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This was social media before the newsfeed. People were more inclined to communicate directly with each other rather than passively posting content for attention.
I’m happy I’m in the generation where I had a MySpace in its prime! It was such a good introduction to social media. I was at college at the time and all the music students had to make a page to promote their band! So cool!
@McLovin2021 Mclovin it’s just a hobby, In the uk college is just 2 extra years of education after school (cos we leave at 16) unless you have a career in mind, you’d do something you enjoy :)
Myspace was awesome! I never understood why people started using Facebook instead and eventually everyone was off myspace. It was far superior to Facebook
The same reason why every Walmart looks the same. Familiarity. People don’t want to custom pages and different experience with every time visiting a place either in the real world or online. That’s why layouts of stores are almost identical, which is where Facebook had the go ahead to take over social media.
Ads. That was the main reason why all my friends & I stopped using MySpace… it became totally overran with scammy messages and alerts. It happened so suddenly… super weird.
maturity that's why. if you are one of those who are at 30's when you register at myspace then you don't probably understand what I mean. but for the vast majority who are at their teens and now going to be hired for a job they needed a professional profile and facebook is what was available back then. a lot of myspace is like our personal biodata on the internet atleast that was how we perceive it back then . if you wanted to start a new life. you close that account and make a new one or switch to other platform like facebook. what does it means for myspace? well... it means they are just like a stepping stone for everyone until they become adults and switch to facebook. their death is inevitable to begin with. coz "everyone" at some point will grow up.
I'm 36 and remember getting MySpace in highschool because my friends were on it. Then, in my early 20s, there were actual MySpace parties. It was a great time. Social media was actually social and I made friends from it. There was drama over who was in your top 8 and eventually parents got on it and it stopped being cool before it got sold. Victim of its own success.
MySpace went downhill once they removed the ability to customize via HTML codes, they made everything uniform and removed comments and basically all customization. MySpace was awesome, Tom left and so did everyone else after that. This was told to me from one of the influencers, one of the first of that kind of celebrity. MySpace was way better than Facebook because you could also make friends, whereas Facebook HATES you adding people you dont know.
I remember people leaving MySpace in droves, I went to Facebook but never liked it and was happy when Pinterest and Instagram came out. But I miss the old school innocence & simplicity of MySpace.
Yep…..it wasnt really a choice but the UI on MySpace became impossible to use after they removed customization. Facebook didnt kill it, it killed itself.
I never understood how FB was more popular. MySpace was fun and helped me discover a lot of new music at the time. Sure, I understand the advertising issues and what not, but damn Facebook was boring.
@@MykaTheDevil exactly, plus it taught us coding on the low. I was born in 1980 and Myspace was perfect for my generation at the time. We were all in our early 20s and extremely social, Myspace basically was a giant networking platform that helped us all with planning and promoting events. The groups are also amazing, there were so many people on there! I actually met my ex-fiance on there in an Occultist group 🤣 we were in hella groups together. It was rad, gave me a chance to really feel out his personality. We were friends on there and also talked via phone for 2 years before we met in person. He lived in a whole other state! Facebook influenced Myspace to minimize their interface as previously mentioned, and it totally went downhill.
Because they eventually removed that feature... and offered less functionality than even facebook. It no longer was as good. They were already fighting with fb to remain relevant and made those stupid decisions that just pushed out and alienated the remaining holdouts.
The Smart Phone was the nail in the MySpace coffin. People held on through tons of bad updates but the FaceBook app being more more user friendly us the end of MySpace.
After a month on MySpace I started to get spam that would have headlines like “Hey sexy it was great talking to you” or “You rocked my world yesterday” typical spam bs but my girlfriend at the time thought they were real and it was so chaotic that I took my page down and never had another social media account, wasn’t worth the time, effort or hassle.
My girl was like that as well, and I found that the solution was to give her **NO** access whatsoever to anything personal. She was going to create these scenes in her head anyway, no reason to provide any fuel for them.
The customizable nature of MySpace through html made it a chaotic thing of beauty. Terrible in-your-face auto-loaded music; embedded flash games; horrendously busy background images. Most MySpace pages were glorious dumpster fires. It was everything the internet should be. I miss it. But most of all, Samy is my hero.
I grew up in the MySpace era it was iconic for the time it was active, but Facebook in 2010 helped me find family members I lost contact with years prior and we’re closer than ever til this day.
I was introduced to Facebook around 2008. I hated Facebook at first. A friend told me about it so I created an account. I often wondered what advantage Facebook had with little to no customization. Then this video reminded me - you had to have an account to see pages, it felt more like an exclusive, private club. It was easier to find friends by their real names and the userbase had overtook Myspace by 2009. There was a 3rd competitor, Bebo, which was also better than Myspace to me at the time because of it's ease of use. You get the feeling Myspace wasn't a real tech company, more of a media company from the very beginning. They weren't competitive enough in the tech sphere, they just laid the foundation. Now look at all of today's social media apps stealing each other's features.
I joined in 2005. Quickly became hooked to it… I miss those days😢 It wasn’t until around late 2009 I finally made a FB account because all my friends kept moving from MS to FB and I did not want to make the move for the longest but I finally gave in.
Same. I moved begrudgingly because Myspace became a ghost town. I never understood the switch Facebook was so damn boring. MJ had died so I did a final Myspace page tribute and dipped. The funny part is, now Facebook is full of boomers. 😂
Oh, so similar to my story... I never liked FB and I specifically loved MySpace because I was able to design it myself. Then friends from university made this group on FB in 2009, so I had to create profile myself and the rest is history...
"It was messy and chaotic" and we loved that about it. My dad made an account, his pfp was him in drag from a production of the birdcage. He understood the assignment.
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I think what we miss isnt myspace, but rather the fact that it wasnt optimized to perfection to keep us addicted. We miss not having social media addictions, not myspace.
You sure it isn't full customizable personal page that did it for you? Like if backgrounds weren't so big you could probably replicate it and save the bandwidth costs, biggest thing I miss was the music that got deleted on accident
That Megan girl who killed herself, it was her best friend's mom who started the cyber bullying. She pretended to be a teenage boy that was interested in her. They even sent dirty messages to each other, it was fucking disgusting. Her family saw no justice and the Mom did go to court but got off. It's easilly the most fucked up cyber bullying case I have ever heard of.
MySpace was great. My band had a page and we used it to upload songs, contact other bands, organize gigs and so on. It was a great tool in the DIY music scene. Facebook was crap compared to MySpace.
God I miss MySpace, it was such an expressive place that encouraged talking to people you didn't know and engaging with people beyond your circle. When did social media turn into just friending people you know in real life? I used to make friends from all over the world on myspace
Damn, this is a throwback and a half! As a teen, I LOVED MySpace! Met some really cool friends and people on there and found bands to listen to and love and still do to this day. Such a shame that this website isn’t around anymore. It was a huge part of my teenager lifetime hahs
I think one thing you forgot to mention is the development of the iPhone and apps I think that’s really what blew fb up. Things like smartphones,psp/vita’s. Idk I believe the uniformity in Facebook helped it become more popular it would’ve been a very stripped MySpace honestly.
Myspace was the best I met my husband on it we stayed “my space friends “ for a year ,then met and stayed friends a year. After that we been together since its now 4 kids,a dog,a home and 16 years later ❤
I remember what I was going on MySpace. Talking to adult woman often lol. I was about 12-13. I believe content moderation working in reason is the company’s issue to manage. But parents so easily offload their responsibilities to everyone else. I don’t blame the company for kids dealing with bullying it’s the parents job to protect them.
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Does anybody remember when in late 2008/ beginning 2009 suddenly almost all photos and even some profiles were deleted with no explanation? That was when everybody went to Facebook, plus then Justin Timberlake bought it, changed the interface and basically ruined it
I still miss the old RU-vid where you could add your own background, the transparency, have comments on your channel & your video comments seen. And lots more freedoms of creativity & speech back then.
A century ago, Coca-Cola turned down a very inexpensive offer to buy Pepsi. They laughed and said that Pepsi was no threat to them. The 1970s taste test commercials left Coke in 2nd place for good. Really bad bad decision.
i lost all of my blogs, poems, and songs... it was soul crushing. i was couch surfing and thought myspace would never disappear or suddenly remove/delete features that would erase my compositions forever. And the pictures/highschool memories
I was one of those artists who lost about a dozen original songs off three profiles on MySpace when all those tunes got deleted. I thought I had backups. Wont make that mistake again…
@@bronxvillebrer9723 I had a Mitsubishi cell phone with customizable face plates in like 1999. I was only 15 but I was selling weed and working at McDonald’s. Nobody else had a phone yet.
I think another thing that killed myspace was that most computers couldn't keep up when people had their entire backgrounds animated gifs. It got annoying quick.
Facebook was always pretty corporate. I remember when everyone I knew started using it and it was just so dull and sanitised in comparison. You couldn't even play any media at all and it's video functionality, when it did get launched eventually, was absolutely atrocious. You still can't play a band's music directly from their page, which was one of the best features of Myspace. I discovered so much in the way of independent music through there. MySpace was deeply flawed in retrospect but it was a venue for individual creative expression in a way that no other prominent social media site has really sought to replicate since and if they'd just have ended up in the hands of someone who valued independently produced content and had the technical expertise at their disposal to improve the security of the site people might still still be using it. It could have arguably been taking up a significant amount of the market share currently occupied by sites like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and BandCamp today.
In high school i loved MySpace and was confused when i heard of people switching to Facebook, i waited until nobody was left on MySpace before i gave in and created a Facebook. Long live MySpace Nostalgia
You guys should use a keyboard sound effect more. Hearing it every ten seconds for 32 minutes straight just is not enough. Just do it for the whole video. Constantly. Also maybe make your visuals more busy, I don;t to be able to focus on anything, just keep flashing crap at my face.
Great material! Well, I cannot get over the feeling that in the online culture, everything comes in circles. There is always balance between the desire to follow development and newest gadgets and stay by vintage, old-school, hipster solutions. In the future, MySpace might still find a niche of people who are willing to spend their time there, not only because of nostalgia, but also simplicity of the design.
Thanks again for another great, well researched video. Plus, You actually have a great narration, speaking voice. Other documentary videos which MAY be well done, are a turn off due to an authors horrible or actually annoying narration voice.
MySpace could still make a comeback now that fb lots trust, ppl just like new stuff just make some changes and give it to e’m. Currently MySpace website is a joke lots of dev. Errors popping up would buy it if I had the means to!.
All the bright Startups fall because of literally the same reasons , time and again, we just seem not to learn or something. All in all a masterpiece as always 🤘
I LOVED MYSPACE.......I MISS HOW WE COULD MAKE MUSIC PLAY ON OUR PAGE SOON AS YOU CAME ON THERE.....I ALSO HATE THAT THEY CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW TO USE THE PROFILE.....
Anyone else stop using myspace because they forced you to change your password 10 times within the same week and you ultimately forgot your password and didn't care enough to ever log back in ?
You forgot to mention the download button on MySpace!!! Few months later, MySpace had problems with copyright as nobody knew, wether it's original or not
Really nicely formatted and explained piece of internet's and social media's history. This much data could easily be made boring and overwhelming, but you managed to keep me watching it all. Even if the clips used to illustrate it all are general animations or movie snippets, they appear in the right moment and last long enough to balance between informative addition and a flashy mess. Good editing and useful chapter partition. Maybe the amount of animations and text typing is on the verge of being digested at the pace they are served - but still managable.
I love how back then everyone was a "hacker"... when facebook first came out I seriously remember logging into someone's account with the username and question: "are you sure this is your account?"
I remember being one of those people that had about 200 pictures on their profile and slowed your shit down trying to view it. It looked good though. 😂
I think what made users open facebook more than myspace is because of their timeline/newsfeed. In myspace, we have to click per profile to browse but on facebook, it just refreshes everytime new status or post was made. That, and depending on the population that uses it. Like in SE asia, friendster and facebook were more well known so i tend to open friendster then migrated to fb at the time since most of my friends are there, even though i prefer myspace layout and perks but 70% of my friendslist on there are either internet friends or bands i discovered & followed. If only myspace put in the games fb started to lure new users and timeline/newsfeed, it would've been a hit for sure
I never really felt comfortable on MySpace but do remember DESPISING Newsfeed. I felt like it was an extreme violation of privacy. How little I knew how right I was... now, I never use FB.
I honestly believe the next big social media website that will come along will be something akin to MySpace; hell, Tumblr was pretty close in some regards, but they chased away their core audience (artists and art fans). I think the key thing for the next big site is the customisation - people are bored of these sterile corporate cookie cutter sites, and are nostalgic for those terrible 90's/00's sites, because they at least had personality if not charm.
No censorship too. ANY site that pops up even remotely like MS or even Fakebook, that refuses to have censorship will be HUGE. I think people are over getting "jail sentences" for simple comments like calling a cheapskate a cheapskate (true story) while others repeatedly call women the C word but it doesn't go against their "cOmMuNiTy sTaNdArDs(tm)". I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg even realizes he's digging Fakebooks grave with all his insane control freak censorship.
Intersting to hear what happened to myspace. I had a myspace but stopped using social media when I was in my 20s and realized my family and other people I knew could see all the ridiculous shit I used to put on there. I never used Facebook or anything since then either.
I still feel proud to be the only person that I know that never added Tom as a friend on MySpace. I'm sure there are other people out there that didn't but everyone I knew had him and I thought that was pointless.
when it comes to the game of documentaries my guy John is at the top of it all. on thing i hated about myspace was the spam messages i used to receive they were so disturbing
My MySpace is still up lol it’s connected to my twitter or Facebook and I clicked the link the other day and it’s still up and running with my old photos and my top friends list photos! I miss MySpace, I didn’t want a Facebook at first in 2007
I made an animated gif of me cutting off Tom's head and that would play on loop while Hulk Hogan's theme song blasted in the background. I miss the good ol days.
This video is so chaotic with over-editing that it's unwatchable. 1/3 in I was getting a migrane from the split second flashing/animation of EVERY STUPID WORD.
Myspace was where we were all hanging in 2007. It was awesome. Customized pages, can make a friend top 10 which was cool for my age back then in college. Then we all switched to facebook and stayed lol.
Wow, your voice says 'documentary.' But your editing says 'summer blockbuster trailer' And i absolutely love it! The algorithm rarely gets it right but it nailed this one.
I remember when Rupert Murdoch took over myspace, they changed the terms of reference to the effect that they owned everything users posted on the site. For me and my friends, that was what drove us away from the site. With sadness, I should add, because we all had fond memories of the site.
Myspace was a nostalgic social media thing back when I was in high school. I miss Myspace and I wish it was like how it was before Facebook came along and made it pretty much disappear.
I don't remember myspace being a thing in my country but we had an equivalent called arto which all teenagers were on. maybe I was just between being too young or too old to catch myspace, i'm not sure, i'm from 1990. facebook hit us here becoming mainstream in 2008. when did it become mainstream where you're from?
