I honestly liked MySpace. I think it was superior to Facebook in every way. At least you could enjoy some cool music on someone’s page when you visited it. The page was about them.

Remember how you could customize the css on your myspace? That would be unthinkable nowadays.

Yes it was less of a 'database' with a front end but more of a messy creative space you could put whatever you like on.

Then follow me on SpaceHey, MySpace reborn.

https://spacehey.com/josh

That's basically what Facebook was (though really it drew more from Friendster). As I remember it, the big appeal of Facebook over MySpace was that the interface was clean and that people felt like migrating from MySpace to The Facebook was a way of shedding their high school selves and reinventing how they presented themselves for college. So it was still loose but looked a bit more "adult." But they very much were viewed as doing the same thing.