I have always hated MySpace. The website design reminds me of brash junk mail and gives me a headache when I try to figure out just what resources it offers.
When it started out in 2003, it at least provided a world wide window for unsigned or struggling bands but now this service is much better catered for by sites like Soundcloud and Bandcamp.
If you want another outlet or to see how many people are listening to your music there’s also Last.Fm.
As far as social networking goes, it may have been the most popular site in June 2006 but nowadays they haven’t a hope in hell of competing with the Facebook juggernaut.
A takeover by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporations in 2005 and more recent attempts at an ‘awesome’ makeover don’t convince me that the site is anything more a sinking ship. Since 2008, user growth has stagnated. They have laid off 30% of its workforce and in April 2009 they made the drastic move of replacing longtime CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe with Owen Van Natta. He would have to be a Steve Jobs-like genius to pull things around.
Seven years is a lifetime on the Internet and MySpace is a website which has been unable to adapt to survive in the face of changing tastes and challenges. Start writing the obituaries now.
