{"id":841,"date":"2010-11-26T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/841\/841\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:04:28","slug":"841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/841\/841\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the MySpace Party Over? BTR Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not one of those \u201cI\u2019M LEAVING MYSPACE\u201d blogs.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never understood those.\u00a0 It seems so permanent, and more than half the folks who write them end up continuing to hang around the site, commenting here or there, pimping or selling this or that but almost always continuing to note how bad MySpace is now and how lame everyone is for continuing to hang out here.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Umm\u2026 okay\u2026 As I\u2019ve read these \u201cleaving MySpace\u201d blogs in the past, a metaphor came to mind.\u00a0 If you were at a party, found it boring or tedious and not too thrilled with the other guests, would you stand up in the middle of the party and proclaim:\u00a0 \u2018THIS PARTY SUCKS!\u00a0 I\u2019M LEAVING!\u2019<\/strong> then, of course, hang out on the porch, stick your head in from time to time and say \u201cYES, I\u2019M LEAVING!\u00a0 THIS PARTY STILL SUCKS!\u201d<\/strong> That\u2019s what these grand pronouncements of departure have reminded me of.<\/p>\n

Even if you do decide to spend more time on Facebook or wherever, it\u2019s not like MySpace is another country or something that you have to take a train, a ferry and mule cart to get to.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got MySpace and Facebook bookmarked in my toolbar and it takes one click to go back and forth.<\/p>\n

Well, the party of MySpace has changed now to the point where I have to revise my metaphor.\u00a0 The party has been slowly dwindling for years.\u00a0 Most of the most interesting guests have departed, leaving a hard corps echelon of hangers on.\u00a0 That\u2019s been fine by me.\u00a0 Big fish in a small pond\u2026 and the pond has been shrinking even more\u2026wait.. Must not mix metaphors.<\/p>\n

With the new 3.0 format, the entire nature of the party has been radically changed.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if the folks holding the party have declared that we\u2019re now all mandated to play Twister, but everyone needs to be wearing a straightjacket at the same time.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if we all need to play Charades, but no gesturing is allowed.\u00a0 It\u2019s as if they\u2019ve put a movie on the big screen, pushed pause at the opening credits and left it that way.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I\u2019m still not leaving the party, but my opinion has certainly changed.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to look for other parties.\u00a0 Maybe the party itself is over.<\/p>\n

One possible place is a neat little new social network called FriendBurst.com\u2026\u00a0 Yeah, I know, kind of an odd name, but I really like the features of the site.\u00a0 I recommend you join.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also like to invite you to a BlogtalkRadio that another voice whose expressed some of these same opinions (TomDotCom) and I will be hosting this Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Joining us on air will be Kevin, one of the founders of FriendBurst and the face of the site.\u00a0 Do you think the other Tom or Mike Jones would get on the radio with little ol me and talk?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.\u00a0 (I am going to invite Mike Jones anyway)<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the URL for the show page:
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http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/joko\/2010\/11\/28\/the-myspace-3-point-oh-no-exodus-of-2010<\/a>
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\nHope to see you there!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a OLD video response to some old MySpace drama back from when I was as enthusiastic and optimistic about MySpace as I am now about FriendBurst.\u00a0\u00a0 I will give MySpace this: it rhymes to a lot better words than does FriendBurst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not one of those \u201cI\u2019M LEAVING MYSPACE\u201d blogs.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never understood those.\u00a0 It seems so permanent, and more than half the folks who write them end up continuing to hang around the site, commenting here or there, pimping or selling this or that but almost always continuing to note how bad MySpace is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[7,81,80,83,82],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-people","tag-friendburst-2","tag-joko","tag-myspace","tag-social-networks","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}