Myspace in 2025

I might sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I’ve been part of a small community that logs into Myspace every few months, hoping for signs of a revamp, life, or a post from one of my 1,100 friends from 20 years ago.

In 2024 and 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, there’s been some movement.

Social Media

Myspace relaunched its social media side in 2013, calling it a “Stream.” This feature broke around 2016 and was abandoned, making the website unusable. Users could no longer comment on posts, post statuses, or change profile or background photos.

Music

For a short while, Myspace had a music library, but it broke in 2015. They linked every song to YouTube, embedding mini videos. This also broke in 2016 and was abandoned.

Myspace’s Own Social Media

The last post on their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter was in 2017. These accounts remain abandoned.

The Homepage

While no one was writing direct articles, they fed in content from other websites, making Myspace look active. This stopped in 2022.

The Data Loss in 2019

The rich history of photos and videos on Myspace was a big draw, especially with the “Throwback Thursday” trend. Around 50 million people worldwide revisited the site on Thursdays to grab old gems to share on Instagram and Facebook. However, when Myspace lost most of that data, it was probably the final nail in the coffin for Thursday traffic.

2022 Onwards

The website became unusable. Not even a cult following could use it. No music player, no social media features, and no articles.

Why Would the Owners Care?

Myspace exists as a giant database of customer leads. It was sold to a company with zero interest in the website itself, but as a giant phone book of leads.

What’s Happening in 2024?

• June: They fixed posting statuses.
• September: They fixed photo uploading and updated their homepage profile pic and top 8.
• December: They fixed their music player to play YouTube videos again and uploaded new articles to the homepage.

The website is currently down if you click the stream, and the homepage goes down every few days.

Perspective

The music player has been broken for 8 years, and the social media site has been falling apart for 7 years. They are working on the website, but no one knows why. There’s zero media coverage, and no one is talking about it on social media.

I’ve written to some media outlets, as I think this would make a great story, but so far, no response.

If Myspace posted just a pair of eyeball emojis on their X/Facebook/Insta, it would garner headline media news and trend worldwide.

What Will Myspace Bring in 2025?

I think there’s still room for a social media platform similar to LinkedIn but for content creators, freelancers, videographers, musicians, and more to show off a portfolio. Myspace could definitely support that.

Maybe even a simplified social media platform where Facebook and Instagram are bloated with bans, algorithm issues, and clickbait. X/Twitter is a place of political activism (not that I don’t support that!), but a social media website with a simplistic approach could be what we all need in 2025