10 Reasons MySpace Was The Best Social Network Ever

By Samuel Clements /

1. It Was Truly Personal

Personalisation endowed MySpace users with a sense of maturity, but it also endowed them with sense of distinctiveness. To have picked a theme that suited you, chosen a profile picture showing the best version of you, and then found a song that you wanted to use to show others what you liked, well, it was incredible. You were unique in a world of uniformity, and while it was only a small component of MySpace, it felt massive. An inherent part of being a teenager is constantly reinventing yourself, trying to find your identity and let it shine through; MySpace was incredible in catering to this niche in the market: you could have almost any theme you wanted, and could change it at the click of a button. Facebook€™s monotony is its strength, as there is a sense of standardisation to it, but MySpace€™s chaotic free range was far more fun. Individuality is always positive, and MySpace€™s ability to grant you this freedom was something that could be immensely successful if Facebook adopted a similar system. So there we have it, MySpace not only had many of the features of Facebook now, it had features that would vastly improve Facebook. MySpace is a different place now, but if it were to be reverted back to its original format people would migrate in their thousands- MySpace was, quite simply, the best social network.