This is a look at the first truly huge social media platform MYSPACE which brought people across the globe together and set the stage for everything that followed like twitter, facebook and instagram.
This is an excellent look at the early days of social media. The film shows how and why the platform connected with millions across the globe and how it changed the world for better and worse. The film also shows how the site declined.
I was never on MYSPACE. I'm not on Facebook because I don't need to be that connected to nonsense. Going back to MYSPACE everyone as always told me I need to be connected but I spend enougt time on line so I don't need to lose what little time I have to keeping up with everyone else. Because I was never on the site I found much of this very interesting. This was a tale I was not fully aware of and this made the obessive nature of humanity much more understandable. There is a lot of information here and I want to revisit this film as soon as the festival crush of DOC NYC is over.
The one thing that I really dislike about the film is that the many of the users and big names from the site tend to say the exact same things over and over again. And it isn't that different people are saying the same thing its that the filmmakers let the dame people make the same point several times in the film.
If you can forgive the repetition this is a super film and worth a look.
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