And now for something short and sweet, or bittersweet if you worked at MySpace back in 2006-2007 when the social network was still going strong.
To say that Facebook stole MySpace’s thunder in those years is probably the understatement of the decade. By the end of 2008, the social media focus (and mindshare) had already shifted away from MySpace to Facebook in a massive fashion. A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, a chart:
Chart courtesy of Google Trends.