Now you know if you read my blog reg­u­larly that I don’t have the higest respect for Myspace.  I have been using Myspace more and the issues of it’s flaw just become more glar­ing with me over time.
Issues:

1.  There is no method for sav­ing e-mails.   None, other then copy and paste — which is a huge pain in the ass.   While I do have the first snip­pet saved in a gmail noti­fi­ca­tion I would pre­fer to have the whole mes­sage saved off and archiving.

2.  After two weeks it deletes your sent mes­sages — WTF?  Why can’t I decide to clean out my inbox — if you want to clean them out why don’t you give me the option to auto­mat­i­cally export a copy out for myself in my home e-mail account?

3.  Noti­fi­ca­tions — the­o­ret­i­cally it wouldn’t take much more band­width to send me the whole mes­sage — I have no prob­lem log­ging into your site to reply to email — but send me the com­plete email and not the first 140 characters.

I under­stand e-mail is not a pri­or­ity for them, and not a focus of the site.  I under­stand they are a walled gar­den.  Dammit though, with the user base some inter­op­er­abil­ity with their e-mail would be nice.

I hate you Myspace.

  • Fred W
    I visit myspace so infrequently now. I just lacks the features I like elsewhere.
  • I completely agree - the problem is the people that I can't find anywhere else - in and of itself I loath myspace - I can't turn some people around that it's not what the "Internet" is.

    It's a sign of the technological divide.
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