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so, it has been exactly 1 yr since my journey on spacehey began, february 10th, 2021, 2 b more specific. my life has changed 4 the better ever since i joined this site. my mental health was getting a lot better after having experienced the shit show that was 2020 going in2 2021, much like every1 else on this world. but w spacehey, i was able 2 bond w ppl who understood and had the same interests as me.
i initially discovered spacehey abt a month prior 2 joining. i was a bit skeptical abt joining the site bc i thought i wouldn't find any1 w the same interests as me, and i also thought the platform would b exactly like instagram, twitter, tiktok, or facebook, as i did not experience the og myspace era of the mid-aughts.
however, i made up my mind and decided 2 give it a go, even saying 2 myself during the process of cre8ing my account, "alright adrien, this is it. no turning back." and i ultim8ly stayed tru 2 my word, and within 2 months of being on spacehey, i already started 2 make my way of what i thought the og myspace era would've been like had i been old enough during that time. i cre8ed my own layout 4 the first time, i started making blog posts, forum topics, made a bunch of friends w ppl who have similar interests as i do, made a group that now has 2300+ members, posted a bunch of bulletins, and gained a following overall. also l8r on during my spacehey run, i deleted all my social media. my instagram, my twitter, and my snapchat, and ever since then, my mental health has been getting a lot better. i still struggle from the lasting results, but it's not as dominant as it was abt a yr and a half ago pre-spacehey.
w/o spacehey, my mental health and wellbeing would not have improved as much as it did over the past yr, and i would not b sitting on my bed writing this blog post, nor would i have the following that i have now, interacting w the ppl who have added me or have accepted my friend requests and meeting them.
i wanted 2 make this blog post 2 say thank u sm 2 all the ppl who have added me, who have accepted my friend requests, and have been super supportive of me during my run on spacehey 4 the past yr now. ur all amazing and i'm very gr8ful 4 y'all. and ik i have said this so many times @ this point, but it has been a HUGE, HUGE privilege joining this platform and meeting so many friends and meeting new ppl. sure, spacehey has had sum bumps along the way, but in the end, it's all worth it.
again, thank u sm 2 every1 on spacehey, and especially an, the cre8or of this website. u not only changed my life, and possibly every1 else's, 4 the better, but u did not go the route that many social media platforms have been going, thus resulting in negative reactions and perceptions and criticisms regarding mental health and body image (i.e. instagram, facebook, twitter, tumblr, snapchat, and tiktok).
hopefully spacehey will continue 2 grow even bigger in 2022 w/o going the route of other social media networks we have now, w new features and upd8es, a growing userbase, and much more 2 come.
i hope 2 continue my spacehey journey, like make more layouts, post more blogs, bulletins, and forum topics, make more groups, and other stuff 2 do on this platform.
ilusm and i will c u soon!! bye bye!!
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Bhanu
I'm a big fond of Myspace, I enjoyed using the platform 14 years ago, when the myspace is down / changed, the zuckerberg and facebook came along, I remember first thing I searched in facebook was how to customize the profile, we couldn't, and ultimately, we can't meet new people that easy like we do in Myspace / Spacehey, No blogs in facebook at all, even though there are articles nobody paid any attention whatsoever.. it's like a sad social media platform that i'm stuck in where all my friends are in. It's true that my mental health was soo different and wonderful when I experienced Myspace, and then competition has begun among all the social platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and now tiktok) who copies from one another, I'm a software developer, when we're building a project, one of the feature was to add stories to our app, I don't understand what people just copy others, but the uniqueness of Myspace / Spacehey that people actually love using can never be beaten. It defines who you are just by looking at your customized profile!!! I'm so glad that An re-created this platform, I hope it grows well, and never be down. let's hope for the best, it's time to delete my other nonsense social media (Facebook, instagram, etc.) :)
Crash Test Dummy!1
This website gives me hope in humanity:3
Shadow Bliss
Yeah. I wrote a blog post on social media in general on LiveJournal that I only recently shared on here and my attitude about it is simple - these sites ARE going to alter the way humans communicate as we know it, why not make it actually enjoyable?
SpaceHey and LiveJournal are enjoyable (LiveJournal doesn't get a lot of traffic but its still fun to read some of that stuff). Instagram...frankly I haven't had my account there long but from what I've seen, it doesn't really have the toxicity of Facebook, by comparison.
With Facebook...I am there to meet up with real life friends. I am CONSTANTLY hounded by "here is a page with David Bowie photos! You like Bowie right?!" "Here is some news about Doctor Who!" "James Bond!" "The Queen!" (why the fuck would I care about that?) "Married At First Sight" (again, why would I care?) "Politics!" (why would I go to Facebook for that and not...a news site?) "An 80s Goth rock artist you haven't thought about in months at least" "The same fucking meme 4 times in a row!" and eventually its like "ENOUGH! I just want to know what my real life friends are doing!" "They're reposting that shit." I am a daily user but I get frustrated and log off within half an hour.
If I log off of SpaceHey or LiveJournal that quickly, its literally just because that was how long it took to get through the updates.
z
This is so awesome to read! I joined a year ago as well, and while I haven't built the big network or gained followers really, it is so great to see people thriving on here.
I was hugely into the original myspace, to the level of planning out meeting up with strangers as a teen (we outsmarted them by showing up as a group lol) and following "fashion blogs" that turned out to be, like, eastern european lingerie stores.
It's funny how much less safe the internet is, now, but the danger has changed; people are less likely to get catfished and kidnapped, but mental health is plummetting because of the instant dopamine culture. Coming to a place like Spacehey, we have all this knowledge that we gained as a society in the past 15 years on how to stay physically safe online, but we get to unlock the creativity (like learning CSS!!!) that we didn't really have access to on non-modifiable sites like facebook and twitter.
So much of those other sites involve interacting in a way that will make people like us, garner positive responses, reinforce belief systems or share outrage or passion with a huge group of people who are all feeling the same things. Here, making a page is a totally personal choice whether you code it or you pick out the perfect premade for you, and all the decorations are things every single person decides represents them as a person, rather than just reshares of whatever is trending.
Spacehey a beautiful place, maybe more beautiful than Myspace ever was because of the people working so passionately to make it wonderful; and I'm so glad a new generation of users have access to it.