myspace died

one of the things occupying my time has been reading the outraged myspace users when they looked for their blogs or photo albums or conversations only to find the new owners of the site took them offline with a simple message, they won't be back... they simply pulled the plug and sent millions of people down the drain... years of memories, meetings, communications, creativity, people's lives stored on the web, gone in a flash... the complaints are raw with emotion... couples who met on myspace and trusted the site to respect their space which included first messages, courtships, love letters... parents who made sites dedicated to their children, years of baby pictures gone... writers and photographers who trusted myspace to be their space on the web for their writings and photos and creativity... people who used myspace for business, sharing music and art and earning money via the web... it is so sad to read some of the stories...

what a failure the new owners of myspace will find if they do not allow the people who bought into "myspace" and trusted the servers with access to their files... at least let everyone download the photos and writing and lives they trusted to the old myspace... makes good business sense too, since millions of betrayed people will certainly not help your new site grow...

alas, some people who want to get into the business of social networking simply do not understand social networking...