10 Reasons MySpace Was The Best Social Network Ever

5. It Was Mature

MySpace gave every teenager the facade of maturity when handing out their MySpace address; at a party you€™d always feel far more grown up to request that someone add you on MySpace rather than getting a phone number (or having to risk the embarrassment of trying to add someone on MSN). Unlike your peers who had stayed with Piczo (the site that enabled you to create an entire website), MySpace marked you as different. You were an adult on MySpace, not some child toying around on the internet. MySpace gave you a space where you could show your maturity, although in hindsight immaturity is probably a more fitting description. MySpace gave an almost unprecedented level of personalisation to social networks; even now Facebook retains is blue and white motif, whereas MySpace started off with this theme but gave you the opportunity to make endless changes to your space, so that it would feel like you owned it. This personalisation inferred a level of maturity which is priceless as a teenage seeking an identity in this world. Social networking does not make you a grown up, but as a teenager it sure did make you feel like an adult. The potential negative repercussions of these Internet relationships is obvious (and it remains important to never trust what someone says on the internet), but MySpace was the place where teens could grow up. Adulthood seemed around the corner when you were grown up enough to make your stamp on the Internet world.