Blog entry recovered from MySpace archive, first published Tuesday May 09, 2006.
MySpace's new parochialism
I don't like this newly parochial style that MySpace has adopted. The UK contingent has grown to such an extent that we're now ring-fenced. All the stuff we're actively fed (product ads - which I ignore, band ads, cool people, etc.) are all filtered for UK consumption. Ok, from a techy point of view it makes sense to have geograhically clustered technology, and I can't fault them for taking the first step along that route, especially as the whole lot has been creaking unhealthily under the load for well over aweek now. But just because the hardware serves particular locations doesn't mean the content has to. I want to know what's going on in the global community, not my own isolated backwater. The site was much more interesting when it threw up random nuggets from all around the world. This segregation is the first step towards an internal "us and them" mentality, which to date has been thankfully scarce on MySpace unlike some online communities.
