The Demise of MySpace

😭💔 It still hurts lol.

In the beginning, allowing users to customize profiles with HTML and CSS was a happy accident for Myspace. It was the world's leading social media platform for about five years. If you were there, you remember.   

In 2008/2009, TOM was stripped of his title!  Myspace pivoted focus away from users and toward advertising. New ads combined with customized layouts caused security concerns. 

We know the rest of the story. Ultimately, a failure to focus on what its community wanted depleted its significance. 

Myspace essentially vanished in doing away with code editing as it took half-hearted steps to mimic Facebook’s “sterilized” accounts. That hemorrhaged their users. Almost ironically, that heartbreak caused the majority of them to leave for other platforms that also wouldn’t allow layout editing.

A decade (under the influence lol) later, Myspace “accidentally” lost 12 years of content. With data gone for good, it finally marked an end to a meaningful Internet era.

Resources cited: 

- ScreenRant.com/why-when-myspace-failed/amp/

- Productmint.com/what-happened-to-myspace/

- Codeacademy.com/resources/blog/myspace-and-the-coding-legacy/amp/