I must admit - every once and I while I do go on MySpace, mainly because a good half of my friends are what we’d call mildly obsessed, or maybe in love, with MySpace. Now those who know me know that I’ve been against MySpace since the beginning, and I’ve probably deleted your profile a good couple of times back in the day when I did that sort of stuff (which I don’t anymore, so if your MySpace is deleted it wasn’t me), which is why it feels so good now to watch MySpace squirm.

MySpace was doomed from the start, of course - just like everything else marketed towards teenagers, especially a breed as fickle as teenage girls, it was obviously just a phase, destined to die a slow and painful death as it went out of fashion. Well I’ve been waiting eagerly for that day, and as I see 99.9% of all my MySpace friends jump over to ride the Facebook (note: an actual good social networking site) train, I love signing into new little notes from Tom (who is the biggest douchebag this side of the Milky Way, but I digress) signaling all these “new and exciting features” that wouldn’t be more blatantly ripped off from Facebook if they had a giant tattoo on them exclaiming it.

The problem is that this will never work. Facebook was componentized for these new features from the start, offering developers a common API to extend it with. I find some of the applications these developers create quite honestly horrendous - but as long as I get to look at “Mary Johanson”’s Facebook page and not “KuTe LiTtLe Ir1sH B#!TCH”’s and have horrible rap music blared at me, I’ll take it all in good stride.