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Like, don't you think it's weird that there is over a million users here, yet this site is also very inactive. I don't mean inactive as nobody ever logs in, no, because there is people posting blogs and bulletins and talking to people every minute, I mean inactive in interactions. Someone can have a hundred friends, and i bet you that they have only spoken to one or two of those friends. The same thing goes for blogs and bulletins, nobody ever interacts with them despite how many are made by the minute, more specifically blogs (and the same thing will probably happen to this one. No comments, no kudos.) And not to mention the fact that top blog entries are based purely on views which makes all of them be stuck at the top for half a month, and, I don't know about you, but for me, having the same blog on top blog entries that long makes me not even want to go to the blog section at all, which is probably the reason why there is so much inactivity in the blog section, and let's not even begin to talk about the absolute graveyard that is forums and groups. Ask a question in the HTML group? You get a response so late that you have already figured it out yourself, and, genuinely, the forums are just... It's not about the interaction for forums anymore, because there isn't anything to interact with over there, genuinely nobody ever uses forums, I've looked into the section two times.
So, I ask you this question, what do the million of users on this site, do, that makes them so inactive in the social parts of the website. This place is for friends, it's to socialize, BUT NOBODY SOCIALIZES, at least not for me. It seems like people are only to vent (Which isn't wrong but the diary option is RIGHT. THERE.) To collect friends like pokemon and then just edit their layout, that's it, and I feel like SpaceHey has become more inactive since they closed of the option to post layouts. I'm not really sure how to end this blog, I just wanted to voice how ridiculous all of this is, and how people are only here to make their account aesthetic then never join again, and before you say "oh but you can't just expect to make friends without communicating or sending them a friend request" I literally do that all the time, and what happens? You get ghosted, or the person doesn't accept your request at all. Was this site ever active to begin with? Or did everyone just join out of the fact that it was trending on tiktok for a few weeks. It’s disappointing to see a platform with so much potential for meaningful interaction reduced to this state. I’m not sure how to conclude this post, but I just wanted to voice my frustration with how the site has evolved—or rather, how it hasn’t. If the focus is supposed to be on building connections, why does it feel like nobody here truly wants to socialize or have a genuine interaction?
That's basically all, thanks for making it this far.
(Edit: Okay, I was not expecting this post to make it to top blog entries, I really thought it would get lost in the bunch. But thank you everyone for commenting and giving kudos :3)
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lith
spacehey is still massive
sasamochi21
I think it's cuz of the current social media landscape, like most socials nowadays are used for consuming content instead of creating and connecting with people so the art of making friends online has been kinda lost
VirtualAngelAmir
Not just here but also in other platforms as well. They want to be mutuals and when you try to start a conversation they freaking ignore you. Those types of people usually only wants boost on their account and grab likes.
SWEETLLEAF✩
I just joined but this is some pretty good insight. I'm surprised to hear they closed the option to upload your own layouts as that's one of the interesting parts about this site. Anyone happen to know why? :/
Due to g0re raid,people and possibly also bots were spamming g0re pictures in “Layouts “ and because of that,it’s closed.
by angry bosnian dude; ; Report
Repulture
I have been using Spacehey for 1 year and I have only made friends with one person, the rest of my friends seem like ghosts
𓅂 Mαтт 🇧🇷
i agree totally with your blog , the social spirit on spacehey its almost empty when we talk about met new friendships or finding an user who even wants to interact , but this applies to internet in general (not just spacehey) , and about such million users who joined there (most part of them joined to try out spacehey by curiosity and them after noticing the difficult to find a decent user or friendship to talk and seeing them barely answers , thats one of the reasons why many people left spacehey , about those who adds thousands or hundrends of users on friends list are the typical known friend collectors who are seeking for attention or trying to get followers to then later judging they are popular just because the numbers on the friends list , about the blog sections and forum sections i agree too there is no much interesting activity on it wich may be disapointing too , and lets not forget about the lack of users who speak another language wich may limit the experience to some users too and that is one another reason for many people left too unfortunately . Besides that spacehey stills being a good place that brings the vibes from the old web and the profile customization using css codes and html makes it unique nowdays.
Rory :3
I'm a bit guilty of some of these things, such as not posting or not interacting with other peoples posts, but the reason for that is because its so hard to work up the motivation to log on here because this site is literally dead. Like i was inactive on Spacehey for months and only just started logging on again recently and nothing has changed at all. Its a wasteland. I feel that people are so used to the idea of growing a follower base and becoming "popular" that when it comes to using social media for their intended purpose, like having one on one interactions with other people and having discussions, they immediately get scared. it honestly sucks.
Lydia ☆ Valeria's #1 fan
Yeah ngl I only have a few people on here that I talk to because other people just never blog or post bulletins. I do kinda like how slow paced this site is though, it's nice to not have the pressure of having to reply within an hour or you're a "bad friend"
Vamps
Honestly for me I use SpaceHey for its customization. I have social anxiety and hearing about raids and the like discourages me from participating... it's also hard to gauge how old the users are. I personally would LOVE to make some friends but I'm not very active here and I want to keep my friends 16+ on the MINIMUM. I'm also just a generally socially awkward human and I struggle to even make new IRL friends.
Nexuscherry💖💗💓💞💕✨🌈
I just got here and it makes me so sad, cause this site's concept and how they remake old blog sites is genuinely so so cool. If I need to stand on the street, handing out flyers, I will cause omg I love how I can make my profile and look at all the cool layouts.
xeviant (on break)
i get it. its frustrating rlly.
(honestly i cant really say much because i do have a big friend count and ive been inactive for about half a month now ;_; so i havent been interacting w/ ppl much on here.)
the thing is, a lot of ppl start viewing spacehey as just another social media like tiktok or insta, but spacehey wasnt made to be that. a lot of people here view friends as sort of a "followers" number, which i personally dislike bc the whole point of spacehey is to like. make friends right.
idk thats what i feel is happening, but just pitching in my half of a cent ;v;
Rtchoke
I think people love the idea of SpaceHey but are often too afraid to chat with people and literally don't know how to keep a conversation going. I also think that the fact that we interact with our irl friends over text and other apps makes it less active. During MySpace, people chatted with people they knew IRL a lot.
///_^ReadObituaries^_\\\
I understand what you mean. I am 30 years old- so my first ever social media was a myspace. Back then (say, 2005-2006?) everyone was on myspace. I had tons of socialization because all my IRL friends were on myspace. I didn't even talk to strangers hardly. Now? I'm finding it hard to 1) find people that I feel are age appropriate to talk to. I'm okay with 18+ but I really prefer 23-25+. and 2) no one I know uses it. So, its just a little difficult. I'm hoping now that tiktok is banned- well see an influx of people.
lets be friends :) , im 21+
by Kiyraq; ; Report
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Hiii I'm 26!!!!!!
by Yα𝚋αι𝚋αι╭(′▽`)╯; ; Report
jaiden :3
Isn't it obvious? People just get bored and don't come back or do like every 5 months.
comu
There isn't really much on this site to do imo. I left for roughly a year before I came back to it and even then I'm pretty inactive.
✶Rib𓆩𓁺𓆪Eye Black Dragon✶
TOTES AGREE !! I want to suggest that the SpaceHey team should have a "Top Blog" for a reasonable duration of time and immediately switch to the latest ones. Not to mention, when browsing to certain categories, I want to read the NEWEST made blogs, not the same top blogs of that time.
As for the inactivity... idk about others, but me personally, I'm easily distracted and kind of shy to talk to. SpaceHey is such a comfy site to reside in where I can curate the kind of people I want to interact with, but the staff is terribly inactive aside from moderations and suspending accounts.
Francis
I totally agree on this one too, and aside from that I remember the constant petty drama and fucked up raids that happened here that made me stray away from this website so much
kikiDAfreaki
Alot of apps usually start off dead at first, my best advice is wait for the app grow more as time goes on, atleast that's what I hope can happen.
Yeah this app is half a decade old with a million users but it's still pretty dead
by Cxndy; ; Report
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yess u make a good point and i am also kinda frustrated that ppl dont interact w each other as much as they should to make it fun, but i also agree w another persons comment that i saw which basically said that we dont know how to start conversations from the cold. and when two ppl who dont know how to converse get together and try to talk it doesnt work trust me it has ahppened to me a few times
im like that bcos i mainly avoid embarrassment and awkwardness like the plague
meriney
i think a significant part of it is that it doesn’t feel as intuitive as normal social media does since that is what people are used to nowadays. it doesn’t have the same sort of social rules and etiquette, so people are left a little unsure of how to go about doing anything. additionally, it doesn’t really suck you in and addict you like normal socials do, (which is a good thing) so most people are just going to go back to other sites and forget about this one, never spending enough time on it to familiarize themselves or build any sort of connections.
and really, like someone else commented, it is, for a lot of people, a one time nostalgia or novelty thing. they make an account and poke around a bit but ultimately leave it and forget about it.
Yeah I guess so, it is kinda nostalgia thing but half the people here weren't even born to see Myspace yet, so I'm confused on what nostalgia they supposedly look for, either way it's still sad because I think this place would be better if everyone was a little more active and not just be here for nostalgia
by Cxndy; ; Report
i feel like a lot of gen z have a nostalgia for old internet because they desire for an internet that wasn’t so brain damaging as it is today. like the idea of an internet that was more of a wild west and with more creativity and a lack of algorithms designed by corporations to addict you (which is a near universal gen z experience) is appealing. and because a lot of gen z was so young during that time period, it’s like the memory (even if they can’t actually remember it) of a simpler time.
anyways yeah i agree. kind of sad a site with such potential isn’t really seeing much really meaningful engagement and interaction.
by meriney; ; Report