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how myspace was?

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i never got to experience the myspace glory days because i was a kid on that era, all i know about myspace is that there was a lot of alt people there, and that you could customize your profile (thats why i got so interested in it, no modern social media allows it). so i wanted to know from people here who were on myspace: how it was? there was a lot of online drama and toxicity like current social media have? was it better or worse than modern social plataforms? and is spacehey an "accurate" recreation of myspace?

i'm really curious to know because, by what a lot people talk about it online, it seemed that myspace was a lot more positive, simple and more fun that current social media like twitter, instagram and tiktok are, but it could be just nostalgia talking, so i wanted to know more. 


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oh, thats interesting. here in brazil we also kinda also had our own myspace, it was a site called orkut (wich was not brazillian but became really popular here for some reason), wich was like, THE default brazilian social media in the mid-late 2000s, it was very similar to myspace, you could talk to other people, play games, join online groups (wich were called communities in orkut), and it also had buddypoke, the only difference is that it didnt had profile costumization like myspace, only a profile photo and some information about yourself. one really specific thing i remember about orkut is that it was really popular to create fake profiles and interact with other fake profiles, it was a whole thing. and like myspace, it started to lose users to facebook in the 2010s and it got shut down in 2014. i remember getting really shocked when i discovered that orkut was only popular in brazil, i tought that everyone everywhere was using it lol

i was a kid during orkut, so i only used it to play the games, but a lot of people say that they miss it because it was a more simple and innocent than todays social media.


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