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It still attracted a fair share of role players even long after the decline began, since the site was friendlier toward and more suited for [=RPing=] than Facebook (which, despite playing host to a small community of [=RPers=], still tends to delete RP profiles when bought to their attention; in contrast, [=MySpace=] didn't seem to care). But even then, by early 2011 most of them had [[TakeAThirdOption flocked to other sites]] like Roleplayer.me and [=OneWorldRolePlay=], which more closely resemble the [=MySpace=] of 2006 and even support the same 1.0 profile layouts. The related CharacterBlog community was then inherited by Platform/{{Tumblr}} and Platform/{{Twitter}}.

It was the most popular site around in the [[TurnOfTheMillennium mid-2000s]], and is arguably the primary vehicle for the rise of social networking in general, but despite its once-explosive popularity, the site has dwindled down to a barren wasteland as fickle users have almost completely abandoned it for its competitor, Website/{{Facebook}}. Long gone are the days when Tom Anderson, founder and practically the mascot of [=MySpace=], would automatically add new users. In fact, he was fired from the company in 2009. After a change in management in 2010, it attempted to [[ReTool reinvent itself]] as "Social Entertainment", with more of an emphasis on entertainment than social networking. It then massively overhauled its homepage and new profile layouts, changed its logo, and then attempted to force longtime users with original 1.0 profiles to upgrade. This was all done to try and attract more people to the site, which had steadily been losing traffic for a long time, though it ended up having the opposite effect, making its owners at the time, [[UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch News Corp.]], quite agitated.

It still attracted a fair share of role players even long after the decline began, since the site was friendlier toward and more suited for [=RPing=] than Facebook (which, despite playing host to a small community of [=RPers=], still tends to delete RP profiles when bought to their attention; in contrast, [=MySpace=] didn't seem to care). But even then, by early 2011 most of them had [[TakeAThirdOption flocked to other sites]] like Roleplayer.me and [=OneWorldRolePlay=], which more closely resemble the [=MySpace=] of 2006 and even support the same 1.0 profile layouts. The related CharacterBlog community was then inherited by Website/{{Tumblr}} and Website/{{Twitter}}.

* InterfaceScrew: While good profile designs ''do'' exist, bad profile designs (which have since been passed on to Website/{{Tumblr}} users) will exist as well. And when they do, [=MySpace=]'s site structure usually makes it so they will come off as this, as it allows potential profile builders to tinker a bit ''too much'' with the essential bits.

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* InterfaceScrew: While good profile designs ''do'' exist, SturgeonsLaw dictates that bad profile designs (which have since been passed on to Website/{{Tumblr}} users) will exist as well. And when they do, [=MySpace=]'s site structure usually makes it so they will come off as this, as it allows potential profile builders to tinker a bit ''too much'' with the essential bits.

Most of the remaining users weren't too happy about the changes, not just because of the [[InterfaceScrew messy new layout]] that slowed down many computers, but also because users were then spammed by friend requests by "celebrities" as part of their new WereStillRelevantDammit-style marketing approach. In December 2010 and for the next several months they allowed different celebrities to "hijack" the site in an effort to attract the celebrity's fans. After huge outcries of TheyChangedItNowItSucks, [=MySpace=] [[AuthorsSavingThrow agreed to allow users to get their 1.0 profiles back]] by "downgrading" (1.0 profiles always gave much more freedom to edit and personalize, when using the right layout codes, hence hardly anyone ever "upgraded" from them unless forced to). Some time after the site was sold they eventually did finally force the 3.0 upgrades on every profile, but by then there weren't very many people left to complain about it.