The other day, I felt a disturbance in the Force. After some Web browsing, I found out why. Facebook and MySpace, two giant social networking sites known for locking horns and struggling in an arduous battle over the last several years, may form an alliance. It’s almost like Coke and Pepsi decided to get together to produce a soft drink together. I’d like to suggest a name for this mythical drink: Copsi.

But back to the story. MySpace launched in January 2004 and Facebook hit the scene one month later. But MySpace had an open admission policy — Facebook restricted its membership to college students. Gradually, Facebook opened up the doors to a wider audience.

While MySpace had more active members for the first few years of competition with Facebook, eventually the tides turned and Facebook became the more popular site. Now it looks like MySpace may acknowledge that Facebook is the champion in the social networking site war. The proposed partnership would allow members to share music and videos from MySpace over the Facebook network. In other words, Facebook would become the social networking platform and MySpace would become a content provider. In addition, MySpace members would be able to link their profiles to Facebook using the Facebook Connect service.