MySpace: Nostalgic memories of what was once - ZDNet (blog)

MySpace, or everything that you want to call, or however you want to write, was around to apparently since the dawn of the web itself.

For younger users, while Myspace may be a relic of the cold war technology after the dotcom boom, which has never really, we knew or understood, other social networks have taken space in the basement of the music-centric site.

And with Napster, now a paid for service as opposed to an illegal - although it sounded like a great idea at the time, with the network peer to peer sharing of wishing to obtain the new pop files beats the end of the 1990s.

Memories are crazy, but the idea that Myspace is still, even here on the web even ten years into the twenty-first century, is also a baffle for not only myself, but for many others.

Truth, while Myspace as a name and a brand resonates again the bells of the past in our minds never technologically fluent nostaligic, it is just that. A mark of the past, causing the future bands; If you will excuse the play on words.

Like MSN Hotmail back in the day, it offers a sense of nostalgia for the younger generation, now in their late teens and early, mid-twenties or so. But unlike Hotmail which evolved into the new suite of products, Windows Live successfully with competition with rivals and to new levels, Myspace is not.

MySpace, however, has evolved into a less - than the service, the promotion of music and cinema instead of social break-up, we want today on the web. But the user base figures show an evolution as such; more than a genetic anomaly transmitted clone clone in a loathsome display of Darwinism gone mad.

While Facebook figures jumped by more than 40 million dollars at the same time that Myspace lost $ 30 million, she knew that sister in the social networking world had the advantage of better. It was the favorite of parents; In other words, if you count each and every generation y as such.

There is no doubt that Myspace is still a huge repository for music, upcoming or otherwise. But, in addition, it has fortunately inclined game of generation y by ceasing to continue with the activity of update-like broad social media that propelled to fame first place.

For most, it serves as a memory for past and a function of authentication open for the future, allowing users to sign under their user name dotsyhotsy15 created in 2000, in a different world of peace, harmony and only the threat of homegrown terrorism to worry.

MySpace is dead, in and of itself. It may be hemorrhaging users such as dying on a gurney hospital left to bleed. But it serves as a testament to life to what was ' back in the day': a time of innocence on the web and only the occasional sex offender friending you curiosity of your profile overtly teen image.

Zack Whittaker is a British student for a diploma of undergraduate BA (Hons) Criminology and social policy of the University of Kent, Canterbury.