In April 2023, Joanne did something she hadn't tried in well over a decade — she logged into her MySpace account. For our season finale, she set out to find the people who still use MySpace to this day. She reviews the factors that contributed to MySpace’s demise, and looks at what we lost when the MySpace era ended.
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06/07/23 • 31 min
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Main Accounts: The Story of MySpace - 8. MySpace Forever
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This is an I heeart original. So I was really intrigued by the idea of my Space and the sense of community it had. I was way too young to use it back then. I mean I was like three or four years old, but yeah, I really liked the idea of this platform where everyone could express their creativity. Because one of the main selling points of my Space was that people could create their own layouts, could customize their profiles as much as they wanted,
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