Myspace: I Hardly Knew Ye

Today, I officially closed my Myspace account. I’m sure you probably weren’t aware I even had a profile, as I was only friends with about 50 people there. I hadn’t logged in since February, and since everyone I was friends with on Myspace was already my friend on Facebook, I figured I wouldn’t be missing anything.

In the big social networking war, I was never drawn to Myspace. I started with Facebook back when it was only for college students, as it seemed a more natural fit. Myspace always seemed like a second-rate site, as it looked clunky and running on a single server in Tom’s basement. The only reason I joined was so my ex and I could be friends while we were still dating, and I kept it going because it was Tracy’s profile of choice until recently. Now Tracy is more into Facebook than me, and we both decided to close our Myspace accounts this weekend.

Now that Facebook is open to the world, I don’t see Myspace continuing to be a big player in the social networking arena much longer. I never liked the interface and found it hard to perform the most basic tasks. You always heard about passwords being stolen and profiles being hacked, and I had countless server timeouts and crashes that it’s a wonder people stuck with it for so long.