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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.
People who weren't there in it's prime can't even understand how awesome myspace was. Spent my teenage years there. Because of the limitless ways to edit your profile exactly how you wanted, it was always interesting to visit other peoples profiles to see what they had created. Good times.
I had The Boondock Saints wallpaper and the the theme song to go along with it back in middle school. Much simpler times, yet I was 5x as useful with a computer. I couldn't do that stuff now wily nilly
This was social media before the newsfeed. People were more inclined to communicate directly with each other rather than passively posting content for attention.
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.
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 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!.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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
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 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...
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've always disliked facebook. It caters to the most uncreative people and sleazy businesses. Even before it started selling our data, it was trash. I only keep a facebook page because of extended family. Myspace was great for self-expression. Facebook is for people who need to scream into the void.
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.
MySpace and blockbuster are parallel in this case: Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix but declined blockbuster failed MySpace had the opportunity to buy Facebook but declined, MySpace failed
I see what you’re saying but not really, Netflix offers so much more than blockbuster……while Facebook offers… nothing more than MySpace. Just copied MySpace, and got the push and blessings of the “powers that be” and so it was
@@chrisr7235I know this is old, but in the beginning, Netflix was just a mail order physical rental company, not the streaming giant that they are today. They also ended up causing the end of blockbuster, so it is a great parallel
"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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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.....
For those of us who were teenagers and very early 20's back when MySpace started, it was a whole new world. We loved it! Yet, some how, we let it get away from us and we followed another but eventual sad trend. We let Facebook take us and Facebook had their way with us. It turned out to not be a great trade at all.
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 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.
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 🤘
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 ?
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.
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
I remember facebook been "lame" and had my first social account in myspace. But myspace truly dropped the ball on the interface issue, the rest is history
I dont know why facebook hasnt gone down the same path. I find myself not being able to stay on it for longer than 3 minutes and everyone else says the same. Its complete garbage now but its still around. Dunno why...
@@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.
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
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.
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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 ❤
just turned 28, so don’t really remember the myspace era... think i had one for like a year back in middle school, right as it was at the end of its lifespan, before switching to facebook. but all my older cousins who more clearly remember it say they preferred it to what we had as teens in the 2010’s (fb, insta, snap, vine)
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.
MySpace was fun. Another similar, customizable social media sight could find a market in today's crowded, bland social media landscape. Should a company want to go that route. Just like the vid stated, Facebook didn't beat MySpace, MySpace beat itself and there just weren't better options available than Facebook. So, MySpace users simply migrated to FB. Today's servers and internet speeds could have 100 MySpaces worth of users at its peak and show no signs of lag, which was a pretty significant factor in users leaving for the no-lag FB. The ads that plagued MS in the Fox years would be no more. Idk, is MS down to about $50? I'd buy it.
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?
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…
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.
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
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
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.
I never understood why people moved to Facebook and I’m still mad about. MySpace was far superior in every way and was so much better to customize everything, why did people ever leave? Facebook was like going back in time. The only reason I even created a Facebook was because everyone had left MySpace for it. I never wanted to leave MySpace.
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 still miss the old TH-cam 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.
In the segments going towards the end That's not what happened 😕 The site was still enjoyable to people, even with the individual page customizations. When the games started disappearing from the site, Zynga and that other company, people, little by little went over to boring 😴 old FB to play them their instead and it caused people to eventually build their profiles. And when more teen issues plagued MySpace, which led to criminal investigations, the site then went through that period towards its demise in user-ship. Had none of that happened 😕 MySpace would still be KING.
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I been hoping you would make something on MySpace
You explain clearly reason why I subscribed and turn on the notification
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We all let Tom down, he was the one friend that was for everybody. I miss MySpace
Tom>zYuck
Me too 👍🏾💯
It’s still a thing. It’s not as popular
@@VendettaProduction01 yea it's my music now but I still say we all let Tom down. He was a real guy who always gave us a thumbs up!
Mr. Anderson!
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!
My favorite was literally thousands of profile themes, I was only 10 at the time but dang that was my ish back then
MSN too
@@kleets1996 msn taught me how to be a fast typer! (I didn’t really use a computer much when I was at school )
@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 :)
yup MySpace was awesome
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.
@@Austinredstoner 🤯
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.
Facebook sucks.
People who weren't there in it's prime can't even understand how awesome myspace was. Spent my teenage years there. Because of the limitless ways to edit your profile exactly how you wanted, it was always interesting to visit other peoples profiles to see what they had created. Good times.
And you could have a song playing when someone went to your page. All you needed was the mp3 of the song you wanted to play!
@@christinecrawford MySpace like Windows XP, X-Play and Tapwave are the Relics of the 2000s. But Myspace was Awesome and so was XP.
I had The Boondock Saints wallpaper and the the theme song to go along with it back in middle school. Much simpler times, yet I was 5x as useful with a computer. I couldn't do that stuff now wily nilly
I miss MySpace
@@christinecrawfordright ? Like …welcome my friend 😊 lol I miss those days !!!
The first conversation I had with my wife was through Myspace in 2008. Been married since 2013, thank you Myspace
just about time to use Zoom for divorcing procedures
Same here! I first talked to my wife on MySpace in 2009!
@@TheDoomer666True to your name
I too found a wife on MySpace in 2006.
This was social media before the newsfeed. People were more inclined to communicate directly with each other rather than passively posting content for attention.
Pre-algorithm bliss.
I agree 100% 👍
Meh. Social media was always about attention. 14:05
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.
The entire internet became less fun when custom HTML was stopped to be honest.
I don’t understand. I’m constantly getting and approving requests from people I don’t know on Facebook.
@@trashyraccoon2615 Suggestions from FB are a totally different story🤣
Myspace died well before they removed custom html, they removed it and copied facebooks layout in a last dying attempt.
@@trashyraccoon2615 it starts to ask you how you know this person and stuff if you add a bunch of ppl you don't know
Classic MySpace was awesome. I wish there was still a social media site like it in today's times.
There is spacey hey but it’s just a knock off copy with barely anyone on it u can still customize stuff though but that’s it
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.
Remember jumping ship because off the low amount of people that was using it, the only decent app now is TH-cam 😂
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.
Facebook owns Instagram. Also twitter is better than Facebook and myspace.
I miss MySpace. I never liked Facebook and instagram is all influencers aka human commercials.
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.
Also myspace got me laid so there's that
@@badxradxandy 😂😂
MySpace is still around playa.
@@badxradxandy The golden age of the internet truly. This TikTok generation… saddens me
That’s what I liked about it… no parents or aunties on there lol
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!.
I never understood why everyone moved from MySpace. Just being able to pick a song for your page was way cooler than anything FB had to offer...
Not to mention no control freak moderators !
Agree 💯
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.
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.
Yes! I remember having Bebo and Tagged Lol
if only people knew how valuable social media would become..
If only people knew how toxic social media would become.
More like how destructive it is
*how toxic and authoritarian it would become
Myspace always made me feel like I was writing code it was great being able to customize everything
*”Back when Tila Tequila was at her peak!”*
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.
Thought I was the only one who felt this way 😂
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.
Yeah it's not the website's fault
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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.
Ahh. She was projecting into you. I hate to be the one to break it to you. But she was the one cheating on you. That's why she was so paranoid.
@@nickclark18 my thoughts exactly.
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 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.
Amazing content and editing! It’s so crazy to think how the world as we know could have been so different…
Myspace was the TNA wrestling of Social Media...😂
Good point
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 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.
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
Nah bro, we miss MySpace.
Uh ... not true. Don't put words in my mouth
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.
My wife asked me out on a date through Myspace. The rest is history.
That's pretty pathetic tbh.
What happened?
@@nickclark18 why? Please elaborate.
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.
Very similar to my story. Lol. MySpace was so much better.
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...
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
@xtrmst_01 but not like it was when I was a teen. Not even close.
MySpace is still alive, just not as popular as it once was.
its not BS, there are millions of people on it. Its mostly for people who are in music or comedy now.@xtrmst_012
We used to throw Official MySpace parties here in San Diego. Miss those days.
I've always disliked facebook. It caters to the most uncreative people and sleazy businesses. Even before it started selling our data, it was trash. I only keep a facebook page because of extended family. Myspace was great for self-expression. Facebook is for people who need to scream into the void.
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.
MySpace and blockbuster are parallel in this case:
Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix but declined blockbuster failed
MySpace had the opportunity to buy Facebook but declined, MySpace failed
I see what you’re saying but not really, Netflix offers so much more than blockbuster……while Facebook offers… nothing more than MySpace. Just copied MySpace, and got the push and blessings of the “powers that be” and so it was
Include Y! It declined Google and failed.
@@chrisr7235I know this is old, but in the beginning, Netflix was just a mail order physical rental company, not the streaming giant that they are today. They also ended up causing the end of blockbuster, so it is a great parallel
"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.
MySpace was much better than Facebook ever thought of being.
Just want to say that I enjoy your channel more than any other on TH-cam. Your voice, tone, story telling, presentation etc makes it such a pleasure to watch. The work and research you put into each video must be hours and hours. You make every topic interesting and highly entertaining. I am learning so much too. Well done on a brilliant and excellent channel.
Really? Then y not give him a tip- patreon etc
Hightly doubtful this is a person and not a whole team.
MySpace was still better in my opinion.
Knowing mark, he would have sold the company and start a new one with the exact same business called meta
Facebook is becoming more and more corporate just like MySpace when they were just acquired.
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.
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.
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
Tom selling for $580m in 2005 money always makes me feel good. Ride into the sunset and take them photos Tom
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.
I do think MySpace was a good internet era, Even when you didn't have a account.
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.
I'm really enjoying these new editions of the channel. Amazing content and editing! Congratulations to the editor!
True man true.
You be you!
Looks like Facebook is heading the way of MySpace
We can only hope
Pero que gran manera de narrar estás historias. Este canal es estupendo.
Agreed my friend! Agreed.
How dyu know that it is great when u don't understand English?
@@collinsa8909 En la barra de ajustes de TH-cam seleccionas el traductor y luego el idioma, en mi caso "español" .
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.....
@xtrmst_01 oh really, i havent been on there in years.......happy new year!!!!!
For those of us who were teenagers and very early 20's back when MySpace started, it was a whole new world. We loved it! Yet, some how, we let it get away from us and we followed another but eventual sad trend. We let Facebook take us and Facebook had their way with us. It turned out to not be a great trade at all.
Never got into any of them..
I was in high school when MySpace was at it’s peak and I despised it. It was one of the ugliest and cluttered websites I had ever seen.
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. 😂
For me, the ridiculousness was part of the fun. Even the worst design could actually be fun to interact with.
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.
Exactly!
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 🤘
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 ?
All the content you out out is so high quality and even when I don’t think I’m interested in the subject I’m always entertained by the actual video.
Of all the people in the world they think Murdoch is their saviour. Their fate was deserved.
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.
How different would the world be if MySpace did buy Facebook? I’m hoping Tom will take over as CEO of Twitter.
Haven't watched the whole vid yet but I'm pretty sure Tom ended up selling MySpace for a cool couple mil and sat back and lived off it.
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
Yes. This
I remember facebook been "lame" and had my first social account in myspace. But myspace truly dropped the ball on the interface issue, the rest is history
Simple the best! This content, edit and storyline is such incredible! Keep doing this John.
I would choose Tom’s life over Mark’s any day.
I dont know why facebook hasnt gone down the same path. I find myself not being able to stay on it for longer than 3 minutes and everyone else says the same. Its complete garbage now but its still around. Dunno why...
Teens did not own their own "phones" in Myspace days 6:07 This is the treachery of clip art. The channel is brilliant! Thank you!
What are you even talking about? Teens definitely owned their phones back then.
The hustlers did
I did. And yes, I hustled back in those days between Seattle and the Bay.
@@Pugetwitch interesting. what sort of phone? and: was having your own mobile remarked-upon at the time?
@@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.
We went from friendster, to myspace, to Facebook then scattered and the elderly joined Facebook
True
We need a video for Bebo
I make documentaries would you mind watching, and giving me feedback thanks.💯🎈
I always wondered what happened with Bebo
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
These videos are amazing essays
No matter what the topic is I watch it and am totally invested
Well done😊
Agreed 👍
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.
Turns out Samy actually was a hero. What if he didn't create his worm, the problem hadn't been found and a malicious user did it first instead?
Your channel is incredibly amazing! I search on YT and I see that you created a rich and detailed video about every topic that interests me! I'm now binge-watching your channel and I'm so grateful for your hard work and existing! God bless you my friend, and your audience ♥
Another very interesting video.
Your output paired with your production quality is unreal, blessed holodays (the typo stays!)
Very interesting! The editing made the video very dynamic, congratulations! ❤
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 ❤
just turned 28, so don’t really remember the myspace era... think i had one for like a year back in middle school, right as it was at the end of its lifespan, before switching to facebook. but all my older cousins who more clearly remember it say they preferred it to what we had as teens in the 2010’s (fb, insta, snap, vine)
Everything that has a beginning, has an end.
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.
Myspace did have games. IIl used to play this cool Rock band one lol
Well I hope everyone is happy cuz now we're stuck with Facebook and dreaming of the road that could have been....
Why is this so dramatic
MySpace was fun. Another similar, customizable social media sight could find a market in today's crowded, bland social media landscape. Should a company want to go that route. Just like the vid stated, Facebook didn't beat MySpace, MySpace beat itself and there just weren't better options available than Facebook. So, MySpace users simply migrated to FB. Today's servers and internet speeds could have 100 MySpaces worth of users at its peak and show no signs of lag, which was a pretty significant factor in users leaving for the no-lag FB. The ads that plagued MS in the Fox years would be no more. Idk, is MS down to about $50? I'd buy it.
magnates media the documentary you provide and the quality in it is simply amazing.
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?
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…
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 loved MySpace, 2004-10. I hate Facebook! Deleted F.B. 2018.
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
What is your Myspace URL?
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
With Facebook being a reoccurring mention in your social media videos makes me want to see a history of Facebook
Thanks for this amazing content!
It really is like revisiting a part of our childhood, please do one on orkut too. Cheers from India
What is orkut? So unknown that my Autocorrect kept changing it. 😅
@@abbyabroad Social networking website. It was big in India and Brazil.
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.
Young people “Mywhat?”
I will love to someone to create a social media just like MySpace the way it used to be like customizing the home page 🥰
Do it!
I never understood why people moved to Facebook and I’m still mad about. MySpace was far superior in every way and was so much better to customize everything, why did people ever leave? Facebook was like going back in time. The only reason I even created a Facebook was because everyone had left MySpace for it. I never wanted to leave MySpace.
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.
Well written comment, and I agree with 100% of what is written in the comment. MagnatesMedia really knows how to organize and edit well.
I still miss the old TH-cam 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.
*”MySpace was the golden age of the Internet and social media before censorship!”*
If you believe that, than you're probably part of the people who should be censored
@@joao3547 "people who should be censored" you're a ridiculous person.
@@joao3547 100 percent agree.
@@adah4446 really? Silencing people is your go-to? How fascist of you two.
@@alwaysastray Your using TH-cam. Your supporting a company with so much censorship. How fascist of you
Do you see why the logic does not connect
In the segments going towards the end That's not what happened 😕 The site was still enjoyable to people, even with the individual page customizations. When the games started disappearing from the site, Zynga and that other company, people, little by little went over to boring 😴 old FB to play them their instead and it caused people to eventually build their profiles. And when more teen issues plagued MySpace, which led to criminal investigations, the site then went through that period towards its demise in user-ship. Had none of that happened 😕 MySpace would still be KING.