Welcome To The Great Anachronism :-)

I saw when SpaceHey launched and people were like, "Hey look.  The return of old-school MySpace."  I don't drink, but when I got curious about this platform and its various throwbacks to the social media of the 2000s, I definitely had a "Hold My Beer" moment.  :o)

The 2000s was totally my decade, considering the problems of the 2010s and even more problems in the 2020s.  I think if it weren't for The Great Recession, or if the financial crisis had happened in 2010 instead of 2008 the 2000s would be one of the most fondly-remembered decades in a generation, but every rose has its thorn, and history is what it is.

Now that the 2000s are old enough that folks are starting to develop nostalgia for them (Zoomers are the ones making the news for that stuff these days), I could totally get into some 2000s nostalgia as well since I'm about as Millennial as it gets other than having never had avocado toast.  :o)

This SpaceHey page is a giant anachronism, but a fun one.  I never had a MultimediaJay page on the original MySpace, only a personal account.  However I remember vividly what my online presence was like back in those days when MS Office could be used to make personal web pages and it only took a little digging for me to find and convert over an old MySpace CSS generator to recreate the look and feel of my old neon and blue MySpace page back in the mid-2000s.

The page itself is going to remain an anachronistic joke.  :-)  I filled everything in like it was still the mid-2000s.  All American Rejects' "Move Along" will be the autoplaying embedded song (when it works) because that was the profile song I remember the most from when I first heard the song in 2005.  However for blog entries or correspondence I'll actually act like the MultimediaJay of today.  :o)

The profile picture is from 2006 from one of my first YouTube videos and a time when I actually made the front page of YouTube with a parody of Blendtec's "Will It Blend" videos called "Will It Nuke."  :-)

I'm looking to emulate the mid-2000s as well with what I type here, so no emojis, only old-fashioned emoticons.  :-D

As for friend requests, I'm looking specifically for folks just having fun on here and not using SpaceHey as a means to an end.  This is supposed to be a retro form of social media, so unless you're a musician I'm not so sure about friending folks who are clearly using their pages to plug their websites or businesses.  I didn't friend very many people except some family and church friends on the original MySpace either (aside from Tom of course lol), so not having too many friends might help keep things period-appropriate.  :-D

I still wonder though if the current owners of MySpace would ever consider buying SpaceHey and rebranding it as "MySpace Classic" but maybe they shouldn't considering folks probably don't want history to repeat itself.

Either way, 2000s nostalgia it is.  I may even utilize my Dailymotion channel for reuploads of my old school YouTube videos moreso than it currently is right now.  I don't think the stuff I made in the mid to late 2000s really has a place on 2020s YouTube with how much things have changed over the years.

Today's social media is often "socially-mediated" by algorithms and other forms of computers keeping people from interacting with each other in various ways.  It's great to see a break from all that over here, even if I regularly see flustered tweets from the folks running the servers.  :-)

In any event, anachronism or not, welcome to my SpaceHey page.  :-)