I’m sure many of you MySpacers out there, including myself, have signed up for a Facebook account over the last year and are using it more often than MySpace. I was personally tired of the slow page loads among other usability issues. Not using my MySpace account very often over the last few months I only recently realized that MySpace released Profile 2.0 in mid-November. It seems that most of the feedback I’ve been reading about has been negative. I, however, am a huge fan. Stan Schroeder at Mashable mentions some of the new features …
As far as new features go, the new profile should above all bring speed and better privacy options. New profiles are optimized better and should load faster than the old ones. Furthermore, if the user isn’t satisfied with load times of their MySpace page, he or she can hide certain sections of the site or optimize individual modules to display less items: 5 comments instead of 10, for example.
I’m really just all about the fast page load. That alone would get me to switch to Profile 2.0.
I can’t forget to mention that your MySpace page will still be fully customizable in Profile 2.0. Going about that might take a little patience and exploring, but once you get it, you’ll never want to go back to Profile 1.0. And a few minor, but notable features I like are the ability to preview your changes before publishing your page and the fact that it’s fully W3C compliant.
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Well, i did find one really obnoxious glitch in the whole upgrade bang that myspace had.
Older accounts have a hard time switching.
My husband and I have both been a part of myspace from the begining and before the huge blow up of the site.
Now we wanted to switch to this new 2.0 sleek upgrade and it will not allow us to.
We click the upgrade button..it appears as if we are upgrading and then it refreshing back to the original page asking us to upgrade. Weeks and weeks we have been trying. And apparently i am not the only one with this issue. We have tried on multiple computers and in multiple updated browsers. Apparently people that signed up before 2007 are having these issues. Its a shame myspace tech support isnt too strong because they dont address the problem, and they return your help form with a generic reply that doesn’t pertain whatsoever to the problem. Shame. I wish they would fix it.