4 Matching Annotations
- Dec 2022
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zephoria.medium.com zephoria.medium.com
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I often think back to MySpace’s downfall. In 2007, I penned a controversial blog post noting a division that was forming as teenagers self-segregated based on race and class in the US, splitting themselves between Facebook and MySpace. A few years later, I noted the role of the news media in this division, highlighting how media coverage about MySpace as scary, dangerous, and full of pedophiles (regardless of empirical evidence) helped make this division possible. The news media played a role in delegitimizing MySpace (aided and abetted by a team at Facebook, which was directly benefiting from this delegitimization work).
danah boyd argued in two separate pieces that teenagers self-segregated between MySpace and Facebook based on race and class and that the news media coverage of social media created fear, uncertainty, and doubt which fueled the split.
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- Aug 2022
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chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com
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“Bedrooms were the first MySpace. You came over to someone’s room, and it was all their music tastes and pictures of their friends.
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- May 2022
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www.robinsloan.com www.robinsloan.com
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Arguing about the future of Twitter is a loser’s game; a dead end. The platform’s only conclusion can be abandonment: an overdue MySpace-ification.
I love the verbifification of MySpace here. Its one of the earliest and most popular social media platforms which is now primarily known for its spectacular collapse and death as a social platform.
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- Feb 2018
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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“We traced the creation of the Facebook accounts to IP addresses at the Apple store a block away from the MySpace offices in Santa Monica,”
MySpace people used internet access at Apple stores to try to malign Facebook.
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