I'm eternally grateful that the social media network that I was part of throughout my teenage years abruptly disappeared from the internet, never to come back again.

Some say it was a technical failure during migration when the company was trying to pivot to file hosting, but it's impossible to verify.

Perhaps these bans are a blessing in disguise and future generations will be happy to not have their most awkward stage of life available forever, to everyone, in detail.

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beAbU 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you referring to MySpace?

My highschool band had tracks and videos of live performances in the school hall on there that is forever lost and I'm still bitter about it.

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joe_mamba 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How is MySpace even comparable to today's social media? AFAIK MySpace wasn't agoritmycally driven to keep you addicted like TikTok or Instagram do. MySpace was just you and your friends from school competing on whose page is the tackiest.

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Tade0 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am not referring to MySpace. It was a local-to-my-country social network which was outcompeted by another local-to-my-country social network, which in turn gave way to Facebook.

I was aware of the existence of MySpace at the time, but it never had mainstream adoption locally. We also had not one but two mainstream messaging apps and hardly anyone was using MSN.

Come to think of it, Facebook killed a lot of that homegrown tech.

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zppln 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Early Facebook was inferior to local social networks in many ways. The real killer feature was convincing people to de-anonymize themselves on the internet.

	▲	kjkjadksj 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Early facebook you weren’t really de anonymized like we consider today. For the simple fact that literally everyone you were friends with on that site were people you knew in real life. Yes you were “on the internet” but in this hyperlocal silo of real life connections entirely removed from the greater whole. That is until they opened the site to boomers and then advertisers chasing their money.

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stubish 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A couple of decades ago, a politically active family I knew was grooming their child to be a future Prime Minister. While the poor kid had amazing privilege that other kids could only dream of, one strict rule was no Facebook or similar. Not even appearing on friends feeds (friends in a similar social strata, so workable). They could see that nobody would be getting elected to positions of power with such a documented past. Now days you of course hire someone to maintain a fake profile.

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bnastic 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> technical failure during migration

Showing my age when the first thing that came to mind was ' but ma.gnolia was more of a social bookmarking...'