I think this will be the final nail in the coffin for MySpace. They don't listen, they don't know what customers want, they don't care, and they won't budge.
I predict Facebook will see a similar demise. The nature of social networks is that they are transient. Are newsgroups dead? Forums? No. They've been going strong since the inception of the internet, because they cultivate a strong culture -- something every community needs to survive. Social networks don't do that. They're a pile of random, somewhat primitive thoughts that don't engage and have no net culture. Discussion is very pared-back and smalltalk-like at best.
In some ways, it seems that we're going back to the early 2000s. Proprietary IM protocols like Skype and iMessage are being adopted at a greater scale, and social networks are slowly fading out. We can return to an age where inter-personal communication becomes the main method of communication, and social networks will be but an ancient relic of a primordial past.
I know, I know -- this is a tangent, but it's relevant.
Deleting peoples content that they've built up over a decade _without warning_ is a really terrible thing to do, although yes it's a new company with a new product, they should have at least shown some goodwill towards the previous users. Photographs, comments, messages, blogs, these are things that mean a lot to a wide variety of people, if they must delete them then so be it but doing it without notice and without providing downloadable archives is just beyond unreasonable, it's completely disrespectful.
For anyone curious, there is no further response from Myspace in the linked topic, the response marking the issue resolved is the only message, the 19 pages are just angry and upset (ex)users. Hopefully they haven't actually deleted the data and are frantically setting up an export process.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadI predict Facebook will see a similar demise. The nature of social networks is that they are transient. Are newsgroups dead? Forums? No. They've been going strong since the inception of the internet, because they cultivate a strong culture -- something every community needs to survive. Social networks don't do that. They're a pile of random, somewhat primitive thoughts that don't engage and have no net culture. Discussion is very pared-back and smalltalk-like at best.
In some ways, it seems that we're going back to the early 2000s. Proprietary IM protocols like Skype and iMessage are being adopted at a greater scale, and social networks are slowly fading out. We can return to an age where inter-personal communication becomes the main method of communication, and social networks will be but an ancient relic of a primordial past.
I know, I know -- this is a tangent, but it's relevant.
For anyone curious, there is no further response from Myspace in the linked topic, the response marking the issue resolved is the only message, the 19 pages are just angry and upset (ex)users. Hopefully they haven't actually deleted the data and are frantically setting up an export process.