amassed lust

A great deal of people have written messages asking why I left MySpace.

To be honest with you I quite simply left for greener pastures and for once I can honestly say the grass really is greener on the Facebook side of the fence.

I’ve been a user of MySpace since nearly the beginning and had a great deal of friends with whom I communicated solely with through MySpace.

MySpace has a whole in the past two years has become nothing but an advertising platform for News Corporation and inundated with advertisements, a slow loading site, unreliable uptime and generally a place filled with stupidity.

Facebook has been pushing the envelope on innovation in the social networking department, has a more attractive and faster loading site, isn’t quite as bad with advertisements and organizes data in a way that MySpace has been slowly trying to emulate… and yet still failing at do so.

The change to Facebook wasn’t just a matter of the grass being greener but also for personal privacy reasons as well.

At a previous employer having MySpace was a requirement and a good way for people to get in touch with us. This also meant my profile which was previously private suddenly had a lot of people I didn’t know visiting it.

On Facebook I can control who sees what information. I realize that MySpace has been adding this feature but I still do have a bad taste in my mouth of what MySpace has become and where it is going.

MySpace constantly copies features from Facebook that are elegeant and destroys them in a way that only the MySpace team can imagine.

So yes, I’ve left MySpace for good. I won’t be updating my profile but I’ve decided to hang on to it so I can still check in with good friends every once in a while but I won’t be checking it often… if at all.