Myspace is gradually inviting users to "new Myspace," the first big refresh in the post-News Corp era, and already the claws have come out. We took a tour of the new site and found that its most remarkable quality seems to be how eager people are to bash it.
As with AOL, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, and other web properties perceived as dinosaurs, many users seem strangely eager to tear Myspace down over its struggles to remain relevant, as if the mere fact of its continued presence at myspace.com is offensive. The site’s death has been pronounced repeatedly. "MySpace was about to die a slow, painful, deserving death," blogger Giancarlo King wrote in a memorium earlier this year. "Browsing old abandoned profiles is like walking through a...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/26/3793050/why-we-love-to-hate-myspace
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