Comments on: Goodbye Tom. We Hardly Knew Ye

By: sxfranklin

sxfranklin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:41:11 +0000

MySpace is dead. Long live MySpace!

By: Pinky

Pinky — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:00 +0000

Nine, but who’s counting? And I certainly don’t believe it’s a coincidence. Had I not been sunning in Cabo at the time of this blog post, I would have tied Tom’s departure in with Van Natta’s, the unceremonious removal of the official tagline, “a place for friends,” and an in-class interview we had with an artist boasting over 20,000 friends on MySpace that has recently seen a landslide of movement away from MySpace and toward his facebook account… but the semester is young and I had a tan to catch. Stay tuned.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:48:44 +0000

And ta-freakin-da, Owen Van Natta steps down too

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=142046

What was that….like 6 months???

By: kyriakos

kyriakos — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:26:31 +0000

myspace is still very important to musicians and artists in general

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:43:59 +0000

I always wondered if Tom was a real dude . Myspace was a good stepping stone for social networking. I do still like Myspace for music promotion, but i’m noticing some better places on the web like reverbnation for music promotion. There can only be improvements. It’s great time to be a musician with all these promotional tools.

By: 1capecoral

1capecoral — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:12:39 +0000

Tom who?

By: J Horne

J Horne — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:57:21 +0000

I knew him.

By: Keith Mohr

Keith Mohr — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:07:59 +0000

There is a God,my prayers have been answered.
Good bye MySpace and good riddance!

By: James A Woods

James A Woods — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:08:52 +0000

I echo Danny Brown’s comment. You’re absolutely spot on about the connections. I used to have a profile on MySpace, but left because I got tired of all the solicitations from pornographers. Now, I only visit the network if I’m wanting to listen to free music; there’s no connecting going on at all.

By: Danny Brown

Danny Brown — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0000

You hit the nail on the head with this:

“…but he represents something MySpace can never have back. Relationships. Real live, living, breathing people online looking to connect with each other. And Tom was at the top of the list.”

If social networking and social media is all about the relationships (even the relationships to the sale), then losing your best salesperson is commercial suicide.

I don’t know the last time I logged into MySpace but it does indeed look like a cultural wasteland. Shame – it could have been so much more. That’s Murdoch for you.