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“Guitar bands have no future in rock and roll” - Decca music executive 1962 after listening to a demo from some band from Liverpool.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
— Bill Gates
I have no doubt myspace will close down. Too much trouble brewing because of it.
It’s about time someone said that. Myspace is horribly annoying, with the ability to easily repost chain letters as bulletins, the vulnerability to hacks and spam, the horrendous advertising, the all-too-frequent abuse of HTML that makes pages take forever to load or scroll down, the music players that automatically start, the fact that there’s never a way to confirm ownership of the profile, and on top of all that the frequency with which the site won’t work or only works on certain browsers, it gets easily overloaded if it’s a holiday, etc. I like Facebook a lot more, it’s neater, simpler, I’ve never encountered a hacked profile that posted spam, and you know who people are. If Facebook somehow integrates a music section for bands and such, I think it would easily overtake Myspace. Also, the Facebook developers are a lot more receptive to what their users want and don’t want.
It’s about time someone said that. Myspace is horribly annoying, with the ability to easily repost chain letters as bulletins, the vulnerability to hacks and spam, the horrendous advertising, the all-too-frequent abuse of HTML that makes pages take forever to load or scroll down, the music players that automatically start, the fact that there’s never a way to confirm ownership of the profile, and on top of all that the frequency with which the site won’t work or only works on certain browsers, it gets easily overloaded if it’s a holiday, etc. I like Facebook a lot more, it’s neater, simpler, I’ve never encountered a hacked profile that posted spam, and you know who people are. If Facebook somehow integrates a music section for bands and such, I think it would easily overtake Myspace. Also, the Facebook developers are a lot more receptive to what their users want and don’t want.
There will be a new competitor that will beat MySpace at its own game.
Wikipedia and Google/Gmail don’t respect their users either.
Wiki uses gaystapo tactics to silences critics of homosexuality and other politically incorrect accounts of history.
Google snoops mail and browsing habits for commercial advertising plugs. Wonder what else they may be building a profile for. Google bows to Communist China.
As for Myspace, yeah, they treat users poorly and still have stability problems. The crass commercialism and overhyping of MSM junk is offputting. Then again, the beast is pumping their prepackaged pablum in any “underground” site (even FR gets spammed by drive by posters). In a world of alternate media, the establishment has to pretend to be your friend and not commercially connected to the mass media.
Add to this problems of malicious hackers, spammers, et al and their billion dollar site doesn’t look so good. For now there is confusion where to “leap to”.
Every MySpace page I’ve seen looks like a nightmare of clutter. They must market themselves to teens and teen-minded adults.