Do you remember Myspace?
Do you remember myspace? Myspace.com, a website once hailed as the king of social media, before facebook era.
Myspace was great. During that myspace years I was living in a small town at Central Java. Small town with so many young musicians from various genre. Black metal was the most dominant one, followed by reggae, punk rock, and Emo (yes, that was the year where Dashboard Confessional released “Hands Down”, their most sing-a-long anthem imo).
As a music scene in such small town in the middle of nowhere, myspace helped us a lot. Via myspace we connected easily with friends aboard. People from different music scene. It was great. We made friends with many bands from South East Asia region (mainly Malaysia and Singapore, maybe because we shared common language). We also made friends with fellows from Europe, US, Australia.
I remember my friend did a split album with a punk rock band from Sweden. While other friend did split album with Band from France. Another friend’s album was released by an indie label in Spain and US. It was exciting. And all thanks to myspace.
So when did all that fun gone? I don’t remember. Most probably it has something to do with Facebook. You know when facebook first came, it change our browsing habits. We didn’t go to another website because everything was there. We always have friends in our feed that shared fun content to click, to like, to react. Then twitter came. It was massive. I was already reside in Jakarta when twitter happened. And Jakarta was one of the most active city in twitter.
Was myspace not half as fun as facebook or twitter? For me, no. Myspace was fun.
Was it the engagement level? Probably yes. Facebook clearly won it. That notification button on the top right of the screen was designed so well so their user somehow want to see that notification keep dinging.
Twitter offered similar things. That satisfaction feeling when so many people retweet your tweet was so good. Gives you a sense that people listen to your thought, ideas, or whatever. Lol. (Btw my most retweeted tweet was rubbish).
This myspace thingy was popped up in my head when I scrolls steemit feed. There are so many content left without meaningful comments bellow it. The rewards were good though. (Sure, there are still plenty great steemians with great content and great comments too).
But is it enough? I don’t know. I just feel that with the steem price being so low, some users still doing abusive methods to milk the rewards pool, all that left from steem to thrive is the engagement. To have someone actually reads your stuff, and leaving thoughtful comments, it feels 1000 times better than get upvoted by whales. At least for me...
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I did have a few songs up on Myspace as a solo songwriter but I wasn't as big into it at the time. I am not convinced that blogging is a particularly good use case for the steem blockchain, blogging is kinda a dying (or at least, becoming super niche) internet form for old people, and the addition of money rewards almost seems to actually make things worse as far as the interactions that happen. (EDIT - I say, as an old person who likes blogging LOL)
EDIT part two wow myspace.com is still around, I found some of my old songs. They don't seem to play for me though
https://myspace.com/carlgileadnash/music/song/dumpster-burning-27577308-27378493
Somehow I believe blogging is still thriving. I still read a lot in Medium. For younger generation, maybe blogging should be shorter, more visuals, more like tiktok video.
Yeah, I aggree, blogging maybe not the best use of a blockchain technology. Gaming is (IMO).
But the idea of tribes is good. I like that. As long as people use it for meaningful interaction and not just about the rewards. Having good rewards is great ofc, but having meaningful interaction, i think that's the real value. And then come the question, is steem a blockchain platform, or a blogging platform? Haha.
I'm not techy enough to grasp the whole idea of this platform. Turns out I just love to read content by real people from different parts of the globe.
As for myspace.. ah, I just realize that my songs were also unplayable too. Perhaps they deleted our files, but keep the database. LOL.
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oh my..i remember myspace, does that make me old..not only that but i remember orkut too....gosh..how come they never made it and facebook did!!!