MySpace zaps millions of teens' tearful rants, causes wave of angst MySpace, the Justin Timberlake-owned social network that refuses to die, is back yet again with a new desktop interface – and minus several years of users' blogs and comments. Blogs don't form part of the new MySpace – sorry, Myspace, they've dropped the capital S – and neither do home pages full of pinned videos and user …
All my playlists, contacts, photos and history are intact, restored within minutes on login to the new MySpace...
But then again, I have not been, like most people, a fair weather friend; I've checked in every now and then, posted, connected, uploaded, created playlists, read and responded to messages.
It wouldn't surprise me that those complaining virtually abandoned their blogs and stuff in the wake of the rise and rise of FaceBook.
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"When you store your stuff on someone else's (FREE) platform, shit like this happens. If you value it, back it up somewhere else, somewhere YOU own..."
Its almost Friday so have an Upvote! In addition folks, don't get too used to any particular interface on your fav social / music / sharing platform. The site's omnipotent owners are addicted to making changes. They often break stuff that works and you actually like, in favour of new interfaces that deliver more ads-- sorry I mean-- more social connection! Unplugged from the Grid and binned fb & google over the weekend. Easier than thought. Can now return to local providers and the real-world....
Unplugged from the Grid and binned fb & google over the weekend. Easier than thought. Can now return to local providers and the real-world....
Some folks were forcibly unplugged from the grid, FB and all social media after a storm front blew through their area Thursday evening. Withdrawal symptoms were tough to deal with but most seemed to survive and actually remember how to talk to people with their mouths and reflect their emotions via body language and facial signals. That is until the power came back on and they started sucking the crack data pipe again.
I guess these angsty teens are too young to remember the great big void that was the vanishment of GeoCities. Or maybe Google's seemingly random cancellation of some products in lieu of others. When you're being hosted by a free service, you are subject to their caprices.
"We could probably add CompServe to the list."
And thus begins the long litany of services that delivered customer/freetard data, which eventually disappeared. So, to get the list underway, I offer the very first instance, and leave it to you to fill in the gaps.
We could probably add The Serpent in The Garden that tempted Adam and Eve.
This would be closer to all the BBS systems, FIDO net... all gone now.
Sorry but you are quite wrong there. Many BBS systems are still in operation. Some still have POTS capability in addition to telnet and/or ssh access.
And Fidonet? Fidonet is definitely still alive and active. Granted it doesn't have the 40000 nodes worldwide that it did back in the late '90's with all their hundreds and thousands of users each but it is still alive and active. Yes even offline mail via QWK and Bluewave are still very much in use by those who choose to continue to use that format ;)
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You can get all your old geocities junk off the internet archive apparently, as well as other archive sites dedicated to that purpose.
Might be worth a look for those who really need their old blog posts, assuming they were world visible and the internet archive is spidering myspace.
Ok
Justin Bieber is basically a pale white imitation of young Michael Jackson, if you forget about the decent music and focus on the bat-shit crazy monkey owning child being exploited by everyone around him aspect.
Justin Timberlake is a slightly taller and older pale white imitation of 80s ‘Bad’ album Michael Jackson, who seems to still think it’s 2003, a trait found when hearing any of his ‘new’ songs and his ownership of MySpace.
Timberland is either a type of footwear known for its deep voice distinctive track mastering that used to hang around with Nelly Furtado and Missy Elliot, and appeared in a number of music videos for Justin Timberlake in 2003…
Or a Hip Hop producer that protects the feet of builders and rappers.
Not sure on that last point
Thanks for the explanation, now it's all clear to me! But looking at the problem from another angle for a moment, I have a question: if we assume "Justin Bieber, Justin Timberland and Timberlake" to be some kind of series, what would be the next name in the series, and what kind of properties would it have?
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They have already branched out to the UK in the form of high pitched drunken sounding acoustic guitar playing rapper Justin T, only due to not having the required MJ influence of the other incarnations they forced him to change his name to Jamie T.
I would have to guess that the next ‘proper’ incarnation of this series will be an as pale 90s era Michael Jackson imitation called ‘J Timber’ who dresses as a huge shoe, and who signs in a high pitched girlish voice while thursting at teenage girls in a not threating way.
He will often then say ‘wika wika’ in a much deeper smother style a la Timberland (as in “wika wika baby girl uh” – from the Aaliyah song Try Again, and “ohhh the damage is done so I guess I’ll be wika wika leaving ohhh” the Justin Timberland song Cry me a River).
J Timber will go on to own Bebo and star in a film about how Twitter started up.
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