What Killed MySpace? (It Wasn't Facebook) 

I also thought that myspace's decision to allow users TOTAL control over the colors and pictures of their page's interface as a BAD idea. You'd be cruising along, and then, BAM! Pink and Black are thrown up on a site with an almost unreadable font. The kids probably thought it was 'cool', but adults certainly weren't impressed. It may seem limiting, but Facebook's strict adhesion to a standard interface made the site easier to navigate, and its division of Events, News Feeds, Watch Parties, and Marketplace suggests that 'organization' is not a bad word after all. As a result, Facebook seemed more 'grown up', a more refined site that even 'old people' might use. Of course, as soon as the older folks piled on, younger ones went to find a new place to escape. Is that a bad thing for Facebook. Not really. Having a common place for relatives, old high school and/or work friends to share their lives is totally sustainable. Let the kids have TikTok...

What about Bebo ?

They Should Have sold when It Was Worth 12 Billion 4 Sure..! *

There had some misleading information, Friendster is not founded in Malaysia, just currently own by someone in Malaysia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendster here is the information.

Do a video about Facebook Scam ads! I got scammed by Mosistar, which is a Facebook popup ads!

Runa Belbin yeah me too from 05-08 it was cool ...

4realz

Myspace does still seem to exist, although its most likely very different now than it was in 2006 or 2007. I think I even remember AOL instant messanger also having where you could put a little customized profile page of yourself, thats actually what I used before Facebook which I joined in 2008. AIM I remember using before that as far back as 2001.

That was the worst aspect of it. All it did was to show to the world how shitty a person's tastes were.

You've been eating too many member berries; the customization is what made it impossible for someone's granny or aunt to join Myspace. That may not mean much to you but that put a ceiling on who would have ultimately joined Myspace. Meaning less revenue. I bet those old grannies and aunts have a Facebook today though.

bishyaler it would have if it had the technology

Lol not yet

Nah, Facebook don't listen to what you say for adds. There's algorithm that depending on what you like, do, search, look, how long, it can predict, with your own collected data, pretty much anything you will be thinking at certain points. Look up the full documentary on Cambridge Analytica, it'll open your mind to what you actually share.

Then don't use Facebook.

@@arlobennett8504 Thats hardly the point. Nor would it stop, even remotely the tactics used by social media platforms to spy and collect data. You may as well have said. Dont use the Internet period. But, it doesn't stop there either. Whats more important is what or how, later this data could be used with out consent.

To be fair, I think for Mark, it was along the lines of "Turn your platform into this or you will never be capable of surpassing myspace and you guys will shutdown in the next 5 years" so they started working with the CIA or whatever it is they do

Back then, selling user data wasn't a really big thing since nobody could have foreseen how important data will become

@@DieEineMieze Maybe Tom saw it, because no one would sell a company that is neck on neck with the same thing, unless they feel it's worthless.

@Phantom of the Oprah what

not to mention he was everyone friend so everyone had at least one friend on myspace..

Totally on point dude .

Exactly!!! I couldn't stand FB but I went through the same thing- it was like we were hypnotized into doing it....

Yeah ill never understand the big craze over Facebook. Everyone migrated to Facebook and I had no choice but to abandon ship. Myspace was so much better and you could customize your page!

@@MicklowFilms this is why I really hope Spacehey takes off, someone essentially made a retro myspace clone that works in exactly the same way

I remember in 2009 that all my friends moved over there I still hate it to this day.

ghogue61 Suckerberg zionistburg is a POS

Stay tuned....

Nah never happen.Housewives and little girls are addicted to bragging about food on there.

Or... "How Facebook conquered the world."

Yes, it can't come fast enough, lame ass, mass surveillance ass BS!

Same

xD Dx incidentally, your username perfectly captures my internet persona in the 2000s

@@ihatemickiegee what u use now?

@@xddx6545 I'm not expert but maybe Mickie Gee?

Wow, that’s awesome.

I don't see Google dying, at least not in our lifetime (assuming you're not in your 50s+). Facebook and Twitter are on life support and I'd be happy to pull the plug

“What killed Capitalism” next please

@@hailtothevic imagine owning Google (youtube) and Facebook shares knowing that Twitters being pulled up on being filled with bots and burning the books, first you'd quietly sell them and they'd collapse under lawsuits

@@darthsidious6380 please no, it's either capitalism or communism at this point. I'll take capitalism over being oppressed and starved. Lol

Especially Facebutt. They deserve to fail.

you're absolutely right. family uses Facebook to spy and snitch on you.

Yea that's interesting I felt the same way .... FB was for my parents then Myspace died and now my kids think FB is for me and Insta/TikTok/Snap is for them... Ig I could have moved on but I stayed with FB as it was leftover from my time and I never liked it. I never had my own thing.

I’m just done with the concept. I don’t need to know what Billy from school is doing and I don’t need any crazy ex’s looking me up. I feel like a lot of people just want a private life with no drama these days. Too much drama and negativity on those things. Anyone still using fb is probably an ahole. 😝 It’s just all so invasive.

One of the problems in this day and age is the competition from everywhere, from opensource platforms to RU-vid comments to networks for work use. Myspace still commands some brand recognition, but it's a mixed bag. Some remember the crappy interface, and some others the moral panic. I'd like a network that's reasonably popular, and not controlled by absolute bastards like Zuc. I did try several contenders back in the day, but most of them failed on some fundamental level by being one-trick gimmick play. The one I really liked got acquired by fucking Google, poorly reimplemented on their cloud platform, and eventually just killed.

@@apinakapina "competition is everywhere" is where the problem lies.

SAY, seems to me like a website that let's someone customize their page as they please is in demand. Maybe something Designed from the ground up to be a positive user experience. Possibly with the ability to use it as a nexus for all other sites. RU-vid, Newgrounds, Patreon. Hmmm, but how to fund it. ....Hmmm....How do you feel about free to play games? If the experience was good enough would you pay for a superior social media site?

It's the same with tumblr, but sadly the ownership changed there too and it's probably in it's final days.

@@NostalgiCrazy Now everyone from tumblr hangs out on Newgrounds. It has been an...interesting, migration to watch.

@@tomhill3248 Never heard of it 🤔 *Googles*

@@NostalgiCrazy New grounds is neat. But I hope you like edgy humor. I recommend the perfect kirby series.

It was way better. It hardly even ever censored posts. but it was who Rupert Murdoch bought it and killed it.

It would have happened eventually. That's why I say fuck Social Meda in general. Even youtube has gone down the shitter. People are going to leave youtube if they don't stop all the content censorship and demonitization.

Crim Sin lets create it then 😏

Fran G I left MySpace for Facebook because all of my friends left me at MySpace 🤦🏾‍♀️

Oh little do you know what they did with your data..... the time was different too, the capabilities were ‘t there.

Copy and pasting was not coding

@@justinharris8698 programmers copy and paste all the time. Why reinvent the wheel.

@@GeometricPidgeon this is true lol

@@justinharris8698 You obviously don't code.

It's no different to hearing people talk about the 80's in the 2000's. What of it?

@@IceBreakBottle How old are you?

@@andrewbuhman1066 58. You're only a young fella my friend.

@@IceBreakBottle No I am not, and I refuse to be classified by your opinion. Good day.

@@andrewbuhman1066 Well you come across as being rather immature

chester rockwell awe really? I get nostalgic over 2009 because I was 20 years old with minimum responsibilities 😩 and actually had a summer break

chester rockwell i get nostalgic for 2016 lol

I was born in the year of 2000s. Best time of my life though.

Ah yes, I remember my angsty edgy profile page with edgy nu metal music playlist xD

@@rockkiller124Edgy nu metal is my guilty pleasure I still love it lol

Jeez

Women in underwear are awesome I dont understand. Now all the girls wear leggings so you can literally see everything. I feel like I'm at a strip club every day just in public.. hope the legging trend doesnt go away

lol bad on you nigga

Okay kip droordy

@@charlesday9850 I hope you're kidding

Trust me, you didnt miss anything LOL . Even the fb app was atrocious back then, if they even had one.

oh man. the good old days of "Can I use your guys computer to check my myspace real quick?"

Ok milenial

Ahh fuck, I shouldn't have looked at mine.

I do not want to ever see my old MySpace...

RE2LeonS really? Mine is gone and has been since they went down years ago and then when they came back it’s just empty. No friends or any of my old content. Sad, id like to have all those cringey memories back.

How the hell you remember your password?

That was the worst

When they got rid of that i left!

@@Hotobu I hated that shit. I got tired of manually hitting pause or stop every time I went to someone's page.

It did kind of grow old hearing the same song over and over. I always changed my song about every 2 weeks. Most of my friends changed their profile song regularly as well. The best was when you remembered a forgotten favorite of you and your friends and posted it before anyone else did. My friends and I were always trying to remember songs. Always like, "Forgot all about this! I loved this song!!!"

Kris Hammer yeah that was the ish

Better

A way better place

Nah it would have turned into exactly what Facebook is but worse. Murdoch wants complete control, both political and financial.

The NSA invested heavily in Facebook, they wouldve just took over Myspace instead. Tyranny will never end until we make it. Theyre entrenched too deep to simply run from it

I dont think zucc or fb is really responsible for what fb became, though. Whoever armed themselves with fb wouldve just armed themselves with myspace instead, and THAT would be the platform that currently stalks us, blocks us from making any comments, and makes endless ad revenue off our data, etc.

could you recover some old music i made. circa 2009

@@MattaLac1987 Nobody will be able to recover the missing music library from MySpace. The exact physical storage hardware that used to have all of their music has long since been shredded. Since MySpace had switched ownership a few times, the newer datacenter management team(s) likely didn't know what they had. They obviously didn't migrate everything successfully. Sad, really. . . And we all think that what goes onto the internet stays there forever. . .. However, It too, can vanish into thin air completely with absolutely zero evidence that it ever existed in the first place.

So true. The internet truly sucks nowadays. The days of early chatrooms and the like were so great. I met so many amazing people, a couple of which I still speak to this day.

Not really

m3revspeed The 1890s was the real amazing time before they invented all this bullshit

Yep loved yahoo chat rooms, met a lot of people and one I still talk to from time to time although we never met in person.

m3revspeed exactly! So true!

if you have got something to hide, pls do not use SOCIAL networks sites... And "without restrictions", you say? Interesting, what restrictions you find so harmfull and inconvenient?

@@zdzichus.3264 For me I have nothing to hide, but having my mom and my closed minded relatives over there judging every move that I do (my profile picture, what I post etc.) is a pain in the ass.

Me too even friends with famous people

Truer Words Have Never Been Spoken My Friend. I Don't Even Need to post now because you literally said EXACTLY What I feel.

So true I understand exactly like God forbid grandma see you in a tank top that says bitch lasagna now mom knows who tells dad who now tells the aunt and now all ur comments are your family saying how inappropriate that is and just total cringe (just my instant vision I had hence I grew up in foster care n group homes so I only have a sister I found years later than I stay close too but I totally understood what he meant why everybody got a make something into nothing it's so wierd ur parents on their sometimes its them that do the embarrassing stuff u dont want people u know to see hence why most peoples friend lists r private

Riiight 😆

Safer at hiding paedos

Ngl having the background makes me go full conspiracy mode. Government lays out it's investigating Myspace for being unsafe for minors, MSM reports Facebook as "safe" alternative that people are flocking to. The government then steps on Facebook's neck over privacy concerns, & out pop government contracts.

false Myspace people were peaceful and careing ppl amd dateing was easier and ppl actually cared to be your real friend then people moved to facebook and became Toxic @ss holes plus Facebook been getting bad Reports about privacy issues.

Gabbriel79 Dude that made no sence what so Ever lmao🙄🤦 the Dude comment is only saying its safe mines more Describeing how its safe and how it use to be.

The 2000's were a fun decade. the 2010s sucked! Hopefully the 2020's will be like the 2000's again.

Definitely agree and also being able to have people call you with their phone and have the conversation on MySpace at the computer. Customized wall papers backgrounds etc. Wayy better than Fb

Agreed. When they started copying Facebook is when I left MySpace permanently because there was no point if they were just going to be Facebook Lite instead of being a unique alternative. If I somehow came into possession of ownership of what remains of MySpace, I would push to make MySpace like it was in the 2000s again. With the right marketing, I think that it could be successful given that people are hating Facebook more and more and are beginning to have nostalgia for the MySpace of the 2000s.

@tsorf 1990s > 2000s > 2010s We seem to be going downhill each new decade; I hope that the 2020s changes that.

Yea they tried to fix what wasn't broken

Mia Mia 😂💀💀😂😂💯

Myspace used to have free mp3 audio music files you could download :)

LOL, I remember those days..... Hamster Dance would play whenever anyone logged onto my page.

The real lesson here is, be careful when a greedy, self-obsessed billionaire buys your social media site. ... Twitter, are you listening???

I agree I literally only keep it to talk to family out of state and get ahold of people that I don't have their number. FB sucks

Lol

Lmao

Next time say xanga! What social media do kids use anyway?

@@dipsy012 People don't use Myspace anymore.

Facebook and Twitter is for old people 🤷‍♂️

Even now i CAN KNOW !!!! I still use MYSPACE every day, and i have my old photo and music back. and i'm from Belgium in EOROPA

Kim Kardashian hosts- vh1's 'the 20-oughts'

No relation

ColdFusion wow great algorythm... glad It's back up!!

Thankfully! I was wondering where it went...never got a chance to watch lol

Good news, keep the videos up :)

Did you get the ad revenue for the views before youtube took it down ? Otherwise I'll watch it again.

Yeah, the music pages were great. I found so much music. I even spoke to the indie band Grizzly Bear when they were still quite new - I was quite surprised when I saw how big they became.

@@memofromessex I spoke to Alter Bridge about the possibility of them performing at my college festival. Crazy.

♥

Garrett Szilard or how about this one? MeWe Network by Sgrouples, Inc. itunes.apple.com/us/app/mewe-network/id918464474?mt=8

@@quarlic MeWe is cool.

oceania68 It sure is, and I hope all 2 billion Facebook users join it.

He was everyone's friend,man's a saint

... and he was a friend to everyone, no matter your beliefs.

It's also what made MySpace insecure.

I riotously enjoyed customising my Myspace background with widgets like music players, surveys etc. using HTML!

@American Patriot Ya, you were all of what 11, maybe 12. Those Playdates must have been intense! Rockin' the sand box, Mondays. Sand the seesaw, Tuesdays. etc. Either that, or they thought you were gay (you know - happy) and wanted to talk boys...

@Luke Robinett You forgot to say... "Get off my lawn!!!" Don't forget to wave your cane around all menacing like, the idiot kids really hate that alot!

Carmen Landrum same!

Oh it's coming...

@@kmsharley75 consciousness and mindfulness of people, who refuse to be just 'users'...

censorship

Oh they are doing the exact same thing right now :D :D and so is TWITCH :D I fucking love seing them kill themselves with their stupid GREED!! and MicroManagement of political views!! Bye Bye to the TittieStreamers :D they SHOULD be on PornHub and not on Twitch, but I guess we are just moving to Mixer now, since well, they have guidelines that are to be followed, and sofar no preferential treatment of hoebags doing nothing on stream!

Facebook kill itself

NeickhaSuPRA wtf is a tumblr?

Huh, so there’s a pattern.

Yeah but they just started censoring Tumblr, but I knew dat would happen because Tumblr was wild as hell.

@@MoroccanRose85 I knew that would happen once they started to get ads back in like 2010 then yahoo got in the picture years ago. The internet in general is wild but once you get a big corporation behind a website it's over.

I wanna get in to tumblr bc i feel like i’d love it I just wouldn’t know where to start lol

As oposed to?

It did my head in that every time you went onto a page you had to hear whatever shitty music someone had chosen. Had to mute, and then kept forgetting to take it off when I went on RU-vid.

It was the customization that killed it! Don't let users design their own pages, they are not good at it 😂

I met my wife on MySpace back in 2009, No clue who added who, but we have been married since 2012, with one kid and very happy.

The backgrounds were pretty sweet

I hated how l Iong it took for the page to load depending on how much was put on a page

you are not forced to use facebook lol

You Can Still Use MySpace But Most Of Your'e Friends Wont Be Using It

A lot of people would say *Craigslist* is the best thing on the internet. At least CL has enough sense to stay low and remain in the gutter where it belongs, unlike most other social network platforms ;)

@John Delaney Thanks for the recommendation I now have an account though I’m kinda afraid to meet Internet people,can you give me advice.

@@ployth9000 you were you just don’t know it, government colluded with sell out mark cuckerberg for all your where abouts and thoughts that you post daily

I so forgot about that

Code or copy and paste code?

@@MaynardOwns Both. I learn HTML from blogging and MySpace. From copy paste i figured which code should be edited etc.

Same here. Although I really got my first taste messing with the source code for games on my TI-83+ graphing calculator a few years before MySpace, but MySpace was my first foray into html and learning about file hosting and how the internet works in general. Fast forward to today and now I'm a software engineer.

I put that I know html on my resumes 😂

I hate paying for Red and being hit with in-video manscapes ads lol

@@JohnSuchman why I never got red there is no point to getting it

@@gangrail I've had red for like a year since the pandemic started and haven't seen a single ad, if you watch RU-vid more than TV red is definitely worth it I hated being forced to sit through 2 pre rolls

RU-vid been there since they startrd advertisements.

People have to make money. Many tech startups never turn a profit.

Remember ‘asl’ in the yahoo and AOL chats?

John Doe factuals 💯

Same

@@user-if1de8pt2j they allowed html/css for your page. It was a bug (a really bad one that hopefully no one with more than 3 days of development experience would make nowadays) turned "feature"

@@OatmealTheCrazy Well developers nowadays make bloated trash with illogical user interfaces that spy on you. At least Tom's site was nice and simple.

@@haikat4 that's capitalism for ya

@@OatmealTheCrazy I don't use FB anymore. Best decision I've ever made. But the bright white background that you weren't allow to change was quite annoying. All the pixels on your monitor firing off brightly making you very uneasy was awful. The reason you can't change that background is because Mark Zuckerturd likes the blue and white background for him so he doesn't want anybody to be able to change it. Shows what kind of a narcissist Zuckerturd is. And the false flagging for "hate speech" was bad too.

@@ARedMotorcycle facebook dark mode has been there for some time now

Nah I watched motion pictures taken by Thomas Edison and others from before him to remind me how young I am.

I think either Yale or Harvard issues a document every fall to its professors listing the things which the incoming 18 y.o. freshmen won't have firsthand knowledge of. It's always a shock. I heard one today. When Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes was in kindergarten. :-/

That was before this life became Orwellian. I just wanted to skate and play video games back then. Little did we know, we were entering a dark era of social programming. Now we see social media for what it is. I miss the feeling of not giving a shit back in the early 2000s..

😁

I feel the way I imagine my parents do when they see old pictures and videos of them in like the 80's

ahh haha!! I had mine switched every day

yes, that was a thing! :D god

happy days

not gonna lie, i disowned everyone who did that to me. thinned skinned, yea...but is what it is

@@deedeemerry1295 I think Myspace was bought from the people who work for fb,like here in Slovenia, foreign people are coming,buying our factories etc.,and after a year they shot down,here ,somebody is really organized and they want to destroy everything.We have to unite the love in us collectively.It was so free MS,if you really liked someone it was a peace of cake,now fb if I think deeply started to give us a sense of power in us to judge people by appearance don't even knowing the real true of a person.

Check out thr Facebook video for that

Yea I'm very curious about the sudden migration. Did they open it to more than students in 2008? because it felt very sudden and nonsensical. I really still doubt thats the main reason of it, but maybe partial explanation as to at least why SOME people started migrating? idk maaaan, very suspicious

its still there

It became trash

i was a. child during photobucket's prime. when i ask to see old pictures of me (i grew up during the transition from film cameras to digital) half of my pictures are printed, half are lost on photobucket. my mom doesn't remember the password. )-:

I logged into mine last month after years! It now charges you to post shit in there which is fine since I won’t ever use it

GrotesqueHyydra 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Reminds me of refusing to switch from ICQ to Skype a million years ago 😅

😂But Zuckerberg isn't stupid that's why he just bought whatsapp and insta🤷🏽‍♂️

Lolololol

Soon twitter will probably be next, like they say if you can't beat your competition you buy them before they become to powerful and expensive to overcome

@@Stantheman9398 I HATE Twitter lol

@@Stantheman9398 Twitter is for the olds. Gleepglorp is what's new AAAAAAAAAAAAAND now the olds took that over too...

Myspace was the best social media ever. I don't think it will ever get better than Myspace. I loved customizing my profile and reading peoples post and getting excited when I got on somebodies top 8 friends. I miss it.

Got worse

Yea, right!

The ultimate irony, amiright? I remember the news shows talking smack about myspace and directing people to a secure alternative called Facebook.

@@yourhuckleberry2529 it was all part of the plan

No. ppl believed the propaganda driven by a news cast.. Nothing new in that regard. While Myspace may have been lacking in foreseeing what the population would expect. FB in its early days was no better. My memory of FB was it was complicated to use and just a wast of time. Myspace was still the go to platform. Today, FB still hasn't changed. Its Biz page is still over complected and a F.... around for the simplest of tasks. Not to mention the miss informed information given to tracking info.

😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Exactly lol! And then they eventually allowed a top 50 or something lol.

Damn I forgot about that feature!

Hahahaha! Yes!

@Teh Modest Mouse deleted/canceled/deactivated it. Doesn't matter, it's been deactivated for about 2 years with zero plans to go back.

Facebook is horrible. I haven't been on it in over a year and it isn't until after you've been off it for a while that you realize how bad it really is.

Here's something that gave me a chuckle: Last time I used Facebook was in 2012, and I while I was up north in Brisbane I changed all my details, and posted that I would be moving to Malaysia(all my detail changes related to this). I had no plans on doing this, and the laptop I used was retired shortly after. I did move, but to a town about 100kms from my last house. Last year I got an email from Facebook recommending me businesses in the town I where I currently live, which is again another 100kms from the address I had moved to. How the fuck they managed to figure out where I live is a good mystery, it's also fucking terrifying.

there was a resurgence on myspace 2 years ago, but it was all altright trolls lol

Charles Lindeman Everything is linked. You yahoos put all your information online in different locations and that information gets colated. Facebook is funded by the CIA which makes matters worse. The Federal clandestine agencies, of which Australia is part of the five eyes intelligence community, have been surveilling you and you volunteered all your info. I hate to say this but you are a zombie sheep who literally gave up your liberty and privacy.

Not all of us, some copy pasted and ended up with an ad all over there page and couldn't figure out what happened lol I remember people asking me to help them get rid of it because I learned html code to personalize mine completely

I love how everyone mentions html but not css.

I learned Javascript...old ass web 1.0 javascript

@@LostHope84 i also like how everyone thinks they code because they copy and paste lol

@@mrshiver3241 that is what 30% coding is

Yes, the world has become a very disturbing place in a short period of time.

I bet y'all are like 14. Stfu

Same! 😊

RobbieSuede13 I swear !!

Yeah, sure.

Literally thinking the same thing hah

Yeah starts with the layout changed people then leave myspace forever. I bet they were arrogant enough to think their moves was correct.

Lyric W. FACTS

Yessss. And u would go on my page or others and their music of choice would come on... good old days

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Yes

HTML isn't a programming language. Its literally just using tags to format display.

Definitely

Exactly

It looked like dog vomit

😹😹😹😹

I remember how you could make your cruiser a little avatar too!

Yeah the constant changing of the page themes got annoying real quick. lmao

I did the same. I can still code in html today. I didnt even realize it was coding! I just wanted to have a nice page! I miss being able to post things on other ppls pages and share music and even my own tracks. Quite a few rappers and bands became famous using myspace music pages. I used to hate that bug tho, where a band page always had u as "104 year old female" lol but it was fun. I remember a lot of websites dedicated to pre programmed myspace layouts. And u could have a youtube video on ur page too. That was so cool. It was slower but a lot more fun. Fb is not as fun. And way too serious. I cant say SHIT without getting a 30 day ban. I got 7 between october of 2019 and oct of 2020. That is so harmful when u have a job and stuff.... I finally just stopped posting and my facebook just exists to receive messages. And i post my opinions on Parler. Parler is actually cool not as cool as myspace was but check it out. Ppl think its mostly conservatives but thats not true. Lots of gamers and libertarians and youtubers who are sick of being banned and stuff. A lot of good ppl who were demonetized are making come backs too. Theres some iffy characters but hey its free speech. I like it a lot more. Gives me freedom and control of what i see and post. Parler themselves even upvoted several of my posts. Thats pretty cool.

@@juanmccoy3066 Yeah, I'm two weeks into a 30-day ban I received two days following a release from 30-day banned camp. You know those spambots that automatically post on certain pages advertising a psychic or someone who'll work a spell to bring your ex back, or pimp Bitcoin? I said to one of those 'bots "F*◇k off, sl♤t" and was IMMEDIATELY given 30 days. For dissing a 'BOT! Seems that since the pandemic, FB has instituted algorithms that key on certain words or combinations of words instead of having mods or sysops decide what is right or wrong; Zuck has laid off so much staff which must make the shareholders giddy with joy. So you have to mind your P's and Q's as you don't know what will cause the blade to fall. Oh, also, if someone reports a comment, it automatically generates a ban. If you appeal, it will be denied within 60 seconds as there's no humans making judgement calls anymore.

roachtoasties U known the worts „to big to fail“

Tell that to microsoft

Facebook is one indispensable reason why MySpace failed. Without an alternative, people would have stuck with MySpace, despite its limitations and the inevitable moral panics that new media get to suffer. Replacing RU-vid is possible, but much more difficult. There are no real alternatives to it at this point, and the infrastructure required by a contender would be enormous.

Even Google will die eventually, they don't even give conservative views a ranking.

@@thomasmadison3896 like your mum?

😂 What the hell?

MySpace sure made it easy for emo / screamo / pop punk type bands to invite eager underage girls backstage for "autographs" and "photos." No, I'm not accusing you or your band (whose name I don't even know) of doing this, but it was the dirty little secret of MySpace which ruined, or at least took the innocence of, a lot of girls, most of whom had scarred wrists due to the cutting phenomenon which MySpace also enabled / accelerated. But at least it wasn't created by the See Eye Ay to monitor us, as Fbook was...

@@ibelieveicansoar People always find a way to crap up anything...politics, religion and even charity.

My favorite things about it!

@samantha tang Facebook isn't any better

We Game woooosh

I used ProjectPlaylist and loaded it with all my favorite songs. Miss those days.

And playin in a band. Recording songs in a studio and fire them up on myspace. and connect with other bands. Best times!

18? He looked about 28 in that picture

@samantha tang you sound like an 12yr watch out for you're language cause you're probably never gonna succeed this much

Yep. The exit plan, who cares if you were Microsoft or not, many tech startups have that exit plan strategy, just sell out and do something else.

@@aesthetichershey2690 *Your, idiot. If you can't spell or use proper grammar, I doubt you'll succeed much.

@@AngelaAlbertina W

Omg yes the candy crush n game invites must stop than ull click on their profile and that's like legit all that's on their is their last score update lmao ahhhhhh🙅‍♀️💥 (subscribe to pewdiepie 🤜🤛)

I too was one of the last people to leave, I don’t know what made Facebook popular, I went to Facebook because everyone left MySpace. Now however MySpace is trash

a world w/o memes is atrocious.

Yeeesss, YEEESS, AND OMG YYYYEEESSSS! I deleted my FB account in Jan. this year because it's just NOT fun anymore. It's debates, angry comments, politics, news, game invites, trying to take the best pictures to make your friends jealous. I just... I hate it, and not having it has been remarkable. My friends have to talk or text to me what they have to say, if they REALLY want to show me a picture they can text it. I pay less attention to my phone and treat it more of a tool. The addiction is real too, when I first deleted FB, and I mean LEGIT deleted it, I had a 30 day grace period to undo my request. It took every bit of strength to not sign back on and have it forever deleted, but now I think back and think how silly I was, and how sad I was that I used social media as some affirmation to being civilized. I kinda feel like a rebel when I tell people "No, I don't have a facebook, but heres my phone number."

The stripping of the site's core functionality drove the last of us away. It was sad watching the media corral everyone into the Book of Faces.