What's happened to Myspace?

Subject: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: PHJim
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 09:26 PM

I just went to my myspace page to grab a photo and found that I can't negotiate the site any more. I tried to check out some other sites and they're in the same state. Does this mean that everything I have put on myspace is lost?
I realise that few folks use it any more, but it used to be way better for musicians than facebook.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 12:05 AM

It's in Limbo and may be sold to Yahoo, last I heard.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 08:02 AM

Yesterday, I found my classic MySpace had been forced over to the new Myspace, which meant that the Blog, with all 230 of my poems, is gone for good. It still seems to be a good place for music, though, and perhaps we can now post more than 10 tracks..? E.g. - https://myspace.com/walkaboutsverse

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 09:43 AM

MySpace fucked us over years ago. Why do people thing it will be any different now or in future? IMO, if you stayed with MySpace after the first screwing around you are getting what you deserve.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 09:17 PM

Further to the 09:43 post, I just tripped over the following. Hope it helps.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/06/myspaces-20m-relaunch-deletes-its-remaining-users-blogs.html

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 12:12 AM

So the term "re-launch" is really a misnomer. It sounds more like a new launch. They disappear/alienate their existing user base and lose whatever loyal fans remained. That's throwing away their chief asset. Way to go, guys.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 12:29 AM

The page I set up years ago for my daughter's band is still there and still running after a bit of poking about.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 08:34 AM

I looked up the old cooper and nelson page, after reading this thread. It's still there, but not easy to negotiate. The videos I posted, independent of youtube disappeared. I did get several emails from myspace welcoming me back. Not sure I'll do so as regularly as I used to.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 10:00 AM

At an earlier rescrewing I tried to get out but it wouldn't accept any password etc. Just looked now and it is certainly the worst its been. A small pic of me and my name, an invisible menu below and a screen full of a red and grey glow! Useless.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 10:08 AM

> At an earlier rescrewing [great phrase] I tried to get out

They won't let you delete your account? Wow.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 06:09 AM

I did post a thread some time since entitled 'Look what they've done to My Space Ma'
This is how my page looks now! Utterly useless.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 13 - 11:35 AM

From this perspective it looks fine, JHW. However, I quit MySpace when they changed the look and utility about five(?) years back. There was NO reason for them not to provide time for 'customer' input. Woke up one day and there it was, different. Pissed me off so much I deleted the account then wrote to tell the MySpace people to get stuffed--not that politely--soonest. Haven't trusted them since.

Subject: RE: BS: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Tootler
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 02:59 AM

I also quit my space when they messed up last time. They seem hell bent on screwing up their user base

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: PHJim
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 10:53 AM

I can still listen to songs, but my photos have gone, except for my profile picture which has had the top of my head chopped off.

This is how my page looks now. I've lost most of the stuff I had here.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Vic Smith
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 11:03 AM

I ran four MySpace Sites for my folk club, festival, barn dance band and the African musicians that I support. This latest re-vamp has made nonsense of everything that I had loaded on these four sites so I will be abandoning them.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Chris Partington
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 11:42 AM

My site has completely vanished.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 24 Jun 13 - 02:18 PM

PHJim your page looks much like mine, most of the screen blank space, your pic top left with an unreadable menu below.
Vic Smith 'revamp has made nonsense of them' sums it up perfectly.

What baffles me about free sites wrecking things is you'd have thought that they and their shareholders would want to keep users as they make their money from advertising. Yahoo Email have finally kicked me out of access to their Classic blue version and up comes, take it or leave it, the Purple version which isn't a patch on the blue one so I'm looking elsewhere. Facebook recently shuffled their page about so I got out, conveniently reducing the emails I get.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Splott Man
Date: 25 Jun 13 - 03:59 AM

This is our profile as of today: -
"MySpace have decided to F*** with our stuff on here. Our profile, biographical details, links to our videos and other stuff that is important to us have all been deleted.When we have time we will try to reinstate it. Or alternatively we may go to one of MySpace's competitors and start afresh. Either way, please be patient and enjoy the music and photos of friends that remain.Pat & Ned"

Their formatting, not mine.

Splott Man

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,SOMH
Date: 25 Jun 13 - 04:32 PM

With services like Twitter, Soundcloud and Bandcamp (even Youtube and Facebook), I can't perceive why anyone would use Myspace. It's been defunct for nearly half a decade...

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jun 13 - 04:37 PM

Defunct but not de-fucked.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Acorn4
Date: 26 Jun 13 - 06:13 AM

I've just tried to re-upload a video and it refuses to do it - last chance saloon - you can't really complain as it's a freebie except over the time and effort you've put in which is now wasted.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 26 Jun 13 - 10:04 AM

Won't let me look at it at all unless I download a new browser: can't be bothered!

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jun 13 - 04:35 AM

I am so pissed right now!!! I had thousands of family pics on myspace that i would look at from time to time...Now its all gone!!!!

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 13 - 02:30 PM

I'd also spent quite a bit of time organising pics there, Guest, and am having to do it all again on http://profiles.google.com/walkaboutsverse. Also, visitors now have to sign-in to hear anything on Myspace.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 29 Jun 13 - 05:50 PM

Had 115,000+ views, 18,100 fans/contacts, hundreds of photos...still unable to contact them...Where's the RESPECT?

Introducing Mudcatters to Fandalism...http://fandalism.com/bobryszkiewicz

It's all about musician's contacting musicians. but it has been friendly, and it does help to get the word out...BR

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Acorn4
Date: 30 Jun 13 - 04:35 AM

In fact you can load your photos across from the old Myspace if you explore the site a bit - but the videos, blogs, and almost everything else is gone.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 30 Jun 13 - 08:26 AM

I think everyone should treat this site with exactly the same respect and consideration that they've shown their loyal users. "You wanna Disappear stuff from your pages? Fine. How's this?" Abracadabra. Gone.

I hear that Soundcloud is good. A great way to look it over would be to give Jim McAdam (Jock O'Dreams) 's music a listen (lovely Scottish traditional singing). Thread is here:

Full CD on Soundcloud-Jim McAdams

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,P'd O Vet
Date: 08 Jul 13 - 02:12 PM

Man, I had written my life story on those blogs. It was refreshing to see views of what I had put down. For a fledgling writer with talent that meant alot. MySpace, and The the powers that JT said: Fuck You.

I get tons of reminders of Timberlake stuff, but my art has been vanquished to the winds.

Guess I should contact the NSA to get my stuff back. They should have it. Since MySpace probably/obviously doesn't.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: open mike
Date: 08 Jul 13 - 03:01 PM

They MUST have contact info for everyone,,,
and they COULD have sent messages warning
that they were about to trash all of our
treasured blogs, videos, etc. so we at
least could download them for our own
archives...actually i did catch wind
of the possible changes, and i did
save all the text from my blog there
which contained the play lists of
every radio show I have produced
since 2003 or so....

but some of the videos that i had there
are irreplaceable as a fire destroyed
the source footage....damn!

they have lost me as a "customer"
they seem to encourage people to
copy commercial music but they are
clueless about original music...
and poetry....and video...

and customer relations.....

they are flailing and failing...
and facebook left them in the dust
and they are desperately seeking
remedies to keep afloat...
unfortunately they just shot
holes in their life boat...
and will no doubt sink quickly
after dis-respecting their members
so rudely....no blogs? no video?
they are trying to reduce their
bandwidth, apparently, but they
made a bad decision!!

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jul 13 - 03:44 AM

actually i find they have re-posted the videos i had uploaded..well, at least the ones i made public. I posted a few to send to a band mate as a practice for songs we were doing for a gig, and made them private, as they were meant only to be seen by a few invited people, these are no longer to be found.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 09 Jul 13 - 05:16 AM

I tried to listen to some music from various artists' MySpace sites recently and it now insists you sign up before it will let you even start to listen at all. Just like b**** Facebook. Is this supposed to be publicly available information or not? Why why why can't things be left as they were? I was going to join MySpace ages ago but hadn't bothered, and now I'm glad I hadn't done - but it still annoys me.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 09 Jul 13 - 05:59 AM

You did better than I managed to, Moorly. I couldn't even FIND anywhere to search for artists that I know are on there. Or were.

It's so counter-productive that it's almost as though there's some scheme to deliberately lose money on this venture. Anybody remember The Producers?

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 09 Jul 13 - 08:43 AM

I remember the Producers, Bonnie. Myspace seems to have a lot of flash and no substance. I noticed the songs I put up on the Cooper & Nelson sire were still there, but not much else. I haven't checked the February Sky page yet, but I suspect the same will be there. We jumped ship to facebook and google+ and those seems easier to deal with.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: PHJim
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 02:27 AM

Phil, how do you share music on Facebook. If I post a tune, it soon scrolls down and disappears. The only ones I can save are videos that people have made at gigs and tagged me in, and sometimes I wish they would go away.
On the old Myspace, at least your tunes were always available to visitors to your site.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 02:53 AM

Justin Timberlake bought into Myspace a while back, hugely..and apparently wanted it to be far more about Musicians than anything else...

So, I guess the rest of us, you know, those who used to er..PROMOTE the musicians, Justin, were considered to be of no importance? Although it seems that they've fecked up the pages of nearly everyone..

All my blogs have gone and I'm so upsest..and I'm so angry with myself for not saving them, especially the one about Gloria and Charlie's beloved son, Peter, as I can't re-do that, not knowing the dates various things happened...

And..the other thing that's really upset me is my Harry Farr page has gone, on the song Reg Meuross wrote about him '...And Jesus Wept'

I do so much research for that page, so much time and energy and amazing information now all gone...

This site deserves to die, and fast. They've shown that they have NO respect for anyone and to them, it's all about promoting fecking Justin Timberlake and HIS ideas of what Myspace should be..

ALL they had to do was to get the word out that they were going to wipe out everyone's work, giving six months or so notice of their plans, for word WOULD have spread fast...

But, they don't give a shit about people...

I hope he loses a LOT of money over this...and that all other involved in Myspace do so, likewise.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Acorn4
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 03:49 AM

...and no thanks, I don't want to be "part of the Michael Jackson experience".

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 09:40 AM

PHJim, on facebook you can upload videos of your song in the video section, though I think few people really look there. There is also a way to post just the songs on a reverbnation part. I haven't used it. I agree that it would be nice to have some songs permanently there on the profile page. I try not to over post song video's on my page because I think it can get to be like a three year old bragging that they took a dump by themselves if you over do it. I did set up a youtube channel and figure people can go there if they want. I've just started putting songs up on soundcloud, that's pretty easy.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 08:10 PM

Hi Lizzie: I must have put in thousands of hours into MySpace, working on a daily basis since 2007. Yes, it is frustrating, having put that much effort.

But in some weird way, I feel this is part of the Internet "correcting itself" so to speak. It is unbelievable how one group of people can affect the work of millions of Artists...and not in some way, be held accountable. If they had done this to a museum, they would be in jail with stiff fines attached. In Cyberspace, they get a yawn...

What MySpace could have been is immeasurable. Home to Artists. Database for Music Supervisors to get music into film, video games, websites, etc. A Radio Station. A MASSIVE store offering low cost streaming, while PAYING FOR the music of the musicians whose work they feature.

This will go down in history as THE textbook on how to totally screw up a venture. I think there were, guessing here, about 350,000,000+/- users at one point, until they stopped posting how large YOUR (LOL) network was, remember THAT?

Oh well, as Tupac once was supposed to have said, "when life gives you tragedies, don't even bother to pick up the pieces, just move on."

But the wild one within me sure would like to have Justin Timberlake and his "team" walk through the gauntlet of those 350,000,000 users...BR

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 10 Jul 13 - 08:38 PM

One more thing, (remembering Steve Jobs here)..While there is no obligation on the part of the owners of MySpace, i.e. hey put up your stuff, and if it goes, or if we feel like deleting it, well, that's OUR business.. & well, too bad.

But I wonder if there are any "Legal Eagles" looking into, shall we say, the "moral" obligation of destroying somebody's "Space" without notification? Undue stress, destruction of personal property and the like...

Are there any grounds, in this case, for a "class action", or "mass action" lawsuit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action

Probably in DREAMLAND on this one...BR

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:02 AM

I'd LOVE for that to happen to them, Bob..and I think it is absolutely correct that they should be taken to court over this. I think the cold-blooded way they've done this says all...and anyone who continues to use their site must be brainless, for they could do it all over again, without a moment's hesitation.

It was the BEST of the best, before Greed took it over...

So many people will have lost irreplaceable things..and also lost so many contacts around the world too, for it was a huge friendship builder for many.

I found Gloria and Charlie PURELY because of Myspace, which led me to the sad but wondrous story of their son, Peter. I stumbled into Peter's words one day on a page of man called Clay. Clay worked as an English teacher to the Chinese Liberation Army (I kid you not)...was American himself..and he used his page as a bridge builder for his students, trying to get them to connect around the world with people, so that they would understand there was a very different world out there for them to explore...Some of them came to my page, and they were so sweet, especially a young woman called Lily...

I actually got to meet Gloria and Charlie a few years ago, whilst in New York..they live in New Jersey...and it was wonderful to be able to hug them at long last....

And THAT was the Magic of Myspace, which The Selfish & The Sociopaths have now destroyed, twice over...to the point of Oblivion.

May they not only be taken to court, but also found guilty and duly charged, preferably with crippling $ fines....

xxx

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:05 AM

Just found this, Bob, if you, and/or others want to write to Myspace..


>>>"You Can Get your Photos Back But you Cant Get your Blogs Or Messages Back Those Are Gone

Here is How to Get your Photos Onto The New Myspace

Login Go to Settings Than Click on Transfer Pictures and Myspace Will Transfer all of your Pictures Over to the New Myspace

If you Want to Contact the Myspace Team and Complain to them you Can
Email Them here [e-mail]" <<<

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 06:19 AM

email: [e-mail].

Who's up for taking Myspace to Court for the deliberate destruction of the work, research, blogs and friendships of MILLIONS of people on their site?

Richard, is this doable?

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Acorn4
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 07:16 AM

As the service was free, I'd have my doubts about that.

Although I've got my photos back, if someone else views the site I don't think they can see them, although they can see the videos - I suppose there might be some kind of button to make the photos public.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 07:54 AM

We knew years ago that MySpace was capable of screwing its users. Recall the day you woke up and surprise, your page was different and stuff didn't work the same way? Well, it's happened again. If you stayed with them after that then you deserve each other.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish
Date: 11 Jul 13 - 08:58 AM

I could never get back in after the first change they made...Nor could I copy and paste my blogs, only link to them. I *should* have taken screen shots of them, but...........   :0(

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 12 Jul 13 - 07:33 PM

Lizzie: So many MySpace stories to tell. I met the guy who was the screenwriter for The Godfather. Met a famous "presenter", as you like to say in the UK. She was on a well known TV show, and at first, I thought it was somebody pretending to be her, but subsequent emails proved, that it was, in fact, her, via photos & her website. I met Chris Montez, my childhood/teen idol with the major hit, "Let's Dance," which I must have sung a zillion times...LOL

The one that sticks with me are the mothers of children who had died, asking if they could "friend" me after hearing "The Ghost of Elvis."

I had taken MySpace seriously. In the early days, it was common to hear, "what's your MySpace?," among musicians & industry people.

I used it as a reference point to contact music supervisors and the like. OMG This brings back the memory of a British conductor, who had heard my songs, and I must say, GRACIOUSLY told me that he would keep me in mind for projects.

So far, nothing has worked to contact Myspace. The address bar is acting differently from day to day, the blue line goes just past "bob" and then skips to the middle of my last name, as if it were trying to connect, but was being blocked (best guess)...

There were some SERIOUS people, with high-end sites on there, major acts from Nashville, etc.
I wonder what they are doing?

I'll be watching for the majors for any litigation action. I know a lot of people were hurt by MySpace. And it mystifies me how an entity can be worth multimillions in one year, then become nearly invisible in the next....BR

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 12 Jul 13 - 07:53 PM

AND THEN...What I am pondering is the dangerous precedent this has set for the Internet as a whole. Does this mean that your Yahoo/Hotmail, etc. email account (with the files you have) can be wiped out in a nanosecond? With no recourse available to you?

And all that banking and financial/business stuff...Yikes...

I feel some Government/WORLD body should step in and tell Myspace, "you can't do that..."

BR

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Jul 13 - 08:51 AM

"wiped out in a nanosecond"


Probably so.      The customer seems to have approximately zero power in this.

It looks like you have to print out anything you hope to keep forever. So much for saving paper.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Jul 13 - 08:53 AM

"forever"    Or at least until you, rather than some corporate entity, decide you want to ditch it.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 13 Jul 13 - 09:02 AM

Even then...? You know how things on Facebook never truly get ditched. It's academic now, but CAN one even remove all traces of something, forever...? Or does some version stick around in cyberspace to potentially haunt you? (Thinking of legal issues mostly.)

Is any concensus of opinion developing as to a new central muso-hangout/network?

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 14 Jul 13 - 05:01 PM

Ron: Thanks for trying to help, but we are not on the same page. How do you print out HDTV Video files? Or, mp3s, etc.

Stiff upper lip, and onward and upward...the South shall rise again..how is that for mixing quotes?

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 06 Aug 13 - 04:36 PM

Is myspace dead? Now you can VOTE...here...http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/08/myspace-is-like-an-internet-cockroach-vote.html

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Aug 13 - 01:26 AM

Sounds like folks got about what they paid for.

Subject: RE: What's happened to Myspace?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 10 Aug 13 - 05:27 PM

MySpace did some great things for me...115,000+ profile views, 18,100+ Fans/Contacts.

So many positive things from my MySpace experience. Why they could not position themselves to generate income is a mystery...BR