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In the original MySpace you could go on and search everyone by gender, country, and age. And when you did your search you'd have active users near the top of that list. It was the best search feature ever. Facebook doesn't even have that in 2024. That's how I met most of my friends on there.
But on SpaceHey it's next to impossible to meet people. Unlike the old days you've got 2 major communities here - teenagers from Discord or wherever, and 30+ year old people who used the original MySpace - who don't want anything to do with each other. That's never going to change. It's the way things are now. So you need a search like that more than ever when you've got a divided community like that.
I'd really like to get off Facebook and onto a site like this one. I want to like SpaceHey. But as it is, I look for people to talk to and everyone is either inactive or they're like 12, and after a week or so I give up. That's the typical user experience here. Yeah I could convince people I know irl to join, but then I've got a few rl friends on here and that's it, and in the end I'm just doing the same shit I do on Facebook.
1 million users. How many users of that 1 million have logged on in the past week? idk if this site is still being worked on but without advanced search it will never have a significant, active community.
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Reply by NosyCat
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Sounds like a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Back then people didn't yet realize how bad it was. Now we have no excuse.
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Reply by Vicky
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It wasn't as bad because on the old school internet no-one shared any real, specific info about themselves unless it was work related. You'd get an account somewhere, like MySpace, and the only info MySpace would have on you is maybe some Yahoo account that might not even have been your main. You could get an e-mail account anywhere in like 5 minutes and all e-mail accounts were considered to be valid, unlike today where you need a verified gmail account or something to get onto a lot of sites.
This 'We need your phone number to open an account and you're expected to use your government name' stuff only really started with Facebook.
SpaceHey is the old way. You don't need to give up anything to get an account here.
My age, nationality and gender with no other relevant info doesn't give away anything that people can use. Google and Facebook have probably shared far more than that about most of their users.
Reply by Wiggnorant Poser
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Absolutely, SpaceHey definitely needs an advanced search or a tagging system. Something that lets users list their hobbies and interests in their profiles with tags, and then matches them with others who share similar interests. This would make it much easier to connect with people and have more meaningful conversations.
As for the privacy concerns, I don’t quite understand them. SpaceHey only knows what I’ve personally shared—it’s not like Facebook, which collects your data like a kraken. There’s no hidden data being scooped up behind the scenes, so there’s nothing to leak that isn’t already public.
Reply by Gahbi
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I didn't get the opportunity to experience the og myspace so i didn't even know this was a feature, i think it would be amazing to have this here
Reply by Seal42
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Agreed, we need an advanced search feature for age at the very least. I’m in my forties and want to chat with folks that have a similar level of maturity, not kids.