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It's weird to me when people bring up MySpace as a positive example.

MySpace gave people headaches. Pulling all the stops on CSS manipulation without any associated training on design, color, or style gave us precisely what we got: an often-unreadable mess that bordered on the physiologically unpleasant.

I think we have seen few recapitulations of that style of system today (in spite of the fact that the tools to allow it never vanished) because most people don't want it, end of story.



People may forget, but everybody was excited to switch from MySpace to Facebook almost exactly for this reason. It just felt cooler and more grown up.




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