When I used to put videos on MySpace, there'd always be someone posting something nasty. To those people, I'd send friend requests, and invariably, they accepted them.
When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.
It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.
Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't.
So all I really seen my whole life is just Myspace and Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
I was contacted through MySpace to come and jam out for Michael Jackson. I thought it was a joke. I forwarded it to my manager, and it actually was legitimate, so I went the next day.
The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.
I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.
Celebrities have been using MySpace since the site's launch and it's a natural extension for us to now offer them an aggregated channel where they can be in control of their own image.
When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both'
For years troops stationed all over the world have utilised MySpace as a lifeline to communicate with their loved ones back home.
Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.
I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!
Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.
I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.
For every Netflix, there's a Blockbuster. Every Facebook, a MySpace.
It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.
I won't even say who I'm going to vote for. I don't want to make people feel like me, or MySpace, is endorsing anyone.
We want people to stay on MySpace. We'll give them whatever they might want to do.
I remember when MySpace came out. It did do something pretty incredible - which was unite people around the world with common interests and common tastes.
Even if it's other people, like on MySpace pages, we're just as collective of enthusiasts now. That seems to be the world we're in.
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
When you go to a band's MySpace page you will have the full discography of everything they've ever recorded that you can listen to online.
I'd heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.
A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.
I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.
Facebook it turns out, is like MySpace but it's not scary. There aren't a lot of angry looking people with nose rings and um, issues.
Before, I just don't think we knew how much music was out there; now with MySpace, it's really opened it up. Filmmakers have so much more choice.
I am a typical teen who likes to shop, sing karaoke, spend time with family and friends, answer my www.myspace.com e-mails
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you.
MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them, and we've given them hundreds of subjects to choose from.
We had a demo recorded that we made available on our MySpace site, and that was quite successful for us too, but not on the same level as 'Beautiful Tragedy.'
It's our hope MySpace Comedy will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, theres going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.
When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really Marilyn Manson or some kind of psycho?' And I'm like, 'Both.'
Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.
I didn't expect major labels would embrace MySpace, and the original idea for music on the site was the unsigned bands, the independent bands.
Facebook is the first class of social networking. If MySpace is Camden Lock then Facebook is Harvey Nichols.
From activism to socialising to starting new bands, 99% of everything that happens on MySpace is fun and positive. But with that many people, there's going to be a few bad apples, which presents challenges.
MySpace is just spam central. I mean, every day I just get mail inviting me to gigs that are nowhere near Los Angeles!
It's our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
We felt like we reached a point where MySpace in its original incarnation had peaked in a way.
I posted some songs on MySpace, and right away people started asking, 'Where can I get a CD?'
I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.
Back when Myspace was around I couldn't wait to have my own account. My parents told me I could get one as long as I was okay with the fact that with the good comes the bad.
The very first plan I wrote for MySpace was that it would be a portal, but a portal wrapped around your user profile.
If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
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Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.
One challenge, if you do a website, a Youtube channel, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Ping, other things like that, is you don't have time to be an artist. As a performer, you need to practice.
I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.
Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
The thing I love about Myspace is it's a safe place where I can talk to fans every day.
The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.
I don't have Twitter or Facebook or MySpace or any of those things. I think there's a kind of risky thing privacy wise and I'm a private, guided person and don't want to get too open.
I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.
I've always thought MySpace sounds like a new estate agency in central London run by two men who favour large-lapel suits and goatees.
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