MySpace - do you still use it? (4 Viewers)

[coast to coast]

I try to avoid it big time, cos its fucking shite. I wouldn't consider that anything has taken over from it particularly like facebook, soundcloud, bandcamp (though thats the closest probably), MySpace just because irrelvant because it was so shit to use. mp3s always sounded poor, the lay out was mental, you had to keep on loading different pages and it was user unfriendly. In terms of finding content for a website its made things much more difficult to not have a one-stop shop for everything but otherwise I can't see anyone mourning its demise. That said, the posters above who said that bands will start ironically reusing them is probably right.

 

[Jim A. Morrish]

hated it's horrible (and unspeakably slow) interface from day one, used it occasionally but hardly ever now

 

[pete]

Myspace has a new owner: Digital ad network Specific Media said Wednesday that it has acquired the ailing social network from News Corp.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but multiple news reports put it at around $35 million -- far less than the $580 million News Corp. paid for Myspace in 2005.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/29/technology/myspace_layoffs/index.htm

 

[MilanPan!c]

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/29/technology/myspace_layoffs/index.htm

That's only 500M down the drain.

 

[coast to coast]

That said, the posters above who said that bands will start ironically reusing them is probably right.

http://gawker.com/5819192/myspace-corpse-is-retro-cool-in-brooklyn

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/07/myspace-shall-rise-again-this-weekend-as-hipster-party-in-brooklyn/

Didn't take long!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

So some cunts are having a party and people blogged about it? Why i neva!

 

[ann post]

I suspect its a shit deliberette viral project to try and bump the price a little before the thing dies totally.

 

[rettucs]

I just looked up my old myspace page for the first time in (easily) over 10 years

morto

 

[chris d]

oooh.

I cant remember my email or password. Found my page, but I must have set it to private so it won't open. #CleverGirl

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Tried to find mine but it wasn't there : (

 

[ann post]

Tried to find mine but it wasn't there : (

None of them are now!!

MySpace reemerged from the shadows this week to announce that all music uploaded to the site before 2015 has been lost.
The social network admitted that an estimated 50 million songs from about 14 million artists is gone in the cyber ether.
“As a result of a server migration project, any photos, video, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from MySpace,” the company said in a statement. “We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest that you retain your back up copies.”