What I Love/Hate
About Social Media: MySpace
My first
declaration will be that I am a social media nut. Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr,
LinkedIn, Instagram, You Tube, you name it. With our society having access to
just about anything with a single swipe of your cellphone you are always
connected to those who important to you. Moreover you have the ability to meet
and connect with people that was never before possible… and all of this
fascinates me. There are many studies about the problems with social media and
how it is destroying the fabric of society, and blah, blah… but I’m not here to
discuss that today. These arguments have merit, but I believe in “everything in
moderation”. Instead I want to talk about the one major social media outlet
that I omitted in my intro. MySpace.
Who uses
my space anymore? MySpace is dead isn’t it? MySpace is bloated with annoying
ads, a dysfunctional user interface, and it’s users have left in droves.
Facebook killed it. Wasn’t MySpace the first mainstream social media giant to
connect millions upon millions of people around the world? VH1 should make a
mini documentary, “When MySpace ruled the World”. I can’t tell you the last
time I logged in to MySpace, but writing this post has me interested in going
back to see what it looks like. Oh just finished checking – I couldn’t remember
my login.
Well why
exactly am I talking about MySpace? Remember when Justin Timberlake bought the
company just last year for about 35 Million dollars? You probably thought to
yourself that was a waste of money. Or some thought I hope he knows what he’s
doing. Or some didn’t care… ? Many of you who are social media nuts like me
already know about the latest announcement from MySpace. MySpace released an
official relaunch video that demos the newest features and interface of MySpace
and it is dazzling!
Mr.
Timberlake has effectively resurrected what was at one time the King of Social
Media. The timing probably couldn’t be better either. With all the talk about
Facebook faltering this may be the opportunity that MySpace has been waiting on
to remerge and take it’s place as the social media elite. So what does it look
like? What is it going to be? Well I have included a link to you can click to
take you there to discover for yourself. You can also sign up for email
correspondence for when MySpace officially launches. http://vimeo.com/50071857
Well
fans, friends, humans, and half-breeds, I hope you enjoyed that. Today you got
to hear from the illustrator of my book and one of my favorite tech guys. He’s
a lot of fun and knows his stuff. He works in a highly technological field and
he’s a bit of a geek just like me. We shall be seeing more from Eric as he has
just jumped on board be a regular featured guest here at the Eternal Curse
Series Universe. See you all next time.
