There planning on bringing MySpace back

[Travel memoir21]

There planning on bringing MySpace back...I never really had an account back then. Is MySpace worth the hype?

 

[BaronOfHair]

Wasn't aware that it ever vanished completely

 

[Travel memoir21]

Wasn't aware that it ever vanished completely

Did you have your account back in the day? I know I didn’t.

 

[quodlibet]

Oh, just what we need. More social media.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Did you have your account back in the day? I know I didn’t.

Yeah, I did. It may still even be active

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

It's not going to be like it used to be. Any platform created now will have the same exact features as any other social media: AI algorithms, bots, ragebaiting, and OF farming accounts. Just look at Threads, it's literally NOTHING but ragebaiting/engagement baiting OF/bot accounts; there's a reason no one uses it.

There hasn't been a successful new social media platform in almost ten years, with Tiktok being the last major one (which many people don't realize was launched wayyy back in 2016).

I think social media is well past it's saturation point. The only platforms that I can see surviving over the years is FB, IG, and X, and IG/FB seems to be dying. X is the only platform that I can see maintaining a legitimate use case, though I can't stand it myself and have never once used it.

 

[Bible_Belt]

MySpace made its way back when Facebook required a .edu email to join. Then Zuck realized he could open it up to everyone to farm their data and make himself a billionaire.

 

[MatureDJ]

MySpace made its way back when Facebook required a .edu email to join. Then Zuck realized he could open it up to everyone to farm their data and make himself a billionaire.

I think the idea was to limit it to .edu so that it could work out the kinks.

 

[MatureDJ]

MySpace was basically Facebook before Facebook. The problem with MySpace is that there was too much leeway in allowing users to amp up their pages, and it looked like sheet.

 

[Bible_Belt]

MySpace was basically Facebook before Facebook. The problem with MySpace is that there was too much leeway in allowing users to amp up their pages, and it looked like sheet.

They also didnt control spamming. DJs, club promoters, and strippers would send everyone messages constantly.

 

[corrector]

I don't remember much about 90s/00s slow dial-up internet. I remember you had AOL online, or you'd use a CD drive, which was the big thing back then to load up programs and connect to the internet. MySpace feels like a dinosaur. Don't feel much nostalgia to early internet days but they made life more interesting as a teenager/young adult. Even extremely low res graphics were a treat in those days.

 

[Mike32ct]

Maybe that guy T o m will still be my friend lol.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Maybe that guy T o m will still be my friend lol.

Presumably Colbie Cailat is still releasing tunes on this platform also

 

[MatureDJ]

They also didnt control spamming. DJs, club promoters, and strippers would send everyone messages constantly.

Hmm, I never got any strippers messaging me. I would have asked if the gal does nightcaps.

 

[BaronOfHair]

Hmm, I never got any strippers messaging me. I would have asked if the gal does nightcaps.

So even back in the 2000s, your enthusiasm for approaching out in the wild was STILL more non-existent than Corey Feldman's "acting" career, post-Licencse To Drive?

 

[RoadKing_Rabbit]

I don't remember much about 90s/00s slow dial-up internet. I remember you had AOL online, or you'd use a CD drive, which was the big thing back then to load up programs and connect to the internet. MySpace feels like a dinosaur. Don't feel much nostalgia to early internet days but they made life more interesting as a teenager/young adult. Even extremely low res graphics were a treat in those days.

Commander Keen is the SH1T!!!!

I'll believe they're bringing it back when I see it back. And I don't think for one moment they won't riddle it to the point of not using it due to ad spamming and some incorporated form of algorithm doom scrolling while promising a "setting" that doesn't work to "turn it off."

 

[Bible_Belt]

The "online now" that would flash next to someone's name was stalkerrific.


Keep in mind this was in the day and age of desktop computers. So you knew someone was home, and not out with someone else.

 

[Clockwerk50]

The "online now" that would flash next to someone's name was stalkerrific.
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Keep in mind this was in the day and age of desktop computers. So you knew someone was home, and not out with someone else.

I went to a high school in Atlanta that was about 60-70% Black, and I ended up in the romanticized “gangster” social circle. My MySpace consisted of pictures of Dwyane Wade and Lebron James, Black models in bikinis because I was in love with Black women, and New York rap. Hindsight is 20/20, but I can see how it was detrimental to my own identity and love prospects at the time lol

 

[Travel memoir21]

Lol....I wonder if EMO will make a resurgence if it ever does come back...I remember just by staring at the screens back in the day....it seemed rather cliquey and popular at the time.....I wonder what subculture will replace it.