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Myspace .. Reloaded?

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baethoven
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If its a repost, I'm sorry. I searched "myspace" and found nothing on this. It also listed older threads before newer threads? If someone cares to explain that, that'd be cool.

Interesting idea, won't be making my own personal account because I really don't need another social media platform. The only reason it interests me is because I'll most likely have to make one for my music blog to keep up with the competition (which sucks imo).

Thoughts?

The new Myspace from Myspace on Vimeo.


Sep 25 2012 11:30PM
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status_whitegirl
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after that video, this is how I picture every user

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Sep 25 2012 11:43PM
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Aidan-G
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Saw this earlier today. I'm on the fence about making an account. It looks pretty clean. We'll see how many people use it when it's released
Sep 25 2012 11:45PM
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turducken
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lets hope bebo doesn't try and make a comeback as well.
Sep 25 2012 11:46PM
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theabortionator
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I liked myspace back in the day. They didn't have to try and make it all facebooky.

Also one of the only reasons I used to be able to do a lot of coding. Started with fucking around and building my myspace profile. Facebook sucked in comparison I thought. Don't know how it blew up. In 05 it was pretty much like wow, facebook is gay, and we just stayed on myspace. Nobody had a fucking facebook anyway. Well college kids, that was about it.

Also the groups on myspace were legit. Used to be in a really cool surfing group on there. Actually met a couple of the guys from there while I was staying in california around 04 ish. They showed me where the good spots were that weren't too over crowded.


Idk, I just liked the vibe of myspace.
Sep 25 2012 11:47PM
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lands11
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lol I saw a connect with Facebook button at the beginning there.
Sep 25 2012 11:48PM
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cubber
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Not sure if gusta... Im not on social media sites enough to warrant an account. Ns, on the other hand, if its a social media site then I have an erectile problem
Sep 25 2012 11:50PM
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baethoven
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I agree with the whole customization argument. It's the main reason I really liked Myspace at first. Each person had a different flavor of profile.Then all those shitty applications (which have ruined FB) started showing up.

You're also right about it teaching just about everybody the basic skills to editing a website with codes. The better you were at it, the better your shit looked imo. I still use some of those skills I learned today with my Wordpress.
Sep 26 2012 12:04AM
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Phil-X-
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I actually really like it. Its exactly what I would want in a social network, ive been waiting for something like this. You can share music and artists really well and stream as good as a standalone music site like pandora, share photos as easy as instagram and cleaner then facebook, interact socially like facebook, twitter AND google+. I really like the idea of sharing content too, kinda reminds me of a social pintrest. I hope it works.
Sep 26 2012 12:11AM
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RICK_ROSS
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thats pretty much the point....
Sep 26 2012 2:20AM
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grown-ninja
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Only reason i made a Facebook was in early 05/ maybe 06' to see kids who were going to my college/perspective colleges
Sep 26 2012 9:22AM
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theBearJew
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Looks like they combined some of facebook and pinterest.. And some other shit that they made up.
Sep 26 2012 9:26AM
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bangarangmules
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Thinking about making an account so I can be cool and underground and stuff.
Sep 26 2012 9:35AM
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baethoven
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I feel you on being able to stream and share music easily. Unlike facebook where you have to install some shitty application which just spams everyones walls anyways.
Sep 26 2012 6:17PM
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GayWolf420
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Do they have new features like adding people to your list of people you want to abduct?
Sep 26 2012 6:19PM
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bangarangmules
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Do you live under a rock? They added that feature back in 09.
Sep 26 2012 9:02PM
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mmallender.
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ill probably sign up and give it a look... who knows, maybe itll make a come back?
Sep 26 2012 9:22PM
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Aidan-G
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I hope it does. This looks way better than Facebook
Sep 26 2012 9:23PM
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mmallender.
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agreed. i love the graphic design they showed in the video, hopefully it stays the same.

the one problem with myspace was the fact that you could freely edit your html coding on your page, while some could do it tastefully, others made their profiles look like a clusterfuck of epilepsy and garbage. if the new myspace can find a midground between customization of pages like the old myspace through colors/layouts, possibly similarly to tumblr, and the consistency and simplicity that facebook has, i think it will be successful.
Sep 26 2012 9:38PM
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Phil-X-
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I hope it lasts longer then google+ did haha
Sep 27 2012 10:52AM
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Errl
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it seems very promising indeed.
Sep 27 2012 10:56AM
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Ehh...
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Well how i'm seeing this new myspace is how i see how it went down with the facebook takeover

Myspace was cool hip but had a lot of junk on it as well.

Facebook came out provided a cleaner userface and was easy to get started and work through. It gained popularity so the switch happened.

Google + happened but no one wanted to waste the effor to having to switch all that information to new system where none of their friends were on.

Now this new myspace is allow people to have a much much much cleaner format than that of the current facebook. Its very sleek, and clean looking. I don't know how user friendly it is as i haven't made an account myself.

However, the only way the new myspace is going to take off is if they make it super easy to connect with, and allow all your friends from facebook to come over to myspace. With allowing the connect to facebook button they are making that step even easier.

It has great potential but it all relies on the people of facebook to have to have a need to switch. If that isn't created then there isn't a point to have to spend that effort for it.
Sep 27 2012 11:02AM
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gurneykid
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facebook slowly went from my most used social site to my very least used. Something needs to come in and replace it and this shows potencial. the only plus to facebook, literally everyone has one. so this would have to get out there as much as that.
Sep 27 2012 2:48PM
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gurneykid
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truth lol
Sep 27 2012 2:50PM
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deleted5
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i like fb because everyone is on it, myspace needs to get the fuck out.
Sep 27 2012 2:56PM
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Laurent.
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YES!!

Yet another way to share my over edited Instagram shots of my coffee, lunches and vintage cameras.
Sep 27 2012 3:00PM
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Phil-X-
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Yea because FB always had everyone on it since the point of its creation..
Sep 27 2012 3:01PM
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