Myspace died.

[NorthernChaosGod]

How did Facebook manage to take over anyway?

I remember when everyone and their mother had a Myspace.

Because Myspace was smurfing awful. Facebook originally offered a clean look without customization. >:[

[Dreddz]

Myspace was rubbish to begin with. The interface was so cluttered. I never had any interest in having one, even when my friends were using it. It did has one feature that Facebook doesn't which was that you could have a music player on your page which was neat.

Facebook dominating Myspace was obvious the moment you looked at how clean and accessible the interface was.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah. The customization thing was awesome, but everyone abused it.

[champagne supernova]

How did Facebook manage to take over anyway?

I remember when everyone and their mother had a Myspace.

I miss the ease of phishing login info and the pages with ten million animated .gifs, and a song and three videos that would play when you went to certain people's profiles. I remember one of my friends had a profile that would actually crash my computer because so much crap would play.

Those were the days.

I think you answered your own question.

[crashNUMBERS]

funny, everyone around here didnt give facebook any acknowledgment at first cause it was too boring

[NorthernChaosGod]

funny, everyone around here didnt give facebook any acknowledgment at first cause it was too boring

CHILDREN, the lot of them.

[G13]

It's like an old friend has died.

Or maybe acquaintance.

Now that I think about it, I hated that guy. :cuch:

[Jessweeee♪]

Well the thing about social networking sites is that you don't go wherever you like best, you go where the people you want to keep in contact with are. It completely defeats the purpose of having an account on one when nobody is on there. This is why I switched to facebook, and it's why if this google+ thing takes off I'll switch to that even though I'm uncomfortable with the idea after the Google Buzz incident.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

The customization was brutal. At first it was cool to be able to slap a background image up or matrix up the place with green text, but it seemed like it only took a month before everything sparkled and had animation loops. Lets be serious too, you can't tell me i'm the only one that raged whenever the music player autostarted the same horrible song, and it took ten minutes to find the stop button cleverly hidden behind twelve butterfly gifs.

[Jessweeee♪]

Well you could change your settings to stop other people's myspace players from going off automatically, but if they had another flash player, then you were in trouble.