New Jer-Z From Vh1's"I Love Money 3":
MySpace has lost much of its charm. (You know, slow response to bugs, lack of
listening to user suggested features, newly enforced "copyright restrictions",
etc.)
You're most welcome. :)
I think that it's the number of features, which most of were suggested, that has made MySpace, almost to cumbersome for many users that has had a far larger impact on a large users, is part of why many have left. Many of which users from Facebook, came over, and were nearly demanding in some ways that MySpace do to make MySpace, more like Facebook, so that they would have what they have on Facebook, and then could turn it against MySpace and claim that what MySpace has they stole from Facebook. Some have gone as far as to claim MySpace has duplicated every feature of Facebook. "The charm" if you will that was MySpace, was the original simplicity of the site, and the general navigation around MySpace overall.
The copyright restrictions aren't new, it's that MySpace, to avoid legal issues has done more to enforce better the copyrights of others. When I joined MySpace, in March of 2006, the rules about copyrights were there, but back then perhaps not as many people flaunted the copyright laws, and this is where MySpace, was called to task on the copyright matter. The matter of violating copyrights were always listed in the T of U, and that part hasn't been changed in the three plus years I've been here. Instead I think of merely deleting users over copyright violations, they seem to be more on deleting that, which violates the copyright laws.
If MySpace were to cut say some of the features, and dropped the applications, I wouldn't be surprised of those who started out early on, that have left, ended up returning. Yes many would leave, but then perhaps getting back to what made MySpace at the beginning would draw many back.
The CAPTCHA code which many have come to dislike was actually based off the fact that people wanted some way to help combat the high amounts of spam, and the massive number of porn bots that plagued MySpace back in 2006 to 2007. Has MySpace listened yes they have, and perhaps to well, which could account for some of the unhappiness with many users.
As to responding to bugs on MySpace, I have suspected long that many have been due to being pushed into adding so many features, and now look at things. MySpace, has started to farm out some of the old features, to add new ones, which I think has lead to the level of glitches increasing, just to satisfy as many different segments of users.
What really made MySpace, was the openness, networking (one of the two main concepts, behind MySpace's creation at it's start up) socializing, then the music, and blogging (what drew me here), and of course being able to create a page that was personalized.