Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on in this image?
What would be the point of doing this? As far as I can tell, it’s a more concentrated form of advertising. “Personalized entertainment stream of content you know and love?” Sounds like another way of figuring out exactly what you like to buy so companies can nag you to buy more of it. Soon there will be a type of advertising so pure, you could bottle and market it as a drink. After you drink it, you hallucinate that the people around you are corporate logos, and only say slogans and factoids about their company.
But seriously, combining your MySpace with your Facebook account? Hasn’t everyone long chosen a side on this one? There was a clear winner in this race, unlike Coke and Pepsi. MySpace got beat the fuck down, just after they were purchased by Rupert Murdoch. (Hahahahahahahaha– sorry, let me catch my –hahahahahaha) I know that Facebook is essentially useless (if it went down for good tomorrow, everyone would survive), but isn’t MySpace even more so? (If it went down for good tomorrow, no one would even notice.)
I seemed like, at first, MySpace had lost their user base but held on to the bands that had begun to use it (ah, the terr– I mean AWESOME bands MySpace introduced to me), so they would continue to exist diminished but at least with a well defined use. Now that Soundcloud and Bandcamp have made digital distribution and streaming even easier than MySpace did, it looks like it’s all over for Rupert Murdoch’s ill-advised foray into the internets. (Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.) That’s twice now that a supposedly pack-leading, trend-setting website has been caught with their pants down regarding a major innovation.
So maybe this combining thing will fully assimilate MySpace once and for all, ridding them forever from the interwebs (and rolling over that old high-school era account I never got around to deleting). But most likely it’s their latest sad attempt to reclaim whatever luster they used to have, and making themselves look foolish in the process. I mean, they aren’t at the level of a Geocities home page plastered with awful wallpaper and endless requests to “Sign my Guestbook!”, but wow are they trying.
