I used to hate myspace but now I feel kinda bad for him tbh

was it jon stewart or colbert who called myspace "the abandoned amusement park of the internet"?

quaint

why is myspace SO GODAMNED SLOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9c_1V_eTlw

RIP

I'm only on MySpace to keep up to date with one person. Who is not answering my PMs right now.

(Sorry, I'm actually following two people. )

Maybe myspace tom can buy it back from rupert murdoch for, like, $12.50, eh.

always shocked that makeoutclub and livejournal still exist

it's nice to think about News Corp blowing all that money on myspace.

The amateurish design problems always blew my mind, especially in that little period of time when people were still using it and refusing to switch to facebook.

even though i haven't logged in in months i always kinda liked myspace. it's tacky and stupid, but whatevs. it can be good for finding music/ bands etc. and i appreciated the level of anonymity allowed (which i seem to remember originally being a problem on facebook?? i may be wrong on that...). my name was something like ♠♣♂♣♥♦♪♫ on ms for years, and i gotta tell you, i had a lot fewer god-bothering, tea-partying nitwits who went to my high school trying to "friend" me all the time.

It's the last big carrier of the Geocities aesthetic flame, which makes me love it & lol at it at the same time.

Wow, you wanna talk about being shocked that a social networking site still exists: http://www.sixdegrees.com

always shocked that makeoutclub and livejournal still exist

LiveJournal's a useful site for fanfiction writers.

Pappawheelie OTM the real forgotten space is friendster, which Facebook is basically a carbon copy of

It's the last big carrier of the Geocities aesthetic flame, which makes me love it & lol at it at the same time.

― Warum habt Ihr mich totgefüttert? (Abbott), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:45 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Can a band really become popular based on MySpace?

I feel kinda bad for new bands (including one of my own)

who wants to go through the pointless hassle of setting up a myspace page now? but facebook is not very music friendly

Is MySpace a legit replacement for the zine culture of the 80s/90s?

facebook isn't that bad for music but it definitely makes it harder to personally reach people. I probably never would have gotten my first album released (on Resonant) if it weren't for myspace. we never use it now but it definitely had it's uses there for a while.

yeah myspace is better/easier for bands to use... but now the only people on myspace are bands. reaching people as a band via facebook fucking blows. I hate Facebook.

was just talking w/ friends yesterday abt how awesome 90s geocities pages were

http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/538604/the-other-social-network.jhtml

"You can't leave me! I was your first friend! I was everybody's first friend..."

My vewy first web page was a Geocities page. It made me feel like a goof even though I didn't yet know how to make a real website.

yeah, myspace is dead but it's still the fastest way to check out a couple songs from a band.

^^^This. Just last week a booker wanted to know if I want to split a night with some unknown-to-me band, and the band's myspace made me say yes. (And trying to find new bandmates has led me to say Hell NO!!!)

oh yeah, i turned down a show recently because of the same reason (basically I saw 'san diego' and some PARTY mentions on the band's profile and was like, 'uh, yeah, we are wrong for this bill')

Every time I open up the account I use for ILX webmail, I encounter a barrage of Friendster updates & reminders & I get a little pang of melancholy/guilt. Poor Friendster - all they want is for me to remember my friends' birthdays & yet I have treated them w. complete indifference & neglect, just like everyone else. At least they still have the Korean youth (or last I knew anyway).

believe it was the philippines iirc

yeah, myspace is dead but it's still the fastest way to check out a couple songs from a band.

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bandcamp dude

although still loathe the name

myspace jumped the shark pretty much on the day that murdoch bought it. I mean, the writing was on the wall beforehand, but I don't think I checked my page more than twice after that. Why? Because there just aren't enough advertisements on myspace! I need more cross-promotions with the hottest musical acts!

allowing users to customize the layouts so such a degree was def a better idea in theory than in practice. I pretty much steered clear from myspace from the beginning just b/c most of it looked so horrible.

myspace killed friendster w/code - facebook killed myspace w/design

myspace >>>>>>>> facebook...it's much wilder and weirder and myspace has music.

xp If by "design" you also mean "ease of use" and "utility". It didn't win just by being prettier, though it's certainly that.

Latest statistics suggest attempts to kick new life into MySpace may be failing.

Tech industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February.

There were almost 63 million users of MySpace in February 2011, down from more than 73 million.

Year on year the site has lost almost 50 million users, down from close to 110 million in February 2010.

The loss of users comes despite a series of changes to the site to make it more about music.

It was the social network site that helped launch the careers of artists like Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and Lily Allen.

But so far this year MySpace has already announced plans to cut half its workforce.

"FUnny People" didn't \save Myspace?!?!?

The loss of users comes despite a series of changes to the site to make it more about music.

It was quite amazing, the way everyone gave up on maintaining their band pages almost overnight after the redesign.

It was the social network site that helped launch the careers of artists like Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and Lily Allen.

PR bullshit, did anyone actually believe this?
Bye-bye Myspace, it was real.

It was the social network site that helped launch the careers of artists like Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash and Lily Allen.

Good reason to hate myspace

What the hell did they DO to the thing? It used to be a moderately useful electronic PR sheet for my band. It's so slow now it's completety useless.

It's like visiting Tokyo during a fireworks display while the sun has an epileptic fit.

Conspiracy theories abound - Facebook secretly bought Myspace just to destroy it etc etc

Facebook secretly bought Myspace just to destroy it

I wish this would actually happen tbh

It's a suicidal redesign to rival AMG's effort a few years back.

i got a virus last time I went to myspace. it made me feel even more sorry for it.
"funny people" kinda an appropriate myspace movie: ex-moderately decent but extraordinarily popular young person thing turned surly sad bastard being a dick to everyone. a dick to me, anyway.