Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos

Subject: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: open mike
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 08:27 PM

Are there any other Cats who had My Space site pages? The "new improved" version of this "service" has eliminated content with no warning, and no apparent possibility of retrieving blog info, videos or other personal info which used to reside on the "old" site. I see comments from many others who are angry, as pictures of people no longer alive, and other irreplaceble content is now gone. pissed.

It seems as if they are making it easy to listen to commercial music, but have no option to access user-created material. The info on my page was not copied from others as much as it was created by me, and
i would have liked a chance to copy it off of the site, had i known they were going to eliminate it!!

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 08:32 PM

There was a thread a few days back.

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: open mike
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 09:05 PM

hmm.... i do not see anything recent
(does the search not work for recent posts?)
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=92090
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=100763
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=134177
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=133616
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=131181
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=107625
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=120689

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 09:10 PM

Guess not. It may have been a few weeks back. I seldom come here anymore.

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 11:28 PM

Trace Richard Bridge's remarks at Mudcat. I remember reading it, and he posted something.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 11:35 PM

I thought that would work - but I find notthing. He may have made a response on the mudcat facebook page to something posted there. You might have to go there for a thread that discussed it.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 11:41 PM

There was a post a couple days back. I revisited my old myspace page as a result. I never was in to the blogging thing, but the videos I had posted were gone. They are still up on youtube, so they're not lost. Someone else described myspace as "the internets unused playground."

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Jun 13 - 11:57 PM

There have been a number of news reports about "changes at Facebook" for some months. They seem to pop up about every week or two.

"Explanations" of what users need to do to save their stuff and/or display it the way they want it are usually "vague" so far as I can tell, but then I don't participate so I'm not very familiar with the site.

I don't recall any recent hype about lost files, although they were "phasing in" "something new" a week or two ago, and with most such changes individual users see the "improvements" appearing over a period of time. Sometimes they put some help in their FAQs.

While those of us who don't use Facebook may assume that the frequent changes are just because they don't really know what they're doing, that's probably unfair, since the insist that each change is an "improvement." Maybe they're just "slow improvers."

Of course you've moved all your important stuff to the "the cloud" where somebody else can decide for you how to make sure it's all safe ... (?).

John

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: rumanci
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 12:58 AM

Here's the other recent thread entitled "What's happened to MySpace?"

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=151166

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 01:10 AM

You get what you pay for.

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Tootler
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 03:03 AM

The other thread is in BS. I've just added a comment

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Acorn4
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 03:55 AM

I had that happen - a video of one of our regulars who passed away removed without explanation.

Subject: RE: Tech: My Space site deleted blog and videos
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 09:30 AM

The other thread is now on top. It might be useful to combine them.

SRS