I Think The Hype Died
Back in my day…
The year was 2003. I was 15 and mostly private… except with my friends. I was IM-ing my friends while juggling homework and chores. I was a good kid. Never got into chat rooms to engage in conversation with strangers and whatnot. Then my friends told me about this website: MySpace. Essentially, all my friends told me that’s where all the kewl kids hang. You can customize your space to fit your personality… just don’t be weird, right?
I remember being able to modify ANYTHING about my profile by learning and using CODING.
Before I even knew the significance of coding or even just how essential it would be in the future to dominate this skill, I was able to use it like it was finger painting.
Fast-forward to Today…
If only I’d known how beneficial it is to master this skill, I would have kept at it in anyway I could. Unfortunately, us teens thought it was only cool if we were showing off. Some of us didn’t really care for our future.
At the start of the summer, I found something so ideal that I figured it’d make a huge comeback and I just had to be a part of that. Someone brought back MySpace! No, not the current shell-of-its-former-self MySpace; the old-school one. It’s not just one website, by the way. There’s a couple. The one I use is called SpaceHey. You can code your background, add background music from a YouTube video, keep a blog, post on a forum, and even post on your friends’ pages. I haven’t seen a Top 8 section, but that’s fine. I don’t have a lot of friends on there anyway.
After All That Hype…
I tried keeping up with it throughout the summer, but just like with Medium… I’m a mom. I don’t have time for anything anymore. Still, I had a surge of profile views… and then throughout the summer, they started dropping.
Was SpaceHey just all hype? What do you think?
