I turned to look back at myspace... and it turned into a pile of suck.
It's been a LONG time since I logged into myspace. But fortunately they don't care if you park an account there forever. First thing I notice is that you can now "connect through facebook". Which is like saying, we know that you have moved on and replaced us with facebook, but we are ok with the occasional booty call when you're bored.
It use to be that myspace was the best place on the internet to find out what shows were playing near you because every band that had either a name (even if it changed every other week) and a gig (even if it was in there mom's basement) had a myspace page. And by putting that show in there basement on their calendar for people to see it was searchable under shows near __. So although "Pollstar" had all of the big shows, myspace had ALL of the shows big and small. And often shows that barely made the Pollstar radar would only have the headliner and possibly another band listed, while that same bands myspace page would list the full line up. So after checking Pollstar for this summer's shows in Milwaukee and Chicago (which seem just ok for being two big cities, maybe I'm getting old) I thought: "Hey myspace is still alive because it's good for one thing MUSIC! Awesome! I'll go find all the good shows that aren't on Pollstar."....
Yeah... come to find out, not only does myspace suck at it's intended purpose, social content, it now sucks at music. I looked for shows in Milwaukee and it came up with 9. NINE SHOWS IN ALL OF MILWAUKEE IN THE NEXT 5 MONTHS?! You have got to be kidding me myspace. This is like a respected author with multiple degrees in a field of study going senile. But in the case of the Scientist/Doctor/Journalist respectable journals would stop publishing said author when he writes about alien abductions out of respect for him and their journal. Unfortunately no one can cut off myspace's access to the public through mainstream channels, because they are their own channel. I guess the only consolation is that many people like myself have gone so long without accessing their myspace accounts that they haven't seen it lapse into dementia.
I shouldn't have looked back. I should have moved on with found memories of my first social profile. (Geocities doesn't count since it was more of a one note website than a social profile)
