Social Media

Queen Boo · 02-18-2022, 02:51 AM

MySpace was actually cool though, sure it was full of cringy emo teens and busy overdesigned customized pages that were complete eyesores and took 30 minutes to load but dammit that gave it character, vastly superior to the conspiracy theory pushing, hate filled boomer hellscape that is Facebook.

Plankton · 02-18-2022, 04:44 AM

I used PimpMySpace to customize my page. It still looked like Homer Simpson designed it but it was kinda neat.

Also, Bat having this for an av was hilarious:

jadis · 02-18-2022, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor

give it another five years and all of the major social media platforms will be like MySpace

Isn't FB functioning like actual infrastructure for millions of people in America these days? As in this is where people buy and sell stuff, find employment etc. Myspace could never embed itself into society to this (or any, tbh) degree

Mindfulness · 02-18-2022, 03:17 PM

I made hip-hop beats on myspace, at that time I ran two hip-hop websites/forums and they were exactly like musicbanter. My beats got to the number one spot in the independent label section. I would fluctuate from number 1 to number 20 and just basically got viral listens. I got credit for the beats in a music course in high school, but it was like a huge deal when I dropped a new beat, wow I am so lame now

Thinking about social media now, once everyone went to Facebook around 2004-2008 ish, there weren't ways to connect old friends from myspace to Facebook. Plus YouTube becoming popular, sharing on facebook's "wall" became more popular than sharing on a myspace 'wall' lol

The only thing Facebook has going for it is the connection of people who don't want to start a Twitter, plus its Facebook Marketplace. The Marketplace is top level!

FETCHER. · 02-18-2022, 03:26 PM

I stopped using Facebook about a year ago. All I did was bitch and moan about things I seen on Facebook

I use Instagram and Snapchat but I use them far too often for my liking. I point blank refuse to get TikTok because I lose enough time to the other 2.

Edit: and from what I can tell TikTok is like crack.

**Frownland** · 02-18-2022, 03:50 PM

Phone bad.

FETCHER. · 02-19-2022, 03:04 PM

Amen

The Batlord · 02-19-2022, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

social media platforms are private companies that people give too much importance to

kinda like FIFA or the NFL, in how they get treated as essential cultural institutions

they're just businesses

Mind blown. Will never think the same.

**Frownland** · 02-19-2022, 05:33 PM

Social media is the dragon of chaos.

SGR · 02-19-2022, 05:39 PM

02-18-2022, 04:44 AM	#22 (permalink)
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Mindfulness Be aware of the psyop Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Milky Way Galaxy Posts: 9,999	I made hip-hop beats on myspace, at that time I ran two hip-hop websites/forums and they were exactly like musicbanter. My beats got to the number one spot in the independent label section. I would fluctuate from number 1 to number 20 and just basically got viral listens. I got credit for the beats in a music course in high school, but it was like a huge deal when I dropped a new beat, wow I am so lame now Thinking about social media now, once everyone went to Facebook around 2004-2008 ish, there weren't ways to connect old friends from myspace to Facebook. Plus YouTube becoming popular, sharing on facebook's "wall" became more popular than sharing on a myspace 'wall' lol The only thing Facebook has going for it is the connection of people who don't want to start a Twitter, plus its Facebook Marketplace. The Marketplace is top level! __________________ YouTube Videos The Discord Server February 28th, 2024 Last edited by Mindfulness; 02-22-2022 at 01:56 PM.

02-18-2022, 03:50 PM	#26 (permalink)
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02-19-2022, 05:33 PM	#29 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Social media is the dragon of chaos. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-19-2022, 05:39 PM	#30 (permalink)
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