Myspace

I have always had a Myspace back in 2004 I jumped on the bandwagon. I had some wonderful findings locating friends and family that I had lost through out the years. I had some up and down moments in my life. I met the girl of my dreams there. All on a random question of "what is the craziest thing you've ever done" and that got us going. later after a few years we split and that is an even longer story than any I have ever told.

Myspace was at the front of social networking and they knew it. They were surpassing everyone left and right giving ability to add html code to their profiles to customize it and design how they wanted.

The slow downfall started to turn after News Corp bought the company for $580 million and decided to take Myspace in a new direction. I would have to say that the constant redesign of Myspace and no longer having the ability to make a profile your own made users leave due to the complex application that Myspace came up with.

I still use their services today and that is not even for family and friends anymore as in 2004 I was big in updating peoples lives and socializing and one an app came out called Mobsters.

Now I played this app filled with people all over the world and when I first got on the app I had said "this is some click button bull ish" I had to censor that in my own way and I stopped playing the app. I then later realized my friends had caught on and were playing. I decided to give it another shot.

The thing I learned the most about the game was how social it was it had it's own world inside of Myspace. One thing about the app though is you could not get ahead or be a good player with out multiple Myspace pages to have more than one account.

These accounts turned out to be like gold and people were buying and selling pages because they wanted to be the head of the game. It is a life understanding to try and be the best at something.

I think that is why I liked it so much it gave a mafia feel and where else could you go but an app to kill someone after you got off work. This is what is leading to Myspaces malfunctions for users.

Myspace was sold again by News Corp after they lost users and revenue. They sold the company to Specific Media for $35 million. Now in Specific Medias take over they wanted to make Myspace easier and get it back to the music.

They decided to set protocols for security and to stop spammers. It was all fine and good, because who wanted spam on a social platform. Well on that note it caused a mass deletion of users Myspace pages.

Think about this you are an app user and you made thousands of profiles to play one app to stay ahead of the game and one day poof all your work is gone. That is the epidemic that users are dealing with today. Playdom who hosts the game on Myspace does not know what to do and often look foolish trying to help where they can not.

Myspace can reinstate an profile at their liking at anytime but won't because I am not sure the 200 employees now know exactly how to do that. I myself have been a Myspace users and app player for 3+ years and had 86 of my own Myspace profiles for app gaming deleted by Myspace stating they violated their terms of service.

When did using more than own profile constitute a violation. They can not even figure out their own random deletions.

I still play the app Mobster on Myspace and I still like using Myspace and making new accounts daily to make up for what I lost. I think Myspace has to understand a players stand point and understanding. You own a social platform and you host apps, so you should know the people and the culture.

Playdom has done some things like state they will make a saved game tool to transfer your game to another Myspace, but they are slowly turning users away from the game they love due to hackers and programmers messing with the app itself. Everyone likes to get ahead but they really have to cheat to get there.

One day the world will realize as people we do the things that make us happy and playing apps and social networking makes us the happiest. bring back our profiles and bring back our games.

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