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Last night I was in an Uber home from a friend's apt and at one point I thought to myself, "Ooh let's check spacehey." And then I realized that I was, indeed, using MySpace on my phone in an Uber at 2am in 2020. It made me think about if 2005 Jess ever foresaw such an event occurring so far into the future.
And that makes me think of how things with this website will actually pan out. I want to just enjoy the ride as it comes but I can't help but wonder how short lived this joyride might be. I think so many things that we are nostalgic about today slipped from our hands so suddenly we just kind of blinked and things were changing. Or at least that's how I see things. I'd like to think that there are more people than I realize that needed this website as much as I did and that we will keep it going. I can't even begin to describe the feelings that I feel having seen some profiles that bring be straight back to 2005. If you're reading this and that's you, just know that I love you.
MySpace had such a special dynamic to early social media, I feel. I made friends on MySpace 15 years ago that I still talk to to this very day. As an adult whose path didn't end up in college, it's definitely been more difficult making lasting friends over the years. And the older we are, the more our priorities change and we go about life differently. But I love the thought of chatting with a stranger about our obscure music taste for hours and it's something that I feel has been discouraged with current social media almost. Interactions in present day social media are based on short, easily digestible content. Sure you can have a conversation through instagram dms or twitter dms/back and forths but it's definitely not the way things used to be. I miss reading through someone's list of 87 bands on their profile. I love doing and reading surveys and finding out random ass facts about someone. I love creating a cursed chain of people through bulletins that you add and comment on each other's profiles.
Another thing I think about is how much I have to thank an 18 year old for lol. Really did not expect the creator of this site to be someone that hadn't even gotten the chance to experience MySpace back in the day but I'm so glad that he saw something special in his research and felt the need to recreate that for us. An, thank you for your creativity and hard work!
Welp, welcome to my thought process that I decided not to just delete for once.
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