What was Myspace like
As a kid born in 2004, I was not able to experience myspace at its peak. So, to those of you who used it, what was it like and what do you miss about it.
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As a kid born in 2004, I was not able to experience myspace at its peak. So, to those of you who used it, what was it like and what do you miss about it.
I'm turning 30 in 2 weeks. I was addicted to it on high school. If you knew a bit of CSS you were pretty badass. You could go to special websites to copy markup for styles and themes.
Friends were in your 'spaces'. Everything was 'emo' back then. You listed bands that you liked and everybody quoted bands and took cringe mirror selfies. It was usually used while live chatting on AIM.
Comic sans, marquees. The feel of it was like... If you play your cards right you might be considered cool and your crush might potentially fall in love with you. Lots of flirting.
It's exactly the stereotype of that era. The most 2000s internet environment stereotypes exactly as they're depicted in TV.
You know that subreddit like /r/im14andimdeep (I think it's called), that's MySpace.
God the memories! We are around the same age give or take a couple of monthes so I fully relate to your Myspace experience! God forbid you took someone out of your top friends aswell, Jesus. Also don't forget giving your girlfriend you've had for 2 weeks her own section on your page with alot of 'xoxo' 'rawr' 'xD' 😂
Oh God. Giant obnoxious glitter text. Really bad clip art. Auto-play music on the front page so everyone knew what edgy music you liked haha.
Memories....
Your "top friends" were on your profile and changing the order of them could really create a fight within your clique.
You could decorate your profile with whatever terrible CSS you could find online.
Music would start playing from the users playlist almost every time you visited a profile.
Every high school band had a MySpace page.
this sounds so cool, like so everyone's profile looked different...
I don't think I miss anything about it. It was just a different time on the internet. I also remember when I enjoyed Facebook, and that is not how I would describe the experience now.
http://www.famefoundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Bad-MySpace-Design-620.jpg
I miss... nothing about it.
I am nostalgic about how insane everything looked in the earlier days of the internet.