How Does Everyone Like The New Myspace?

Well, I should ask if anyone is still using the old Myspace.  I still do, if only because I still play Mafia Wars, don't judge.  I use(d) Myspace to be "friends" with these college chicks who posed for Playboy, and then I expanded it to include porn stars.  It was strictly females only until, for some odd reason, I friended Ashton Kutcher.  Again, don't judge.

There has been no activity I have seen from guys I'm connected with.  Facebook clearly dusted Myspace years ago.  Yet it's still stuck around, and last week was their long-overdue overhaul.  Justin Timberlake, of all people, relaunched Myspace as a "music discovery" site and planted his long-awaited return to music, the single "Suit & Tie," as the first piece of music to be discovered on Myspace.

And you know what?  I still haven't listened to it yet.  Why?  Because when I first tried to login it didn't recognize my password, the same password I have used since I signed up for Myspace lo those many years ago.  I tried the next day, but it didn't work.  I was ready to ditch the ex-social networking site, but on a whim I looked again.  Apparently there was either a bug Myspace IT discovered or there was enough of an outcry by the dozens of people who still use it that on the splash page there is now a link that directs you to the old Myspace, the one you know and love.  And I logged in there just fine.

I don't remember how, but I did get into the new Myspace, and it's ... uncomfortable.  I see none of my Myspace friends; according to the site, I have no one I'm connected to.  The status updates are gone, as are the games like Mafia Wars.  It's replaced with, I assume because I haven't used it yet, ways to see showcased music artists that are "about to break through."  So the new Myspace has basically become a visualized form of Napster?  Mr. SexyBack, that's not how I find new music.  Pass.

And it looks like others are pooh-poohing the new version as well.  I have a feeling that the new Myspace is being received as well as New Coke.  And I liked New Coke!  For all its obsolescence, there are still enough fans who like it for its humble, limited joys.  Can't say I blame them, but I can't blame Timberlake for trying to find something new to do with a web company that News Corp. had to take a $500+ million loss from.  Now let's see if Myspace successfully completes this change, survives in its old form, or dies out.

Has anyone tried the new Myspace?  If so, what do you think?