October 27, 2010

Myspace is unveiling a major redesign today, repositioning itself as a “social entertainment destination” more than a social networking site.

In addition to a new logo, they also dropped the CamelCap, so you know they mean business. The new Myspace is focused more strictly on pop culture, and according to Myspace’s press releases, “aimed at a Gen Y audience.”

The revamped site, which is still in beta (because of course it is) includes more real-time info (a la Twitter), aggregated content from around the web, and more robust discovery tools for users.

Myspace is pretty much the social networking — I’m sorry, social entertainment — punching bag these days, but it still brought in about $347 million in ad sales this year, according to the AP. The site still reaches 95 million global visitors a month, including 43 million in the United States. That’s paltry compared to Facebook — whose numbers are closer to $1.3 billion in ad sales — but it’s still a lot, even if those numbers represent a major decline since the site’s heyday a few years ago.

I signed into Myspace today for the first time in three years, and while the redesign actually is attractive and handy, I can’t imagine getting back into the site — and I think that’s true of a lot of us “Gen Y” users (barf). Myspace’s strategy, then, is about enticing new users, and repositioning itself as something to use in addition to, not instead of, Facebook. But reviving online brands isn’t easy: Just ask Aol and Yahoo!, both shadows of their former selves.

Myspace could be passing out free coffee and back-scratching, and I’d still be skeptical that they could reverse their downward trajectory.

http://popwatch.ew.com/20...-redesign/

Myspace still exists???

SHOCKADELICA1 said:

Myspace still exists???

Right?

I was on there on Monday... I haven't checked that account since April...

I need to just delete it.

it's a good way to get your band booked, but other than that I NEVER go there

NDRU said:

it's a good way to get your band booked, but other than that I NEVER go there

totally! it's a great free website for that

chocolate1 said:

I was on there on Monday... I haven't checked that account since April...

I need to just delete it.

I deleted my page about a month ago there's just no point in going there anymore,it's like a ghost town.Everyone's at Facebook.

I still have my account there but I rarely go

i thought myspace was on welfare ??

its to late !!!!!!!!!!

Just put it out to pasture already.

We need to take it in the backyard, load the gun, and just shoot that dying mass of a site. It's bootycall central....

I never had a myspace account...always thought it was for teenagers.

PurpleJedi said:

I never had a myspace account...always thought it was for teenagers.

Yeah "scene kids".

I'm a big web-design geek, having been interested in all things HTML & CSS related since the beginning of the Internet, so I never stopped finding MySpace interesting from that perspective. I was one of those that always redesigned my home page on a regular basis, actually wrote in my blog regularly, maintained my own playlist from MP3's uploaded from my own hard-drive, designed my own graphics with Photoshop & Illustrator, and was always genuinely interested in what my "friends" were up to on their MySpace pages.

Even in recent years, as everyone migrated over to Facebook, I kept things rolling with MySpace because I never stopped finding new tricks and interesting ways to manipulate the coding. Although I must say, in the last year or two, things have gotten almost depressing on MySpace; no one sending out "comments" like they used to, and no one is really reaching out to make new "friends" there either (...don't know how many times I've fallen in love and subsequently gotten my heart broken on that site, lol). It seems to me that now, the only ones still participating on MySpace are all posing in their underwear (or less) for their profile pics, and are looking for some sort of immediate sexual gratification (whether online or by phone).

I'll be interested to see how the new design works out for MySpace, but my understanding is that it will be less customizable in the way of HTML or CSS (...some people just made a mess of their pages with such freedom - to the point where their pages wouldn't even load with so much crap going on), so my interest in maintaining a profile there may dissipate a bit.

Never really found Facebook all that interesting, and in many ways it's just too personal for my tastes. And Twitter never made sense to me, just way too much information from people I hardly know in the first place, lol. And as seldom as I may have something to add to a thread here (...compared to some others), over the years prince.org has been a much more interesting diversion for me than any of those other social-networking sites combined.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

It's bootycall central....

SoulAlive said:

...there's just no point in going there anymore,it's like a ghost town.

PurpleJedi said:

I never had a myspace account...always thought it was for teenagers.

Yeah that's why I never had an account either. I always thought myspace was for teenagers (and adults trying to be teenagers) and facebook was for college peeps...but now it's for everybody.

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SHOCKADELICA1 said:

Myspace still exists???

That was my thought too, when I read the title to this thread. "Does anybody even USE MySpace anymore?" The big thing now seems to be Facebook and Twitter. I have a MySpace account, but hardly ever go on there anymore.

@ the responses on this thread.

I was all over friendster (my profile is still up! But I can't seem to log in)

then myspace... haven't updated it in a while...

and now facebook. I want facebook to have a better way of displaying work (videos and audio).

I need to just make my own website to put up work.

ufoclub said:

I was all over friendster (my profile is still up! But I can't seem to log in)

then myspace... haven't updated it in a while...

and now facebook. I want facebook to have a better way of displaying work (videos and audio).

I need to just make my own website to put up work.

Never tried Friendster lol

And Facebook just look like a sheet of paper with some plain stuff copy and pasted on it.

Timmy84 said:

...And Facebook just look like a sheet of paper with some plain stuff copy and pasted on it.

As for the ability to customize your home page, Facebook went to the total opposite extreme of MySpace, and it's the main reason I never really got into Facebook. Although the ability to completely alter your profile on MySpace through HTML & CSS was most likely their downfall, by causing too much chaos to the site overall.

Facebooks' restrictions on the ability to customize your profile allowed the site to remain much more stable than MySpace, and was easier for many older folks to understand (less options to be concerned with).

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PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

...And Facebook just look like a sheet of paper with some plain stuff copy and pasted on it.

As for the ability to customize your home page, Facebook went to the total opposite extreme of MySpace, and it's the main reason I never really got into Facebook. Although the ability to completely alter your profile on MySpace through HTML & CSS was most likely their downfall, by causing too much chaos to the site overall.

Facebooks' restrictions on the ability to customize your profile allowed the site to remain much more stable than MySpace, and was easier for many older folks to understand (less options to be concerned with).

...and those of us with older computers had to wait FOREVER for those customized pages to load.

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

...And Facebook just look like a sheet of paper with some plain stuff copy and pasted on it.

As for the ability to customize your home page, Facebook went to the total opposite extreme of MySpace, and it's the main reason I never really got into Facebook. Although the ability to completely alter your profile on MySpace through HTML & CSS was most likely their downfall, by causing too much chaos to the site overall.

Facebooks' restrictions on the ability to customize your profile allowed the site to remain much more stable than MySpace, and was easier for many older folks to understand (less options to be concerned with).

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Faebooks "Classy" look was also very appealing to the college crowd (who were the only original users of Facebook, since you could only register with a university email address). I remember younger folk ( college and college grad) complaining that myspace was awful to look at.