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Myspace.com, internet phenomenon, is officially dead at the age of six. Born in 2003 as a spin of off Friendster, a group of programmers saw an opportunity and  ran with it. Since its inception, Myspace revolutionized social networking with it’s massive infrastructure ingrained with technological expertise, extensive bandwidth, and the ability to expand to the changing times. In July of 2005, merely two years after it’s birth, Myspace was purchased by Ruport Murdoch’s News Corporation for five hundred and eighty million dollars. The site reached it’s pinnacle point a year later, and has dramatically declined since.

The site leaves behind millions of users, who cling to its easy navigation and familiar methods of posting moods and bulletins. While many users have moved on to Facebook and Twitter, a large percentage have yet to come to terms with it’s departure. While the site continues to function on life support as activity is minimal, experts are not optimistic about it’s recovery.

I wrote this obituary initially as a joke, but also to alert tattoo artists that Myspace is indeed dead. Before you say anything–yes, TattooSnob has a Myspace page. Yes, writing this and maintaining a Myspace account may seem slightly hypocritical. Our intent is to utilize social media services that best suit our audience, and for whatever reason our professional tattoo artist audience hasn’t come to terms with the death of Myspace quite yet. I wish I could tell you why, but honestly I don’t know.

Thinking about moving on, but not sure where to go? I’ll make this easy: start with Facebook.

Facebook is to Myspace today as Myspace was to Friendster years ago. The site has all of the same features as Myspace that should appeal to a tattoo artist. You can upload your portfolio,  pick a URL (and use it as your portfolio site), give people updates about what you’re doing, receive messages instead of corresponding via email, and of course other users can leave you super awesome glitter comments! The only thing you can’t do is pick your top eight forty friends. Oh, shucks – right?

Now, I completely understand the lack of appeal of a Twitter page for a tattoo artist. Tweeting updates can be a pain in the ass and while the site allows you to update dedicated followers instantly, it is lacking in the big picture department. It doesn’t have a dedicated photo gallery to showcase tattoo work, and it definitely doesn’t show your contact information. Twitter is the efficiency social networking site–but if you’re really set on having an account there I do have one suggestion. Without too much effort one can set their Facebook account to automatically update their Twitter.

You’re probably reluctant, right? If for no other reason, do it for the kids. They’re trying to send you messages about getting tattooed, they want to know if you’ve ever met Kat Von D, and TattooSnob is trying to get an interview.

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Tags: Myspace, social networking

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