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I posted to delicious.com
Why I Left MySpace
http://rynoweb.com/why-i-left-myspace/
October 29 2009, 5:32pm | Comments »
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I posted to flickr.com
Nielsen Social Sites Minutes Spent On - April 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryno/3596880035/
chuck-reynolds
So Nielsen just released the top social sites and how many mintues people have spent on those sites and compared them to last year...
DO YOU BELIEVE ME NOW THAT MYSPACE IS DEAD? lmao...
Seriously just had TWO people this week arguing with me about myspace...
Facebook is bigger than Myspace EVER was and mostly this last year because everybody has been bailing out of myspace because it sucks.
I rest my case
June 5 2009, 3:18am | Comments »
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I posted to rynoweb.com
Why I Left MySpace
http://feeds.rynoweb.com/~r/rynoweb/~3/416268818/
MySpace has become the Goodwill / Walmart of social media sites. My leaving this late in the game may surprise many of you (assuming I would have left long ago) but I have hung out for some not-so-internet-savvy friends, but have finally made the decision official; I'm deleting my MySpace profile and not looking back.
Most already know the garbage dump that is MySpace but for my personal reasons this is why I'm leaving there for good:
Friend requests… fake accounts… hot stock-photo girls adding me to spam their site or pics… Poker groups… ugh leave me alone. Site Errors when trying to use the site are out of control. They've fixed a lot of them but still with the errors. Even though the messages say "This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group" I can't deal with it. If they could they'd have to rebuild the site from the ground up - it's a wreck. It's become too band/music oriented, for me at least. Sites like last.fm work better for me discovering music. Every "new feature" they implement is already on Facebook, or other social sites - they don't innovate, they copy and not well mind you. It's run by a bunch of suits who couldn't explain the meaning of "social media" if it was on a cue card. The blogging feature is a joke. No RSS feeds? Nuff said. If you don't know what an RSS feed is yet… you fail - watch "RSS in Plain English" Photos.. IF the uploader even works it's not a good photo management system. They recently added the URL for the photo and the embed code but again… way late and there's no tagging, searching, grouping with other people's images, multiple sizes, etc… Flickr.com is the way to go and works so much better and can work with any other site. MySpace mobile… fail - is it that hard to make a semi-feature packed mobile version of your site? that works…? I mean I can log into my frickin bank and do mobile banking but I can't read or see a comment or messages… ugh The bulletin lists… Do I really care about the last person you kissed or thought about? Really? It's the reincarnation of the dreaded "Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Best Joke Ever" email chains… just stop already! Advertisements… granted I block ads with AdBlock Plus for Firefox but how much frickin adspace does one site need? Christ!, they sell out all the usable interface. If you actually use your myspace page for your business - you fail - it just proves you don't know what the hell you're doing and there's a 98% chance you're not hitting your target demographic by doing it - you just heard it was the right thing to do by somebody who also didn't know what the hell they were doing. (unless you're a band / DJ, or stripper / escort, or a car model / go-go dancer - notice the groupings lol) Even some of my most non-internet savvy friends who don't even have a MySpace profile have recently created Facebook profiles and have found me on there all on their own, and more are coming online every day. Facebook is finally digging in deeper and hitting those scattered and lost souls and helping to connect them with the rest of the world. And finally, the scene is tired and dead. MySpace used to be the hot startup and place to be (years ago), until all the problems became clearly evident to everybody and the spammers and phishers abused the system. By the time MySpace did anything about it, the damage was done. The people in the know have moved on.
Thing is, I set it up so I'm private, dumped all the people I didn't want, blocked bands and most friend requests, and it has become silent for a while now. So silent that I very rarely even log in anymore. The only real reason I've kept my profile for so long is that there's some people that just haven't gotten with the times and are hanging on to MySpace. It's time though that I move on and if they'd like to use real social media and friend me on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter or any of them they can, but I'm not hanging around anymore for them. See my about page for where else to find me. rYnoweb.com by Chuck Reynolds
October 9 2008, 7:24pm | Comments »
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I posted to rynoweb.com
Why I Left MySpace
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rynoweb/~3/XDN_IoRB7s8/
MySpace has become the Goodwill / Walmart of social media sites. My leaving this late in the game may surprise many of you (assuming I would have left long ago) but I have hung out for some not-so-internet-savvy friends, but have finally made the decision official; I'm deleting my MySpace profile and not looking back.
Most already know the garbage dump that is MySpace but for my personal reasons this is why I'm leaving there for good:
Friend requests… fake accounts… hot stock-photo girls adding me to spam their site or pics… Poker groups… ugh leave me alone. Site Errors when trying to use the site are out of control. They've fixed a lot of them but still with the errors. Even though the messages say "This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group" I can't deal with it. If they could they'd have to rebuild the site from the ground up - it's a wreck. It's become too band/music oriented, for me at least. Sites like last.fm work better for me discovering music. Every "new feature" they implement is already on Facebook, or other social sites - they don't innovate, they copy and not well mind you. It's run by a bunch of suits who couldn't explain the meaning of "social media" if it was on a cue card. The blogging feature is a joke. No RSS feeds? Nuff said. If you don't know what an RSS feed is yet… you fail - watch "RSS in Plain English" Photos.. IF the uploader even works it's not a good photo management system. They recently added the URL for the photo and the embed code but again… way late and there's no tagging, searching, grouping with other people's images, multiple sizes, etc… Flickr.com is the way to go and works so much better and can work with any other site. MySpace mobile… fail - is it that hard to make a semi-feature packed mobile version of your site? that works…? I mean I can log into my frickin bank and do mobile banking but I can't read or see a comment or messages… ugh The bulletin lists… Do I really care about the last person you kissed or thought about? Really? It's the reincarnation of the dreaded "Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: Best Joke Ever" email chains… just stop already! Advertisements… granted I block ads with AdBlock Plus for Firefox but how much frickin adspace does one site need? Christ!, they sell out all the usable interface. If you actually use your myspace page for your business - you fail - it just proves you don't know what the hell you're doing and there's a 98% chance you're not hitting your target demographic by doing it - you just heard it was the right thing to do by somebody who also didn't know what the hell they were doing. (unless you're a band / DJ, or stripper / escort, or a car model / go-go dancer - notice the groupings lol) Even some of my most non-internet savvy friends who don't even have a MySpace profile have recently created Facebook profiles and have found me on there all on their own, and more are coming online every day. Facebook is finally digging in deeper and hitting those scattered and lost souls and helping to connect them with the rest of the world. And finally, the scene is tired and dead. MySpace used to be the hot startup and place to be (years ago), until all the problems became clearly evident to everybody and the spammers and phishers abused the system. By the time MySpace did anything about it, the damage was done. The people in the know have moved on.
Thing is, I set it up so I'm private, dumped all the people I didn't want, blocked bands and most friend requests, and it has become silent for a while now. So silent that I very rarely even log in anymore. The only real reason I've kept my profile for so long is that there's some people that just haven't gotten with the times and are hanging on to MySpace. It's time though that I move on and if they'd like to use real social media and friend me on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter or any of them they can, but I'm not hanging around anymore for them. See my about page for where else to find me. rYnoweb.com by Chuck Reynolds
October 9 2008, 7:24pm | Comments »
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