Every year someone writes a eulogy for MySpace, and every year a few hundred thousand people search for a way to get it back. Not the clunky 2006 site, exactly. The feeling: a page that was yours, a song that played when someone opened it, a Top 8 you agonized over, and a feed that was your friends and nothing else.
This is an honest look at what people are actually missing, what's out there today, and what we built POINT to do about it.
What people miss, specifically
Talk to anyone who was on MySpace and the nostalgia is never about the technology. It comes down to four things.
A page that belonged to you. Your profile was a room you decorated. Backgrounds, colors, fonts, glitter, broken HTML, whatever. Every modern network gives you one photo, one banner, and the same grey layout as everyone else.
Your song. A profile song told people who you were before they read a word. Nothing since has replaced it.
The Top 8. Social media today is built around counts: followers, likes, reach. MySpace's Top 8 was about ranking the people in your life. It caused drama precisely because it meant something.
A feed that was your friends. No ranking, no "suggested for you," no videos from strangers. When you logged in you saw what your friends had done, newest first.
Notice that none of these are hard to build. They were abandoned because they don't serve advertising. A personal page with a song doesn't generate ad impressions the way an infinite ranked feed does.
What's out there in 2026
Spacehey is the best-known MySpace revival. It is deliberately a recreation of 2006 MySpace, down to the layout and the HTML customization. If you want the exact look back, it delivers that, and it has a real community. The trade-off is that it is a museum by design: no apps, no modern media handling, and the aesthetic is the whole point.
Facebook still has your actual friends on it, which is its only remaining advantage. The feed is ranked, the profile is a template, and the business model is advertising to you based on everything you do.
Instagram, TikTok, X aren't trying to be your friends network and don't pretend to be. They're broadcast platforms with a ranked feed of mostly strangers.
Discord is great for groups but there's no profile page in the MySpace sense and no public identity.
What POINT does
We built POINT around the four things above, with 2026 expectations: phone apps, photos and video that don't look like 2006, privacy controls, and no advertising.
Your Space. Every member gets a page at yourpointspace.com/u/your-name. Pick a theme, a background, a font and an accent color. Arrange the blocks (about, song, interests, Top Friends, photos, albums, links) in the order you want, and decide for each block whether everyone can see it or only friends. There's no raw HTML, on purpose: the page always works on a phone and nobody can inject anything into it.
Your song. Paste a YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud or Apple Music link. The player sits on your Space. We never host the audio, so there's no rights mess, and the artist gets paid like any other play.
Top Friends. Pick up to eight. The order is the order on your page. If you haven't picked eight, your newest friends fill in until you do, so nobody stares at empty slots.
Your feed is your friends. Home shows posts from your friends and the groups you're in, newest first. There is no ranking at all. Nobody can pay to be in your feed, and you can't pay to be in anyone else's.
No ads, no data sales. POINT runs on optional memberships. The free account is the real product. POINT+ adds premium themes, backgrounds, fonts and analytics for people who want their Space to look exactly like them. Creator and Business memberships add followers and tools for people with an audience. None of it affects reach.
Where POINT and old MySpace differ
A few things we deliberately left behind.
No HTML injection. MySpace pages were customizable because you could paste arbitrary code. That's also why they were a security disaster and broke on every screen. POINT gives you the same creative range through choices that always render correctly.
Friends-only by default. Posts go to friends unless you flip them to public. In 2006 everything was public and that aged badly for a lot of people.
Real privacy controls. Your whole Space can be friends-only, or individual blocks can be. Your birthday shows month and day to friends, never the year, and you can turn it off.
Groups and events. MySpace had groups as an afterthought. On POINT a group for your gym, car club or team has its own page, posts and events with RSVPs.
Is it for you?
If what you miss is the look of 2006, Spacehey will scratch that itch better. If what you miss is the feeling, a page that's yours, a song, a Top 8, and a feed of people you actually know, that's what POINT is, built for the phone in your pocket.
It's free. Your page is two minutes away.