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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.144.6.140
| Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 07:47 pm: | |
Does anyone know if MySpace is now defunct? All my various Myspaces and the links to the blogs there now seem to harve vanished, thus decimating my Weirdmonger Wheel... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.5.205
| Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 08:01 pm: | |
Des - I've not used MySpace for several years but I believe it underwent some sort of revamp a year or two ago. It's possible your links went missing then. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.144.6.140
| Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 08:05 pm: | |
Thanks, Mick. I've just found this relevant link: https://www.askmyspace.com/t5/Messages-Blogs-Feedback/Blogs/td-p/39639/page/2 The blogs were intact when I checked a month or two back. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.144.6.140
| Posted on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 08:13 pm: | |
This supports the view that nothing is permanent electronically. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.30.199.76
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 12:25 am: | |
Not only is nothing permanent, Des, but nothing lasts longer than a year or two. When I go to my bookshelf I don't find the books are suddenly just empty pages. Nor do I have to upgrade my bookcase every couple of years to stop the texts corrupting. Nor do I have to pay for a security system to stop people hacking into my books and turning the content to gibberish. Let's face it, the internet is shit designed for one purpose only: to make a smallish number of people very, very rich. In order for that to work, every part of it has to have built-in obsolescence. Nothing 'online' will still be here in five years' time, and neither will the machines used to put it there. Even storage devices have to be upgraded every couple of years. It's all fucking shit, that's the truth of the matter. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.5.205
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 12:28 am: | |
This message board has been here for more than five years, Joel... |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.144.6.140
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 08:43 am: | |
I think the MySpace situation reveals more than the normal entropy of on-line sites. MySpace was (is?) a big company in the Establishment, bought and sold, like Footsie companies. If one's blog material is not safe with such 'dependable' companies here one day gone the next, nothing is safe and I agree with Joel. The Pan Books of Horror are still on our shelves from the Sixties. And my self-published 'real-time reviews' in Lulu will still be here - unless deliberately thrown away - in centuries to come. |