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Threads post: “MySpace wasn't better because we were younger.
it was better because nobody had figured out how to turn every human emotion into a fucking marketing funnel yet.”
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[–] 18 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

I didn't use MySpace, but I would imagine people saw others as people posting stuff on a community board, at that point. Instead of a detached voice inside their computer.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I forget how the boards on Myspace worked, but they definitely were there as I remember chatting on them with other freshmen before moving in to college. One of the people even ended up being a close friend and eventual room mate, and this wasn't a small school.

    Facebook started really taking off that fall of freshman year and I imagine most that socialization moved there by 07.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Less pedos too. They didn't know how to use computers, but the next generation was learning on Myspace

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I had some dude try to flirt with me on ezboard when I was 16. He offered to send a photo. My friend was with me when I got the photo and we just laughed. It was some dude probably in his 30s at least with a handlebar moustache.

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