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Thoughts on the New Web

The reason I'm on SpaceHey, and the reason why a lot of people are on SpaceHey is  because the new web sucks.
Sure, there's the obvious nostalgia factor of Myspace being a huge part of a lot of people's lives back in the day, but it's also due to modern social media being the most boring, sterile, corporate environment it could be.

After Zucker suffocated Myspace, it all went downhill. Facebook was the first cookie-cutter platform, the first to force people to use their real-life identities, first to force personalised advertisement and to strip people of the personalisation factor that was so important during web 1.0. It started this trend of minimalistic sterile design that's considered the standard for most social media sites and websites in general today- and that sucks! 

I wanna see glitter again. I wanna see flaming text. I wanna see all the design that soulless web dev companies like Wix have labelled "unprofessional" and "ugly". Because that design has fucking personality. 

Of course corporate giants can't use that style, as they have to put on a big, important image for all the data-farming companies- so they make their applications just perfect for those conditions: stripped of personality, full of space for ads and promotions and MONEY.

That's why I hate the new web. The most you get is a profile pic, a name, and a bio- lucky if you get a personal banner. I wish we were still in the days when Youtube was run by the creators, not the advertisers, back when the web was a cool unexplored world you ventured onto once your parents were done with the phone. Sure, pages load quick but, man. 

BRING THE OLD WEB BACK.

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Fayth

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Yes maam. I miss being able to customize my page. I used to change my page for every season and probably changed it once a month . Now all you can do is change your profile picture or banner. I never wanted to go to Facebook but a lot of my friends were like we are going to Facebook and I was like no its so boring. But some of my friends are internet friends so I had to follow or loose my friends but Ive missed Myspace so bad. Im tired of the cookie cutter pages and I think so many people have losts their identities bc everything is so cookie cutter. I miss the glitter. I miss the bling. I miss having a song that was just you when people came onto your page.


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☆TotallyBlingedOut☆

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couldnt agree more!! i just hate how oversimplifed, bland & boring the modern web is. not to mention how SENSITIVE everyone is, especially those neopronoun tiktok weirdos. one bad move and you're cancelled and doxxed. i miss how fun the web used to be


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my god, you're like reading my thoughts! I really miss the time when people treated the internet like just a hobby, not caring what people say because, well, it's the internet, anyone can do and say anything. now the lines between the internet and real life are nearly non-existent and this generation of chronically online kids is just making the whole experience kind of exhausting- I had to delete basically all the social media because every time I'd go on there on the front page it would ALWAYS be some negative dumbass drama or latest quirk that if you dare disagree with, you get virtually crucified. fucking annoying.

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yep, 100%! some people have just merged themselves into online discourse so much that they physically cannot see past all the buzzwords and unnecessary drama online- I've seen too many people take whatever opinion is trending and run with it, even if it's literally wrong. what bothers me is how many people take the time to make videos and angry comments about the most pointless topics, like the whole shit with neopronouns- there are people being murdered just for being gay in other countries but no, we'd rather focus on some chronically online discourse that nobody cares about outside of a little bubble on tiktok.

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R0gU3_K3y5

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I feel this. I really miss when the internet was wild! You actually saw beautiful sits then and not like you said, cookie cutter sites. I also miss the good old days of IRCs, chatrooms, instant messengers and most of all, I miss when we were pirates. A lot of good torrents are dead now days. Though a few good private trackers are still going, its no where near the days of old...


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god I totally agree, I miss it when the internet was just forums n shit, that was probably the golden age

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bowie

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There’s too much choice and too much content these days. I saw some quote about dial up modems screaming at us when we connected to the internet: “they were trying to warn us of the future!”


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haha yep, you literally can't disconnect from the internet now

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Kinda funny they call it airplane mode but there’s wifi on airplanes now. Ha anyways I feel like I’m in good company here

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Kylie

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Exactly! What was even the point in getting rid of css/html customization features on social media? Any more profiles are bleak copies of each other rather than interesting copies of each other. I hate how advertisers and large corporations are starting to determine who can post or what can be posted as well


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it's just all a censored echochamber now :(!

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XxmikasaurxX

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i agree the web rn is soooo boring and horrible:,( myspace4ever!!!!


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myspace lives onnnn

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it does ^_^

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amma

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THIS!!! im so sick of having 2 walk on eggshells around ppl cause the internet is a fucking echochamber!!! im so sick of everyone copying faccebook and tiktok its GROSS and even discord is doing it too!! my god i cant wait 2 delete facebook once my grandma passes (luv u grandma). gah, i just hope that anyone who comes here comes w common sense and doesnt expect this site 2 be an echochamber. gross af. everyone talks the same nowadays!!!


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Really reminds me of how I went to check up on ICQ only to find out it's a carbon copy of fucking facebook messenger now. Don't even get me started on tiktok, that's a cesspool for the most obnoxious kids enabled by the most obnoxious adults ong

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omg fuck tiktok especially alt tiktok. "u cant be alt unless ur leftist" stfu bitch LMAO I can be alt without liking blm

by amma; ; Report

istg some of the people on there really need to touch some grass- especially the mfs who think dream smp members live in their head or the mfs who use ghost/fire/pog pronouns unironically (yep I've literally seen that, it's not even a joke anymore)

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I'm in a kandi server w ppl that have DID who have fucking dream smp alters and neopronouns and its just. eugh. burn tiktok

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fax I was in a server full of them and literally every single one was self-diagnosed- they all shitted on therapists for "invalidating" them because they wouldn't confirm they had DID. Wild ride.

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every bitch has fuckin DID on Discord I dont understand it, before there werent as many but now EVERYONE is a system and a lot of them have dream smp alters eugh. I wish some servers werent full of retards, makes me wish I wasn't lgbt

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man I get how you feel, I just avoid that shit as much as possible or make fun of it. honestly cause it's mostly kids and tweens engaging in this stuff I hope they grow out of it and come to their senses soon

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Elohimless 🤘🇵🇷

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I completely agree the web today is boring as hell, it's sanitized, it's censored, it's political and takend over by corporations. The web in the old days was fun, you were able to express yourself without being censored. OG MySpace, Xanga, Bebo & early YouTube gave you the ability to show your personality/interests by letting you customize your profile. . .I've always HATED Facebook for forcing people to use their Government name (and add their School, job, and any other personal identifiable information) I deleted my Facebook/Instagram accounts a month ago. . .Facebook destroyed the fabric of society and the internet (a lot of people today create a YouTube channel & use their GOVERNMENT name instead of a unique username & I blame Facebook for that!).


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You're completely right. The fact they made people use their real pictures and names started to blur the lines between the Internet and real life, so people started seeing the web as less of a hobby and more of a lifestyle which is how we eventually got to today's climate online :/

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