I was a teenager during it's heyday of the mid 00s. It was very much for alt crowd of emos/goths and individuality was the name of the game though it did become more normie as we got towards the end of the decade. No popular person had a myspace and would call you names if you did.
Facebook a few years later is all about proving how much a normie you are. Those same people would then make fun of you for not having a facebook.
At it's best it was infinitely better than FB. It was a wild and open experience with everyone designing their own unique profile pages in html, the celebrities on there interacted just like any other normie. You parents and grandparents weren't on there being out of touch, spreading their BS and judging people. Every underground subculture was represented but not in any named groups just cool people connecting with each other organically and once you found a few of them you liked you'd naturally find many more. Bands and musicians were ever present and their interaction felt more genuine than the PR company run marketing silos musician profiles on most socials are now. For an all too brief while it was amazing. When the Facebook exodus happened the world lost something great and the path to the enshitification of everything really began.
only because there was a culture of adding random people without the "who is this" "do i know you" question.
you could add random people and make new friends without it being awkward.
facebook had a different culture it was all about people you knew and not people you wanted to get to know, so no one added random people and it didn't have profile customization which was lame as shit.
I was a teenager during it's heyday of the mid 00s. It was very much for alt crowd of emos/goths and individuality was the name of the game though it did become more normie as we got towards the end of the decade. No popular person had a myspace and would call you names if you did.
Facebook a few years later is all about proving how much a normie you are. Those same people would then make fun of you for not having a facebook.
good for pussying hunting randos
At it's best it was infinitely better than FB. It was a wild and open experience with everyone designing their own unique profile pages in html, the celebrities on there interacted just like any other normie. You parents and grandparents weren't on there being out of touch, spreading their BS and judging people. Every underground subculture was represented but not in any named groups just cool people connecting with each other organically and once you found a few of them you liked you'd naturally find many more. Bands and musicians were ever present and their interaction felt more genuine than the PR company run marketing silos musician profiles on most socials are now. For an all too brief while it was amazing. When the Facebook exodus happened the world lost something great and the path to the enshitification of everything really began.
only because there was a culture of adding random people without the "who is this" "do i know you" question.
you could add random people and make new friends without it being awkward.
facebook had a different culture it was all about people you knew and not people you wanted to get to know, so no one added random people and it didn't have profile customization which was lame as shit.
facebook was a downgrade from myspace.
My barber told me his baby mama said she was pregnant and he was the daddy over myspace.