Ghosts Of MYSPACE Past

My first 'social media' experience was on the site MYSPACE. As an artist, I loved MYSPACE (plus I knew a little HTML, which was important to have a good looking page there)

MYSPACE seemed like an actual 'place'. You could literally 'escape' into the world of MYSPACE and get lost looking at everyone's unique perspective. I marveled at the cleverness in other people's page construction. Some people could do such unique things with codes!

For artists though, we were the orphans. There were areas for Music, Film, Comedy, but no separate tabs for Artists - even though there were tens of thousands of us worldwide the site.

My page there was heavily international. I had almost no local friends. I actually sold a painting through MySpace to a band in Finland.

But, unfortunately, I don't hardly ever go to my MYSPACE page anymore. They have stripped the pages of a lot of the unique code that decorated the pages. Which would be fine if it meant keeping the pages loading faster.

However, MYSPACE sold out a while back - blasting all that visitors with overdone trailers for corporate movies. Apparently they wanted the memory on the site to go to SPAMMING over designing.

I understand they want to make a buck, but I can't even load my page or anyone else's I want to look at anymore because the 'spam' clogs my computer.
It's pointless.
Some people, especially bands, will still use MYSPACE as a way to put themselves on the internet. But I think they are just shouting down an empty hallway.

MYSPACE was recently purchased by some new people, one including Justin Timberlake.
The site last sold for over 800 million dollars, but the new owners picked it up for a mere 35 million (so when I say it's lost it's value, I guess the proof is in the pricetag)

Many were excited to hear it had been bought and sold again and that someone well known was involved, but I was a bit disturbed to visit and see that they were talking about using MYSPACE to follow celebrities. My blood ran a bit cold. Were they actually going to use the carcass of MYSPACE for yet another altar to worship the like of Kardashians?

Oh please, say it isn't so and return the paradise of MYSPACE to me!

(I'm counting on you Justin!)