Is My Space no longer extant?

Didn’t Face Book wipe out My Space?

I’m speaking as someone who has never used My Space.

Just checked and the site is still active, but it looks… incredibly weird to me. It’s more like a news site than a social media site. But since I can still access the site, someone has to be using it.

@Mimishu1995 Guess that explains why it’s losing ground, lousy format. : )

It was bought by the parent company of Fox News in 2005 for 580 million dollars. In 2011 it was bought by some rando company and Justin Timberlake for 35 million. Great investment there Rupert.

Justin and CO. redesigned it and wanted it to focus on music. And somewhere in there they had a “data loss” (I think it was intentional) and lost everything older than three years. That was pretty much the final nail. Now it is pretty much irrelevant.

Back in the day when myspace was popular and there were tons of links to peoples pages all over the internet I was still using a dial-up and a very old computer. You would load a myspace page and there would be 50 embedded youtube videos that would all autoplay and people could make their own CSS for their page and people suck ass at CSS. It would destroy my computer. It was bad enough I had to block myspace in the hosts file on my computer.

@johnpowell Agreed. Ahead of its time. Music-based social media was very cool to me.
Then Facebook took out spotify linking, lost a second playlist. Sigh..

@KNOWITALL I think the reason why Facebook took over MySpace could partly be that it is completely unknown in Asia. During the heyday of MySpace my country was a big user of Yahoo!Blog. Then that thing shut down and people were desperate for an alternative. It so happened to coincide with the day Facebook first came here. I remember the Facebook craze during high school. During both time period MySpace had never been discovered, while Facebook went on to be the most important social media of my country and many other Asian countries. Facebook got the advantage of securing Asian users when Twitter became a thing, while MySpace users just moved on to other places.

So there’s a strong cultural conversation: “Something isn’t so in-my-face currently-popular that I can’t help knowing about it anymore. I wonder if it has ceased to exist?” ?

And apparently there’s not a particularly common thought, “I could try typing in the web address myself, and/or do a search.” Such that composing a Fluther question seems like the thing to do to find out?

I guess I’m being my early-morning smartass self here, but all one has to do is type “myspace” in the address bar of a browser to see if MySpace still exists or not. (Unless someone like JohnPowell has edited the Hosts file in your computer. ;-) )

@Zaku I’d posit that anyone using ‘grandkids’ and ‘doo dad’ in a Q is probably not familiar with, or a user of, social media, their changes, rises and falls. :D

No offense to my new friend, @Nomore.

@Zaku I think of this question as “Is anyone still using MySpace? Because I thought that website is no longer relevant.” His question surprised me too, because I never thought someone would mention it outside the context of nostalgia. I checked the website and was equally baffled because I don’t think that kind of interface would appeal to anyone, especially newcomers but then again I have never used MySpace so…

I should have more politely just mentioned that typing “myspace” into a browser is one way to check.

I didn’t notice this was a question from a new user.

Welcome to Fluther, @Nomore_lockout !

Please forgive my snark!

@KNOWITALL No offense taken, no probleemo.

@Zaku All good pal, no worries. Have a good day.

I never liked MySpace & thought it had died a very slow & painful death!!! I have a thing about my privacy & I tend to shun any sites that shares my private data. Hence, I don’t do FaceBook either!!!

As my old pappy always said, you can please some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cant please all of the people all of the time. Or maybe that was Abe Lincoln, not pappy.

Same here Marrisa I was always to paranoid for Face Book, I have heard way too many horror stories about identity thieves.

^ The identity thieves don’t concern me near as much as who FB decides to sell my info to, I like to decide for myself with whom I share my most personal & private data!!! Hell, I might give the same people the same info. Then IF I get scammed, it is MY fault not due to some greedy entity who doesn’t even know me.

But you know, they can get your identity when you write checks or send emails.

True that Dutchy. But I still try my best to fly under the radar. If that’s even possible in today’s world. In some respects I really enjoy our modern technology, in other ways it astounds me and freaks me out. One of my grand sons calls me his “Old School Paw Paw”. Lol never thought a term like that would or could apply to me. : )

I’m more computer savvy than my kids.

Well, I suppose if Fluther ever fades away I’ll have to break down and get Face Book, so I can try and stay in touch with some of my favorite folks from in here, if they so choose, otherwise I plan to give that thing a wide berth.

@Nomore_lockout I thought you were on Facebook and had joined the other Fluther that @Seek had started when she got upset and quit this Fluther?

@chyna I did join the other Fluther by invitation of a couple of friends, but I was never on FB, they reached me via email about going over there. But that place is pretty much defunct.

Haven’t heard anything about Seek in ages, by the way.

Oh, I remember seek’s site!
And, just for the record, @Nomore_lockout, I actually y have a much higher opinion of myself than “shit on a stick”. :-)

And Facebook is exactly what you make of it. People that complain about it have created the very thing they complain about.

@canidmajor I apologize and I own myself an ass. And it’s not an excuse, but at the time I was having some issues myself, because of the reaction of some folks toward a friend of mine from Fluther who was recently deceased. I was just lashing out at anyone and every one, unjustly. Guess I’m just overly loyal to friends, with us or passed on.