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MySpace will forever leave an impact. I remember a few days before the 2012 wipe happened, I was still logging in to send a message or two to people I spoke to on MySpace, but not Facebook.
By 2010 I knew MySpace was doomed, dead, the past. Friends had migrated to Facebook summer 2007 and it seemed like everyone and their pet donkey were on FB by summer 2008.
MySpace was different. You could message people with the same hobbies, add each other and talk. If someone random adds you on FB you're like... That's creepy.
I still interact with a lot of people I met on MySpace, on FB to this day. Some I have met some IRL, but that's not the point. MySpace was people connecting in the good old days of early social media, reconnecting with friends and making new ones. Before everyone was going nuts over being offended over points that don't affect them, and constant arguing. Of course, it existed back in the day, it just seems so much more prolific now.
Funny how MySpace gave us no warning of the wipe and have tried so hard to cover it up. There is hardly anything about it on Wikipedia either, except one sentence (there was a small paragraph but it kept getting "deleted").
You're telling me the major social networking site for pretty much everyone in the world at that time, thought it would be ok to erase that period from history?
Well, after a week of being angry I shrugged my shoulders and moved on.
I still feel some nostalgia about MySpace. It was a special time, we had internet, we had everythings modern... Yet it was before smartphones took over everyone's life.
Before all your work colleagues and every single relative was on your social media account.
For a while I found Tumblr a kind of MySpace replacement, but of course that went tits up aswell and is pretty much dead now.
I'm glad this website is up. I'm glad a few of us remember and got to experience MySpace, and social media 1.0. Facebook may die, we all move on to the next thing... But still, MySpace and the pre smartphone era will always have a place in history.
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Aaaaaaron
Agreed. I have SO many friends in real life that I met on MySpace, while maybe Facebook has generated a handful (usually through friends of friends from MySpace but whatever). MySpace was truly for the people, faults and all. Facebook's main user is the advertiser, unfortunately.
I think the people who said why MySpace died (some logical but inaccurate reasons like html customisation to completely random like "it had a top 8") didn't get why people used it.
Between 2007-2009, I was perfectly happy having Facebook as a clean, more professional network for networking and friends. And MySpace for making new internet friends. Having just Facebook kinda sucked, even though it's great in it's own way.
The whole alternative MySpace vibe, how you use it, some people just won't understand as it's simply not for them.
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