MySpace

I have never really seen the appeal of MySpace. I love having a free way of socially connecting with my friends online, but it just seems like MySpace doesn't allow you to actually organise things, or even have a conversation. You can talk to and add anyone you like, so there is no privacy, which strikes me as a bad idea in this age where identities and almost everything else can be stolen.

The only use I can see for MySpace is for up and coming, or newly starting music artists and the like to advertise themselves for free and introduce people to their music. This aspect I think is really good because it gives people a chance to get discovered without having to spend time and money trapsing around to recording studios and agents.

On the whole, I think MySpace was a novel idea about 7 years ago, but honestly, I much prefer Facebook!

I like the growth and use of MySpace, but I completely hate how many spammers have joined the site creating fake profiles.

I dislike Myspace in the extreme...I just. I understand why people would like it I find it a place where people tend to express their worst. I use Facebook and the environment is generally at least milder in that regard.

Oh, how quickly the Internet forgets. If Shakespeare were alive & writing today, I believe he'd say 'How fickle these web-surfing mortals be!' in his updated 'Amid-Free-WiFi Night's Dream.'

Honestly, even if it's the uncool thing to say - there were & are some things about Myspace that I prefer over Facebook & other social networking sites. Maybe I just feel a loyalty to my first, the one that took my social network virginity. But when people were still using both, I would go to Myspace first to contact them & keep up with them. Of course, it's no longer really a useful site since the vast majority do not use it. I would say it is still a pretty good place to keep up with musicians and 'celebrities' - although that seems on the way out as well, onto greater Internet pastures.

It's fun to go to now & then just for nostalgia - interesting to read comments and blogs past, even if there's no new content.

...Of course, I've been fortunate enough to never have a friend or to need to visit a profile that used the shiny, blink-y, marquee scrolling, scary customizations that would nearly induce seizures. If I did, I might have ran away to Facebook, screaming for mercy.

Old not fun, and horrible at keeping in touch with friends! Like the way that you can pimp your profile though!

Nice way to meet up with local bands.

I feel that myspace is for the 20 to 30 something crowd for the most part. I have nothing against it and it appears to be a great site, but for the younger crowd.

All my friends are on it so I have one. But I'm not addicted to it

I have always preferred facebook over myspace. This is because facebook is a lot more secure with more privacy options. Myspace is too unpredictable in terms of who is trying to access your profile and is able to find you in a search. To its credit though, myspace is the original in terms of setting the standard for the popularity and potential of social networking sites.

I'm not really an attention whore...I rather enjoy my privacy.

Myspace is full of queers.

Not my cup of tea.

I never really wanted to use myspace. The profiles of most people are hideous. They put glitter, dark colors, skulls, loud music... you never know what you will get when you check out some profile. It also had a lot of bugs. It would say that your profile is private when it really wasn't and other unwanted people could see it. There is a tone of spam messages that you get. In other words - it's a waste of time.

Messy, confusing, unorganized...
What reasons do I have to use MySpace when I have Facebook, a much modern and convenient social networking site?

It's OK, but it's too cluttered. They allow too much customization, and this lead to many poorly designed home pages.

UPDATE: It's about time I lowered my rating of MySpace from 3 stars down to 1 star. I never got into MySpace that much, and I had gotten to the point where I only logged in once every couple of weeks or so to delete spammy friend requests. I think I only had 9 friends anyway, and all of them are now on Facebook. I had been meaning to delete my account sooner or later, but a recent event finally motivated me to cancel.

This event was the recent partial acquisition of imeem.com. MySpace gave imeem users no advance notification that changes were imminent. All that happened was that one day imeem worked, the next you got directed to MySpace with a message saying that they had acquired imeem, and that you should get a MySpace account, and if you wanted any of your old profile or playlist information to work, you had to get an account with the same email address you used for imeem. They also make a vague claim to try to keep all of your playlists, but that you currently can't access them.

I had a MySpace account, but it was not with the same email address that I used for imeem. So rather than create a second MySpace account for music, I just deleted my old account and will not set up a new one. I'll use something else for music.

To make things worse, a lot of artists who sold their music through imeem will not be paid, as MySpace somehow managed to only acquire certain assets from imeem, which did not include any of their debt.

Overall, this was a very shady, rushed deal, and for me it was the last straw with MySpace. A quick google search or a look at imeem's Facebook page will show you that I'm not alone.

ok.. prefer facebook though

Never had the use for it.

garbage

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When I first started MySpace I really enjoyed connecting with people, I even made some life long friends, however recently with the invent of applications and other things I find that myspace has deteriorated to the place I go to if I want to find new bands

MySpace is great! I like the new features they're starting to put in, like the IM and the new Mail. It's pretty cool because I can have people email me, and it'll go to my MySpace account! I personally check my MySpace more than my millions of email accounts (some of them are dead I think), so it's pretty convenient to me.

For brain-dead high-school idiots and their ilk.

Myspace was cool like four years ago, before social networking found its niche in Facebook. Myspace now has really become just one big giant advertising site. The only people who go on are in highschool, or trying to sell you crap.

Its a great place to hang out. I have many friends here.

Myspace is fun and you can keep in touch with a lot of old friends and other people. But after a while it may get a little boring if you're not completely obsessed with it already ;) and sometimes you forget to check your myspace messages and comments for months at a time because you have other better things to do...

Its ok,more for the younger set but is popular.

yes i think so

It's pretty much the worst social networking site ever. All the people on it are idiotic and the layouts will blind you. Stick with Facebook, it's simpler and way better.

I dislike MySpace largely for its asthetics: I hate browsing or especially using sites which look messy and unorganized.

I don't have one but my friend says its stupid. And it aannoys me.

It's a popularity contest.

I think what saves myspace from getting the 1 star rating is that a lot of musicians/bands use them as an official site. Other than that, sites like myspace and facebook are a Pandora's Box, which I wouldn't open if you paid me to. I recently spoke w/someone I hadn't in a while, and she said, hey, I tried to look you up on facebook. I basically said facebook is too cool for me.

Myspace is so 2007. It's like a ghost town over there now. Everyone has packed up and moved to Facebook, many reluctantly.

One day everyone woke up, logged into Myspace and realized not one person had sent them a "Have A Happy Hump Day!!" comment, their friends' moods hadn't been updated in over 24 hours, and there was a faint sound of crickets coming from the activity feed.

This is when the average Myspace user realized the only way to keep in touch with friends is via Twitter and Facebook.

Myspace was a flash in the pan and now society is on to other ways to annoy your friends.

It was a great place while it lasted, though. In it's hey-day I would've rated it 4-5 stars...today, due to the fact that no one is using it anymore, I give it a generous 2 stars.

Myspace is a lot like skinny jeans on men. It was sexy and cool back in 1982, but today...notsomuch.

yes I do use myspace

I am still very reserved about these types of online share blogs. We need to remeber than anything we ever put on the internet is basiclly there forever, so just be careful.

Excellent avenue!

What fun!

Apparently I cannot give a current review. I tried and nothing happened. I am once again attempting to do so, hoping this time it will "take." I have an entirely different opinion of MySpace than I did a few years ago. I want to change my rating. First of all, since my first review, they have improved their site considerably in my opinion. I found a background that worked for me; I can easily edit and add new stuff on my personals page whenever I feel like it; I can have virtually unlimited personal blogs; and I can have virtually unlimited photos added to my photo albums, and right now I have several hundred. I can access others' pages; listen to music on others MySpace pages; email people, etc. I think they're great. And these days I no longer have anywhere near as many "friends" request from sexy-looking females that are unsolicited and unwanted as I did back then. MySpace are apparently monitoring their site more closely now. I am an older guy and not looking for dates so am not concerned about pedophiles myself anyway. My sister originally turned me on to MySpace and she too is pleased with the content, photos, etc. she is allowed. Who needs Facebook? MySpace rules. Thanks for a good, and FREE, site that lets you create virtually unlimited content with practically no problems at all these days.

Yes...that's right...put your entire life and personal feelings on the internet where anyone with half a brain can hack into it...I'm sorry, I can't remember, how many people have died or been raped from being found on this site now?

and pedophiles love it too!

I like it, im member of it for years, its maybe better than facebook.

MySpace was cool when nothing else was around. No it's not cool and only in existence because of the multi-millions of people that visit their pages once every couple of months.

If you say so

It is more for the younger people that like pictures

When I joined MySpace I was so pleased by it that it would have got 5 stars. Meanwhile it has been fraught with ever new features and become slow. Some friends I liked a lot disappeared from it or prefer similar sites.

And I came to prefer RIA.

I'm still on MySpace for the sake of some people who became quite dear to me in the course of time. If it weren't for them MySpace would be history to me.

MySpace  does have some bugs ("an unexpected error has occurred"), but it's a free website that's well worth the price!

As an attorney I've used "My Waste" to embarrass witnesses and research jurors often. Please keep babbling on! Dumbasses.

I had been toying with the idea of setting up a MySpace page for a couple of years and decided to give it a go along with Twitter after going through one hell of a period from 9-02-08 thru 4-25-09 when my old man died and my mother was operated on for cancer and arterial blockage in both legs (she's 90, diabetic, and blind. I, for the most, part take care of her), along with a host of minor shitstorms.

For some reason, I felt the need to see what the fuss was all about and to get a little more outside exposure. Suffice it to say that I was less than impressed. Weeding out the annoying from the insane was almost a full time job (Twitter was worse, what with the hookers and continual bombardment by "Have you tried this product, or how to amass 2 million friends (or whatever they're called) by using this (link to bullshit).

Granted I'm new to the online social networking scene though hardly new to the net/web and I may have expected too much from it, but given my experience, it's unlikely, though not a given, that I'll return.

I'm sure many have had a positive experience on both sites, but for me, right now, I think I'll look elsewhere.

They have CRAPPY customer service. They don't really even pay attention to what you're asking them to do when you email them. They don't have an 800 number. I have emailed myspace a total of 6 times, the first being a request for help updating my email so I could delete my profile, which they ignored; the second time was with a "salute" per their guidelines so they would delete the profile; the third was another request to delete the profile but following a different set of delete instructions they'd posted on their website telling me to remove all content, send a link to them of my profile, and putting "remove profile" in the about me section; the fourth was a repeat of the third; the fifth email was a "what do I have to freaking do before you'll remove this profile, I've already deleted everything and put in "remove profile"?"; the 6th was a repeat of the fifth. THESE PEOPLE ARE RETARDS. They didn't pay any attention at all to the problems that I was having with their site, and then now that I'm trying to delete my profile, they are STILL ignoring me.

good i like myspace