My Experience with Social Networks and Why I Really Miss MySpace

Blogger! Yay! Another site to immerse myself in internet culture! Another site to keep track of!!

So many sites, so many usernames, and so many passwords. Kids in the future are going to have a hard time coming up with usernames. Sorry Billy from the year 2050, but "billy1234567890987654321" is already taken. Please try another username.

I’ve been using social networks since 2006 when I joined MySpace. I was thirteen or fourteen years old, then considered too young to have a MySpace. I do not know if it was actually that good or because it was the first social network site I used, but I really miss it. And I cannot stress enough how much I miss it. Yeah, I have so many memories from that site that I consider 2006-2009 the "MySpace Era" and I look back onto it occasionally and wish I can go back. It was just too cool! But more on that in a bit. When Myspace became “unpopular” around 2009, I switched to Facebook like everyone else. I didn’t stop there. I eventually created a Twitter. I then made an Instagram account a few years later when I bought my first smartphone. I had a LinkedIn account for like 10 minutes to experience what it was like to be an adult. I got scared and deleted that quickly.

Back to MySpace. I know that MySpace is still around. But its nowhere near the same. It doesn’t have the same layout, feel, or appeal. I LOVED what you were able to do on it. You could've customized the page any way you want as long as you knew the coding, which many people learned because of the site! Websites were available with the coding needed for a specific purpose You wanted a picture of a red corvette for your banner on the page? Some sites had those kinds of options with a link to embed and the code provided. People were able to really personalize their page. It was unique them. Social networks now are dull. But somehow they appeal to everyone, including myself. Facebook is actually becoming more and more dull, in my opinion. I’ve been using it less and less the last couple years. Now I say I use it less, but if you know me and see my posts you know that I post a lot. Actually, I just share funny posts or news posts that interest me. I no longer post nowhere near as many statuses as I used to, nor do I read too many posts from other people. That's why I mean "less." Facebook is just so boring! You look at your newsfeed and see what's going on. You're never really on your page. At least with MySpace you viewed your page and people commented to you. And then you went on someone else's page and saw how cool their page was and wished you had that background of abstract art for your own page, but you couldn't because then you'd be a copy cat and who wants that? The only benefit of Facebook is keeping up with news, and occasionally you'll see a post from a friend and then you'll "like" it.

I remember a few years after leaving MySpace, and before it changed to what it is now, I logged back into MySpace and recreated my page. Although, I then remembered why I left. It was becoming too much like Facebook. It wasn't as unique.

So, the order of favorites from greatest to least:


Old MySpace
Facebook (despite becoming boring)
Instagram
Twitter
New MySpace

Please, can someone do us all a favor and bring back the classic MySpace before it turned to crap? Although, my top friends list is going to change dramatically. You'll have that number one slot if this happens...just saying.

- C