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MySpace - you've lost me, and it's your own fault

Shortened link to this page if you need it - http://goo.gl/0UMA7 or on twitter feel free to retweet me instead I often make posts about music on social networking services and I was looking for a service I could use to keep all my music posts together and give me some flexibiility to cross-post to more public generic streams on the likes of twitter and facebook when I wanted to. After a while of not properly using it, MySpace, which came from a background of allowing people to connect with bands, seemed like an obvious choice especially since I knew they'd done some work on revamping the site recently including the links with Facebook Connect . The other reason why I was keen to restart using MySpace is that instead of 'friending' many artists' accounts on facebook, where I'm quite strict on accepting friends, doing it on a different systems makes more sense from a privacy perspective (As an aside, I always thought it would be quite cool if they'd tie up with We