). They also plan to launch in China and possibly other countries.[8]

FaceBook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
The site was founded as thefacebook in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University with financial help from Eduardo Saverin. Within a few weeks, over half the Harvard undergraduate population had registered. By the end of February, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes had joined Zuckerberg to spread the website. Within two months, Facebook expanded to the rest of the Ivy League and a few other schools. By December 2004, the number of registered users exceeded one million.

As the website’s popularity rose and advertising revenue grew, Zuckerberg and Moskovitz left Harvard to run Facebook fulltime, while Hughes remained at Harvard to work as the site's spokesperson. Zuckerberg and Moskovitz moved to Palo Alto in June 2004, established an office and hired a staff of eight, including Sean Parker, Matt Cohler, and James Pereira.

Stories about Facebook became commonplace in online and print media. Simultaneously, several competitor sites appeared attempting to capture some of the limelight. While at Harvard, Zuckerberg's project competed with a student portal by Aaron Greenspan known as houseSYSTEM, whose Universal Face Book was launched in October, 2003, before Facebook existed. [6]. Greenspan would later fold houseSYSTEM into a new product, CommonRoom. In late 2004, the owners of the website ConnectU (Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss), another social networking website targeted towards college students, filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that Zuckerberg had stolen source code intended for their website while in their employ [7][8].

I don't like either of them
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Answer 2

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