I miss MySpace. Like I can really feel nostalgic sometimes that it is no longer the same as it was when I was a teenager. I think it was one of the things that helped me find who I was and express my creativity. I’m not really sure why they have taken away the personalisation element to it (surely it’s just like Facebook now?), or why people ventured away from it.

I think people who liked using MySpace were really the future bloggers, as blogging provides some customisation. Though not quite to the extent of premade questionnaires that a lot of us liked completing, the personal information or the gadgets (I had a cute character). It was nosey but I enjoyed looking on a guy’s profile to see if they considered having children; the main answer I saw was ‘someday’. Then there was the music and the profile picture and the top friends, these are things that are missing from a blog but I wouldn’t say it would be good to add them because it’s just not a blog thing to do if that makes sense. I guess you still have the background, profile picture and content to customise in a blog. To get round the other things I mentioned, you could describe and add a link to your current favourite music, you could write a post answering questions to a questionnaire. You can still make friends and comment on another’s blog. Unless your closest friends have a blog, you can’t list them as your favourite people on blogs you follow. Basically it’s not quite a personalised page of who you are and what you like in summary.

Maybe for some of us, it would have been nice to keep the profile the same as a memoir of the teenage years. Except they have removed the majority of the content for some reason.. I did a little research online and saw someone post moaning that there wasn’t even a warning of the action to remove the content. If that was indeed the case, I agree with them and think that it was unfair (my account is registered to an email account I don’t use anymore, and so I don’t see its inbox anymore).
I wonder if they have saved all the settings and can reinstate them in the future?

Happy Spring!

x Amy x