It may also have to do with the fact that the older Myspace generation lived in an era when it was understood that the internet was unstable and erratic - “cloud” data access was never taken as a guarantee and anything truly important deserves a local backup. Meanwhile, Facebook and Instagram went down for about a day and the hand-wringing was immediate. After all, there was a months-long gap between when Myspace told a Reddit user about the data loss and its making headlines (largely due to a post from OG weblog Boing Boing) - as bad as it is, the loss doesn’t really hinder any part of our daily lives. ![]() In an age when old tweets constantly resurface out of context and you can be canceled at a moment’s notice for anything you might have done at any point in your posting history, the obliteration of one’s Myspace history may come as a relief.Īnd as harsh as it is to say, Myspace, even has a historical artifact, doesn’t really matter anymore. Snapchat took off and Instagram Stories became popular for a reason - they let users make posts without worrying about adding skeletons to closets. One need only make a cursory scan of social-media chatter to see plenty of people expressing relief (jokingly and sincerely) that their Myspace histories had been obliterated. Myspace did none of these things, even though, even in its modern form, it almost certainly had the resources to do so.īut here’s the thing: Maybe it’s good that all of this stuff is gone. It should tell you proactively when there is a catastrophic screw-up. If the website is going to make your data inaccessible by, say, ceasing operation, they should give you advance warning and the option to export your data. They should be able to revert after something like a failed server migration. They usually create backups and redundancies spread across multiple server farms. The loss is bad because, generally speaking, big, mainstream data handlers like Myspace should be able to reliably store your data. Maybe this situation can be all of those things at once and I’m allowed to be a huge hypocrite about this. But, given recent digital trends and events, maybe it’s good? At the very least, the loss matters - but then, if I think about it a little more, maybe it doesn’t matter at all. ![]() On the one hand, this is catastrophically bad. Just in case you're wondering how it's going. There is no way to recover the lost data.” In an email a Reddit user received from Myspace, the website’s Data Privacy Officer informed them that, “Due to a server migration files were corrupted and unable to be transferred over to our updated site. Though Myspace has gone through years of decline, changes of ownership, and a site-wide reboot, it was assumed that the files users had uploaded would remain accessible. The popular website Boing Boing published a blog post over the weekend announcing that “Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 20.” The announcement was sourced from a Reddit thread originating from over a year ago lamenting the fact that old music files uploaded to the service had become unstreamable.
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