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Anyone know what happened to MySpace? It looks like it's been miniaturized! Are they slowly shutting it down?

I dunno
It looks like they are changing to a more facebook look.

I don't go there much any more

I dunno
It looks like they are changing to a more facebook look.

I don't go there much any more

Everyone's going to Facebook...easier to connect, easier to use, much more intimate, just a better networking site!

Well, I'm all for intimate, though I prefer to do it in person as opposed to a social networking site. MySpace is currently "upgrading" their site, and it doesn't appear to me to be an improvement. What irritate me is that I've spent two years "making friends" (all musicians) on that site, and to go to FaceBook -- well, it's like that Star Trek episode -- Resistance is futile!!! You WILL be assimilated!!!
Should have got a clue when my daughter dumped MySpace for FaceBook.
Ott

It's been over for MySpace for a long time. I wrote a scathing editorial predicting it's failure long before Facebook came on strong. It became such a cesspool of nasty ads and a graphical pukefest and then when they stomped on the one thing they had going for them, the musicians community which spurred all it's growth, I said it would fail. It's been dying a long slow death ever since and unless something serious is done, it will be but a footnote in net lore. By the way, JPF was a social and musical networking since since we launched (we even had it in our main description header "Musician and Songwriter Networking Community" going back to 1997. The little guys never get credit for helping move stuff forward. (By the way, we were also the first entity I am aware of that used "Music that moves you" as a catchphrase/buzzword and spoke of something having to "move" us regularly. First the Grammy's co-opted the concept years after we'd had many of their board involved in our awards (and even at our show) and now you can't watch any creative show on TV where it's not a passionate description of the proceedings and liberally used throughout some of them. I should have trademarked it like the Facebook guy is trying to trademark (so I've heard, not sure if it's fact) the word "Face." I remember using the word "Facetime" when describing our Roadtrips where we meet face to face with our members and how important that is to an online site with any type of membership. Maybe he took that as well! hahahhaha.

Facebook is much like Google in that they learned that "less" is more. It's one of the reasons I have never had a banner ad program or flashing graphics all over our site. To quote a song written by Bonnie Warren, a JPF member from Philly, "Simple is Best!" (I credit folks who give me ideas! ; )

PS: "We're All In This Together" is a phrase I have been using with JPF since 1985. I always cringe when I see that used all over, especially since we came online. The net is nothing if not a way for people to rip off good ideas faster than ever before! = ) At least we WERE able to trademark the phrase "Just Plain Folks" which is ironically one that had been used for centuries but apparently was considered too unhip for anyone to ever want to trademark it. So if you see anyone using it, especially in a creative or networking sense, please let me know!

Brian

I closed my account at MySpace on December 1st.
They were so busy fixing what wasn't broken that they completely ruined the place. Now I'm on Facebook, and I use ReverbNation to host music.

I've been away from it a long time but haven't closed my page yet. It's dying a slow death - it was dying when I started my page. Now they're hoping to overhaul but they've made it even more confusing and non-friendly to use than it already was.

Ditto to Facebook and ReverbNation. They're both great and they work with each other.

If you're not on Facebook, you WILL be left out of the loop.
We are hearing it as a household word at this point; it's showing up in commercials, movies, TV, dialogue, everywhere, and as "big" as MySpace was for a while, THAT did not quite happen.
Not to this level.
It will keep picking up.

It may even become Big Brother. ROFL


Good thoughts, Brian.

Linda

Agree w/ Brian on all the flashy junk & the slimy feel of it all. It had been so long since I looked at my own MySpace page. I had no idea of the changes until checking in here. I only keep my MySpace page because I need every link out there I can get. Shutting down still seems to be counterproductive at this juncture. It would be like taking down a billboard on Route 40, just because more people are driving on I-70. I'm going to keep the billboard both places. Just focus more attention on the one getting the most traffic, Facebook. Ultimately, I prefer it all to point the residual traffic to my official site at JavaMusiK.
Merry Christmas!
Jeff

This is off-topic but I had to chime in. I work about 150 yards from the intersection of US-40 and I-70 in Richmond, IN.

And now back to our regularly scheduled topic.

I still think graphically and lay out wise it's much cooler than Facebook. I just never could understand why somebody would set up a My Space page with a layout that was like trying to read tiny typed white words under a GIANT striped green/blue/yellow and orange picnic table cloth lol Gross layouts...

Then they would blast so mush crap on there it took an hour to drag down the page to leave a comment.

However the options for look, color and graphics is far cooler than Facebook IMO. Facebook is like a graduation yearbook effective but a little dull.

One day it will suffer the same fate as My Space probably, which made it all the way to the SuperBowl that year, then?

I think you're right Sub. Facebook has some great features and is really big right now, but so was MySpace a few years back. And while it seems to be imbedding itself into our culture right now, our culture has a very short memory. I see 'fad' written all over it. Pet Rock anyone??

I still like myspace more. And just the fact we're all talking about it, good or bad, means no one has forgotten it.
I can listen to music right there on their site, instead of linking like facebook. Facebook has changed their homepage a few times since I've been there. Used to be a place to log-out, now you have to go under account, then log-out for example.
It seems like everywhere is adding more clicks. And if I gotta click and tech is supposed to be about 'all-in-one', myspace is still the spot.
I can post my songs, have friends that are just bands, have a personal page and band page, post everything that goes with my songs like lyrics and whatnot. Listen to music while I post or just chat.
Yeah, they're changing format...but so is everywhere else constantly. It's like road work in PA.

Facebook is simple for sure.. just like Google... does anyone really use BING or Yahoo to search anymore?

My cell phone has voice google search which is awesome.. I can say someone's name and photo and get instant photos up or audio or whatever... that's basically NO interface for google, yet it's still google. The less busy something is the better it seems. Xbox now has controllerless controls.. less is more...

As for not forgetting it.. there's a lot of crap people haven't and will never forget. The Pinto anyone? Or how about Pets.com and the sock puppet? Didn't they loose 100's of millions on that site?

Brian

Brian

OPEN LETTER TO MYSPACE:

Hey MySpace,

What's up with all the pop-up ads? Pop-ups are a big no-no; learn from YouTube and Google. Everybody hates pop-ups and right now, the ones on MySpace are killing the listening experience for fans.

I know for a fact that A&R execs and music publishers HATE getting links to listen to songs on MySpace because of the pop-up ads. I WANT to use MySpace as my homebase but I can't because your weird new set-up is hurting my chances to getting my music heard.

So right now, when submitting a song for a potential placement, I defo CANNOT use MySpace. I have to use something that looks more professional, like SoundCloud. Even using YouTube to submit songs would be better than using MySpace at this point.

I love MySpace but you guys seriously gotta up your game. PLEASE get rid of the pop-up ads ASAP--it really cheapens the whole experience for listeners AND reflects badly on the artists.

R1NGG1T