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I miss Myspace, it was way less creepy and IMHO led to much more meaningful communication.

by ilovetux 8y ago

rorykoehler 8y ago
All I remember from MySpace is "Thanks for the add!"
- chillacy 8y ago
  My favorite part was visiting my friends pimped out page and having my computer freeze. It was more free, injecting html and css directly on the page.
wreath 8y ago
I agree! I met a lot of (musically) like minded people that Im still in touch with until today.. I even “met” my wife there!
rwmj 8y ago
Myspace was very poorly implemented. Slow, often even displaying errors on some pages. The social network I miss is Mixi, which was a sort of proto-Facebook around in the early 2000s (in Japan and Japanese only). Mixi had some really interesting features like being able to see who had browsed your account. (To be fair Mixi still exists, but they kind of died when FB became popular, as well as putting itself out of business with some onerous changes to their terms of service and business practices.)
- uncletaco 8y ago
  The social network I miss the most is MyOtaku. It was a lot like livejournal but the site was geared towards anime nerds. I used it until about 2008 or so when it just sorta got ate as all my friends from there added me on fb.
- LinuxBender 8y ago
  Myspace wasn't even meant to be a social networking site when it started. When I registered all the domains initially, there were hundreds of variants of "myspace, mylinuxspace, mywindowsspace, mydesktopspace" and such. It was supposed to be the box.com of the time. There was an app you installed and created an "X:" drive. They had a couple HP SureStore arrays.. I forgot how much storage exactly, but they were about 19TB comprised of 9 and 18 GB drives in raid 50 or 51. There was no de-duplication and basically it was the same few hundred megs of music, animated gifs and porn over and over again. They didn't make any money and sold everything to some news company. Even then, it was quite a while before it started to take shape as a social networking site.

I miss Myspace, it was way less creepy and IMHO led to much more meaningful communication.

rorykoehler 8y ago

All I remember from MySpace is "Thanks for the add!"

chillacy 8y ago
My favorite part was visiting my friends pimped out page and having my computer freeze. It was more free, injecting html and css directly on the page.

wreath 8y ago

I agree! I met a lot of (musically) like minded people that Im still in touch with until today.. I even “met” my wife there!

rwmj 8y ago

Myspace was very poorly implemented. Slow, often even displaying errors on some pages. The social network I miss is Mixi, which was a sort of proto-Facebook around in the early 2000s (in Japan and Japanese only). Mixi had some really interesting features like being able to see who had browsed your account. (To be fair Mixi still exists, but they kind of died when FB became popular, as well as putting itself out of business with some onerous changes to their terms of service and business practices.)

uncletaco 8y ago
The social network I miss the most is MyOtaku. It was a lot like livejournal but the site was geared towards anime nerds. I used it until about 2008 or so when it just sorta got ate as all my friends from there added me on fb.
LinuxBender 8y ago
Myspace wasn't even meant to be a social networking site when it started. When I registered all the domains initially, there were hundreds of variants of "myspace, mylinuxspace, mywindowsspace, mydesktopspace" and such. It was supposed to be the box.com of the time. There was an app you installed and created an "X:" drive. They had a couple HP SureStore arrays.. I forgot how much storage exactly, but they were about 19TB comprised of 9 and 18 GB drives in raid 50 or 51. There was no de-duplication and basically it was the same few hundred megs of music, animated gifs and porn over and over again. They didn't make any money and sold everything to some news company. Even then, it was quite a while before it started to take shape as a social networking site.