its been a few hours since I made this post, and I was thinking… and yeah, myspace represents an era, of pre-enshitified internet, and thats really why people remember it fondly. They remember the good times, not just with myspace, but all around it, when the internet was still interesting and not corporatified.
Just like how I remember AOL fondly, not because it was a good thing (cause it certainly fuckin wasnt), but because it was my portal to an era of the internet. Chatrooms, and webrings, and guest books, and page hit counters, and late nights talking about interesting shit with people from the other side of the world, before search google, before advertising, before enshitification.
AOL wasnt a good thing, Its the window, the memory focus, the prism, which I look through to remember all the good things around it.
Thats because the era MySpace was created in, and died in.
If myspace was created 10 years later, it’d be the same festering cesspit that facebook was.
There was nothing special about myspace other than the time it was created, before enshitification had really hit the internet.
its been a few hours since I made this post, and I was thinking… and yeah, myspace represents an era, of pre-enshitified internet, and thats really why people remember it fondly. They remember the good times, not just with myspace, but all around it, when the internet was still interesting and not corporatified.
Just like how I remember AOL fondly, not because it was a good thing (cause it certainly fuckin wasnt), but because it was my portal to an era of the internet. Chatrooms, and webrings, and guest books, and page hit counters, and late nights talking about interesting shit with people from the other side of the world, before search google, before advertising, before enshitification.
AOL wasnt a good thing, Its the window, the memory focus, the prism, which I look through to remember all the good things around it.