Start narrowing down your Top 8 and finding a melodramatic song that speaks to your moment, because the platform that truly set the social media wave into motion — MySpace — is cresting for a comeback.
MySpace was the website at the center of the millennial internet experience in the 2000s (115 million monthly visitors in 2008). It was defined by highly customizable HTML and vibrant profiles and personal profile songs, a somewhat juvenile “top friends” list, “duck face” selfies, everyone’s first friend “Tom,” blogging and an emphasis both on interactions with close friends and offering a useful tool for finding new and obscure music at all levels.
Founded in 2003, by 2006 MySpace was the most visited site in the U.S., before the “more mature” perception of a then fledgling Facebook crashed the party in the late 2000s…