Today was International Delete Your Myspace Account Day.
My MySpace account is still in tact. In fact, today I decided to resurrect my last custom MySpace profile design, seen above. I designed this almost year ago (geez, I am getting old). It was my ode to the overused design elements of Web 2.0, but with a Pink & Green twist. This was my second attempt at hacking my own design, and was an interesting exercise for Photoshop and MySpace hacking. It was fun the first few times. I ended up hacking another design at my old job (original header had to be removed, but it is here), however, designing for MySpace quickly became a pain in the neck. It is the most backwards mess of code I have ever had to accommodate for. There is no logic. Nothing makes sense. It's a very messy piece of code when you get down to it.
Anyway, as much as I hate and love to hate MySpace, I am stuck with it. I have friends and family who only e-communicate to me via MySpace. Not e-mail, not IM, not Facebook---just MySpace. There are loose tie relationships I maintain on there as well. As much beef as I have with the site, I am here to stay, unfortunately. Geeks across the land can start these deletion campaigns as much as they want, but the rest of the real world still lives with MySpace-colored glasses on. I'll keep mine on for now.
At least, until everyone leaves and goes to another site.
Love your myspace page and you are still a youngin' to me! Pink/Green is the way to go according to you and my Momma! ;) Stay fierce with it sistah!
I know many people via myspace too who REFUSE to be on other websites and I actually have met some cool people via myspace who are artists on there. So, I am not leaving!
Myspace power! ;)
Thanks Jennifer! lol. It's weird, INTERNET Time goes by so fast. Anything I did on the web a year ago always feels more like 5 years ago. 2003 feels like eons in Internet Time.
I think a lot of geeks on the web like to reminisce about what is good and bad about the web, but really, no matter what *is* actually good livelihood is always wherever the masses are. MySpace has a firm grip on everyone right now, and there's not much we can do about it. So, suck it up, keep it moving and stop with these petty protest days.
I always see fresh MySpace layouts like yours, and I think about freaking it myself ...
Then I remember that content is king in my world -- the text is more important than the presentation. Your statements about how hard it is to hack -- which I experienced a little last year when I participated in the ill-considered Entourage contest -- made me tired. I'll take plain old vanilla flavored HTML any day of the week myself, if I feel the need to design. Which is rare these days.
I was thinking about the dominance of MySpace tonight, especially since I opened my first Facebook page the other day (and yet you haven't befriended me there -- what up? >8^). If I'd have come to Facebook first -- heck, if everyone had -- it could have been a contender. But MySpace is too entrenched now, too much a fact of life, from movie campaigns to its shockingly large populace. The UI twitchiness of Facebook doesn't help -- how long did it take me to find out how to make a badge? -- so, like internal combustion engines and the electoral college, we gotta make due with what we've got, I suppose.