How MySpace Blew It

But when it comes to bands, it's absolutely de rigeur. So much so that my band has one out of necessity, and even though we, five curmudgeons with our own site, with a full music spread from bandcamp.com, and everything else you could want, who do everything we can to ignore our Myspace and keep it quarantined—still more people google 'Flaming Tusk Myspace' than anything else.

5. Allowed itself to be branded as the Urinal of the Internet. Made it so all the tech early adopters that everyone else takes the lead from avoided it like crazy in favor of cleaner, better structured sites like Facebook.

I spent many hours convincing friends and family to close their MySpace accounts.