I wouldn't go so far as to say that MySpace is a dead media. After all, the HTML customization capabilities of MySpace far exceed other, more basic mediums. However, it falls painfully short in the type of people that it attracts. I find myself spammed with glittery holiday greetings as opposed to legitimate attempts to communicate.
It does have a thriving music community though and that alone is enough to convince me to stick around MySpace.
Ian
· 4 months ago
Oh yeah, I can't stand all the glitter, then there are the regular "thanks for the add" comments which I think really just mean "please look at me". The trouble is too much design freedom given to people who don't know how to design let alone usability. I think Bebo is a good alternative for customisation but it doesn't have the users, and those it does have do tend to be a bit younger so not many of my peers.
@LindsayLooo
· 4 months ago
Honestly I dont think MySpace could do anything to get me back. I feel like it is more aimed to a younger generation. Its seems very elementary with profile design and user features. So many people have left for Facebook, Twitter, and other sites, that I think myspace is in trouble.
Jason
· 4 months ago
MySpace still has 130 million global users and the strongest and most successful music network on the Web. I wouldn't say that's troublesome. Yes, the company has had some bumps in the road, but it's far too early to make a dumb video like the "MySpace Graveyard". You might wait a while, but don't enter the "graveyard"...things are getting better and better and I guarantee that within the course of a year you will see an entirely fresh, new, innovative and well-functioning MySpace.
Lindsay
· 4 months ago
oops meant to be logged in.
Music and Buzz
· 4 months ago
I really hate MySpace! I won't return ever
Sunny Kapoor
· 4 months ago
WOW hate is a strong word mate .It seems that myspace has treated not very well in future
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· 4 months ago
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The only thing MySpace could do is unify design, and make profiles easier to read and easier to use than Facebook. The biggest reason for me going away from MySpace was because I was tired of visiting profiles with just tons of garbage, half transparent backgrounds, loads of animated gifs, and unreadable text. There's room for improvement on the way Facebook delivers profile content, and MySpace should capitalize on that. But instead, they seem to be trying some hybrid between copying facebook features (status updates, Friends stream, etc.) and continuing the crappy custom profiles. They seem to borrow some ideas, but implement them even worse.
Tracey
· 4 months ago
Funny this topic should come up...I just recently did re-join myspace as I'm really trying to reach out to more friends and former contacts I' ve lost touch with over the years. But as Andres said...in some ways I was pleased as they'd upgraded some features from when I was on MS before...but the profiles are still hard to use and navigate.
And what's funny is many of the folks I've "found" on myspace will message me back and tell me they don't really use it anymore...then they look me up on Facebook and become my friend there...oh well...in that way at least the site is helping me "dig up" some of those long lost contacts from the Myspace graveyard!
Kimberly Garcia
· 4 months ago
Myspace is dead. Period. Even my non social networking husband, who thought Myspace was easier than facebook has accepted that his friends are not on myspace when his 4th grade girlfriend added him on Facebook this morning. Where did they go wrong? Custom Profiles, comments that froze pcs/macs across the world, and loud horrible music as people snuck on pages while at work. Wait.. I forgot the spam, the porn, the bulletin spam...Myspace is dead. Period.
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· 4 months ago
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kaka_belly
· 4 months ago
well....... the site is sliding in the music and entertainment category.
RKW
· 4 months ago
Honestly, nothing.
I've always thought that MySpace was messy. I mean it's nice people get to customize their profiles but have you seen some of them? It's tragic and you don't know what a mess of a profile you're getting to until you're there.
It's also just harder to navigate and most of the people I give two cents about are on Twitter and Facebook. There isn't a need for me to check myself out of the MySpace hospice for now. I just log in, check messages and log out.
justin
· 4 months ago
So apparently all anyone can do anymore is regurgitate what everyone else says: "It's too juvenile", "Too much spam", "The profiles have too much crap on them", etc. For one, it's only as juvenile as the friends you keep on it, so I don't understand that point at all. If you're the kind of person who accepts any friend requests sent your way, then that's 100% your fault. I stick to people I know in real life. Two, there are very simple ways to block spam. I don't get any spam anymore. Yes, most of the old profiles are horrible, and that's the users' faults. But with the new 2.0 layouts, you can make your profile as simple as a Twitter profile if you want to. They are WAY cleaner and they even made customizing it drag-and-drop, so even a 6 year old could do it. It's just a matter of people actually switching over. Point is, Myspace is as bad or as good as you make it. Get off the Myspace hating bandwagon people.
Jason
· 4 months ago
Dude, AMEN!! I'm hearing the same brainless and copycat negative comments about MySpace over and over from people who haven't logged in in like six months. There have been a lot of changed and improvements. The "Lite" view will allow people to turn off custom layouts and present profiles in a really boring and uniform way (like Facebook). Also, the "porn" spam has cut down 95% easily over the past few months. It is definitely what you make of it. Now MySpace is giving away a free email address (you@myspace.com) that allows you to email outside the network. FB's message system still SUCKS big time and has not done anything remotely close to this! Give it a chance and actually take a moment to think for yourself, then take a look and study the account options and realize that you have control. If you're bothered by bands adding you, you can turn it off. If you're bothered by notifications every time somebody messages you...you can turn it off. If you hate hearing music when you go to a users page, you can turn it off. Quit hating on MySpace ignorantly.
Maura
· 4 months ago
I also agree. MySpace gives you tons of options to make it work just as good as Facebook. This "Lite" feature is huge option but unfortunately not enough people know about it. Something MS should take note of....
Gary Arndt
· 4 months ago
Their code base is garbage and they have done little to nothing to upgrade it in years. Facebook has been adding features while MySpace has fiddled.
Add to the fact that most MySpace sites look like totall ass, and you have a 100% self inflicted wound.
Brandon_Sheley
· 4 months ago
"just login time to time to delete spam" That's exactly what I do on myspace now, and to chat with a few friends that haven't gone to Facebook yet
Nate Mylott
· 4 months ago
I'm not sure there's anything they can do either. The biggest reason I left was that in two years or more, I never once got a custom layout or theme to work right. There is no tech support. A human being will not answer you no matter how many times you email them or you word the email. You will never get an answer that matches your problem and no person will ever read it to figure it out and help you. Even the layouts that kind of worked, there was always a catch. Something would be eliminated or otherwise ruined by it.
The second big reason I left was that I couldn't find anybody on it that I knew. Of Facebook I reunited with everybody I went to high school with and some old friends.
The third reason is there's more support for Facebook. Every site you go to, every video, every article, every everything on the net has a share on Facebook button. Plus there's bookmarklets and lots of browser plugins to do the same. You just share a different type of content on Facebook and in a better way. It's cool and interesting things you found on the net and they're right there in your stream, not quarrantined in a "bulletins" area. MySpace is more about presenting yourself than interacting with others. Unless you count the daily friend requests from lingerie clad coeds named Kitten who try to direct you to their naughty pictures on some other bogus site.
Zachary Collins
· 4 months ago
With the profile design, they need to make it so you can turn on an option where you can read each page without all the junk (transparent background, animated gifs, blasting music, etc.). This would make MySpace look so much more professional.
I have never had a Myspace account and I never will, but that doesn't mean I find it to be completely useless. The only use I have had for myspace has been for music, and much less so since they stopped allowing me to download files.
Cheryl Mcculloch
· 4 months ago
I never got properly started with My Space because it could not seem to "remember" me. It simply would not recognize my password and when I changed it would "forget" again! I gave up in frustration. It still manages to send me email though!!
Jason
· 4 months ago
I think you need to stop using IE6. Try downloading Firefox. Your problem doesn't sound MySpace-centric, but more browser-centric. Firefox has an option that will allow you to "remember your login".
Jason
· 4 months ago
Also, there's an option within Account settings > Notifications that allows you to turn off email notifications.
Sunny Kapoor
· 4 months ago
While all the peope are "hateing" myspace I had just created a new profile in myspace in the name of thegeekhead. Though i haven't started pimping it up but yeah now myspace is faster then before and "hey common" instead of bashing myspace can't we just provide creative ideas to myspace to cope up with their downfall ?
Jason
· 4 months ago
Hey Cashmore, how's about changing the punitive and misleading headline of this article. You made it sound like MySpace released this video. That's bad journalism buddy. Here's an idea in case you're not feeling creative enough. "College Humor Launches MySpace Graveyard [Parody Video]".
Sunny Kapoor
· 4 months ago
O MY GOOD LORD...Here we are discussing about myspace and and facebook. I just GOT A NEWS from yahoo that Archbishop warns that Facebook, MySpace may cause kids to commit suicide Link is mentioned below for that whole story http://bit.ly/tTPSJ
Jason
· 4 months ago
I love how he blames social networks (non-corporeal objects) rather than mean people misusing them. Very typical. You've gotta blame something so why not take out on the vehicle rather than the driver. Stupid. Guns don't kill people...people kill people. It's kind of like me rewriting the headline to say, "The Catholic Church May Cause Archbishops to Molest Children".
Emma
· 4 months ago
I wouldn't go back to MySpace, I don't feel there's any need for it for me anymore - I have Facebook if I need to talk to friends, and Twitter to spam with whatever crap is on my mind (in the same way I used to spam MySpace bulletins) I never used MySpace for music so that doesn't sway me, and even though this is a tired argument, it is true that the site is badly designed - not just the profiles, which yes can be customized now to look 'clean' and everything, but the site itself. I logged on there for the first time in about a year the other day and it crashed my browser, and was very slow when I could finally stay on the site for more than 5 minutes (and no, this isn't through a fault of my laptop, or browser, as it works perfectly) Another thing I don't like about MySpace now is how it's integrated some very Facebook-like features, such as the little chat thing and the status updates... I have Facebook for that, so why would I then want to go to MySpace and do the same thing? This annoys me with any site, when they jump on a bandwagon and forget that its users use the site because it's THAT site - if Facebook go all out on being a clone of Twitter i'm sure i'll be back complaining about that too - there's just no need! Obviously there is from the perspective of the sites, but you know what I mean. Also I don't know anyone that still uses MySpace, so it would be a bit lonely there.
candleja
· 4 months ago
MySpace can NOT recover.
It will continue to die. It has about as much credibility as Microsoft these days.
And Facebook is next...
Stajo
· 4 months ago
That is so scary!
ryan
· 4 months ago
I still use myspace b/c I have to--I'm in a band. It allows bands to have unique urls (for one), it has an mp3 player (not a very good one either) that most people are familiar with, and the general orientation of the page has been accepted by site visitors and fans as the norm. Facebook is moving up the charts b/c it's a site that looks professional and welcomed in a corporate environment. Myspace looks childish (like shit). Myspace should get with the times and offer a standards-compliant table-less theme for users who still stand by the site's functionality. Once that is done, have full Facebook connectivity to merge both sites' functionality.
Ann Mask
· 4 months ago
Myspace will be just another formerly 'hip' web/web 2.0 page that lost it's appeal after a few years time... nothing is forever.
Ann Mask
· 4 months ago
Myspace will be just another formerly 'hip' web/web 2.0 page that lost it's appeal after a few years time... nothing is forever.
AP
· 4 months ago
Justin and Jason sound like they work for MySpace. Why else would they get so defensive about all the cracks on MySpace? Might want to start looking for a new job soon guys...
MonsterBuzz
· 4 months ago
Looks like MySpace could get the attention back! =D
Σχολή Χορού
· 4 months ago
Ill repeat in a more straight way, what most commenters actually said. The once Ruling MySpace is almost dead and looks like soon be berried too.
Eric
· 4 months ago
I was never a myspace user. It struck me as a site that was for tweens and young adults !!! At some point, it seemed everyone had a myspace page and I prided myself on not having one !!! I don't know what their demographic was or who they specifically tried to target, but now it seems Twitter and Facebook are the new social networking sites. I had a Facebook account for almost 2 yrs. before I finally started using it actively !!! I have to admit that I enjoy Facebook's user friendly page and I've managed to connect with classmates, family, co-workers and friends !!!
If myspace is to remain relevant, perhaps they may have to revamp and refocus their target demographic and come up with something that no one else has, whatever that may be !!! Unfortunately, that may be too little, too late !!!
Alex R.
· 4 months ago
Myspace has tried to make some improvements from what I've seen. They still have a long way to go. They might gain more users back If they would allow the customization of profiles, yet still restrict them from being cluttered. I have no idea how you would do that, but it would be a nifty hybrid-thing-a-ma-bob.
lodank
· 4 months ago
Everyone seems to hate MySpace so much these days that I feel the only way to revive the site is to change its name!! No matter what they do to 'revamp' their site I don't see them ever being what they once were... Everything comes to an end sometime. It will probably happen to Facebook too someday... That is just the way it is...
LABA
· 4 months ago
If MySpace would let music artists upload all of their songs and stop limiting the players and only letting major label artists or certain distributors stream multiple albums in then it could help. Buy buttons too. The discrimination against indie artists is whats not cool. Other sites allow unlimited uploads and buy buttons that lead to music stores whether major or indie. So MySpace can suck it until they stop selling out and excluding indie artists, get with it...that's where its at. Oh yeah and if Twitter could automatically feed and update on MySpace's status like Twitter to Facebook...maybe that would help too. Get over yourself MySpace and learn how to play well with others or we won't use you anymore.
Arron
· 4 months ago
wow some weird ideas! may have a look. i do still rather myspace and have an active account, but non the less i cant talk to my friends and the mojority are on facebook! intergration is the key.
bamf_mom
· 4 months ago
LOL "MySpace Hospice"
Ian
· 4 months ago
I avoid MySpace whenever possible, but those saying they hate MySpace and will never return are forgetting or ignoring two things:
- A possible redesign and new (less annoying) features.
- Rupert Murdoch suggest that his news websites will cost users a membership fee from next year, maybe that will extend from news to entertainment and therefore include MySpace.
mattbomb
· 3 months ago
for myspace to make a comeback it needs to simplify. i think it's too cluttered get rid of the apps some of them are just plain stupid
amanda gallegos
· 3 months ago
I love connecting with people as friend!
Phill
· 3 months ago
if myspace was a little easier to use like facebook is.. and if it focused more on music... the only reason i like it is because its more personal than facebook and that it has so many bands you can discover.. so if they focused on music..
jackie
· 2 months ago
it's too late. they NEVER got their site functioning properly -- glitches were the order of the day. there's no confidence in them any more. the place looks like a kindergarten classroom where all the kids have taken too much acid. it was a good idea, and MySpace made the least of it. too bad.
Name
· 1 month ago
tell you the truth i have a myspace and i can't see how Facebook can be any better. I know Twitter sucks all you do is make updates. Anyway myspace allows you to be yourself and custimize your page it's a place where you can be you and not care what people think
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It does have a thriving music community though and that alone is enough to convince me to stick around MySpace.
And what's funny is many of the folks I've "found" on myspace will message me back and tell me they don't really use it anymore...then they look me up on Facebook and become my friend there...oh well...in that way at least the site is helping me "dig up" some of those long lost contacts from the Myspace graveyard!
I've always thought that MySpace was messy. I mean it's nice people get to customize their profiles but have you seen some of them? It's tragic and you don't know what a mess of a profile you're getting to until you're there.
It's also just harder to navigate and most of the people I give two cents about are on Twitter and Facebook. There isn't a need for me to check myself out of the MySpace hospice for now. I just log in, check messages and log out.
This "Lite" feature is huge option but unfortunately not enough people know about it. Something MS should take note of....
Add to the fact that most MySpace sites look like totall ass, and you have a 100% self inflicted wound.
That's exactly what I do on myspace now, and to chat with a few friends that haven't gone to Facebook yet
The second big reason I left was that I couldn't find anybody on it that I knew. Of Facebook I reunited with everybody I went to high school with and some old friends.
The third reason is there's more support for Facebook. Every site you go to, every video, every article, every everything on the net has a share on Facebook button. Plus there's bookmarklets and lots of browser plugins to do the same. You just share a different type of content on Facebook and in a better way. It's cool and interesting things you found on the net and they're right there in your stream, not quarrantined in a "bulletins" area. MySpace is more about presenting yourself than interacting with others. Unless you count the daily friend requests from lingerie clad coeds named Kitten who try to direct you to their naughty pictures on some other bogus site.
Anyone agree?
-Zachary Collins
http://www.yazzem.com
Link is mentioned below for that whole story
http://bit.ly/tTPSJ
"The Catholic Church May Cause Archbishops to Molest Children".
I never used MySpace for music so that doesn't sway me, and even though this is a tired argument, it is true that the site is badly designed - not just the profiles, which yes can be customized now to look 'clean' and everything, but the site itself. I logged on there for the first time in about a year the other day and it crashed my browser, and was very slow when I could finally stay on the site for more than 5 minutes (and no, this isn't through a fault of my laptop, or browser, as it works perfectly)
Another thing I don't like about MySpace now is how it's integrated some very Facebook-like features, such as the little chat thing and the status updates... I have Facebook for that, so why would I then want to go to MySpace and do the same thing? This annoys me with any site, when they jump on a bandwagon and forget that its users use the site because it's THAT site - if Facebook go all out on being a clone of Twitter i'm sure i'll be back complaining about that too - there's just no need! Obviously there is from the perspective of the sites, but you know what I mean.
Also I don't know anyone that still uses MySpace, so it would be a bit lonely there.
It will continue to die. It has about as much credibility as Microsoft these days.
And Facebook is next...
If myspace is to remain relevant, perhaps they may have to revamp and refocus their target demographic and come up with something that no one else has, whatever that may be !!! Unfortunately, that may be too little, too late !!!
- A possible redesign and new (less annoying) features.
- Rupert Murdoch suggest that his news websites will cost users a membership fee from next year, maybe that will extend from news to entertainment and therefore include MySpace.