Gen Z Has Created Its Own Version of MySpace

MySpace is back! … Sort of.

Gen Z has started a new version of the popular social media app that defined the millennial generation - with a bit of a twist.

Not one to miss out on all the nostalgia buzz of having a "Top Friends" list, the new social media platform called ‘NoSpace’ is launching with similar features. The app is geared toward Gen Z - and the hype alone has been a success with a waiting list of over 380,000! 

What separates NoSpace from Instagram, Meta Facebook, Twitter X and the other juggernaut platforms will be a focus away from relying on an algorithm, and rather more ‘real connections and interactions.' 

NoSpace is a new social media app geared toward millennials. 

MYSPACE 2.0

"All these other apps these days, it’s just algorithmic. A lot of posts just get pushed down if you don’t get engagement… What I see right now is all social media is just media, it’s not social anymore," NoSpace creator Tiffany Zhong told Bustle. "Everyone is ogling at each other’s lives and personalities, but no one is engaging with them."

The 27-year-old Zhong says she spent nearly a decade studying Gen Z social media habits and algorithms and came up with the idea of bringing the MySpace-adjacent app back as frustrations continue to mount with the other Big Tech social platforms. 

"That’s the problem we’re solving - connection with others and self-expression," Zhong added. The NoSpace app is in beta mode and slowly being rolled out as the waiting line continues to grow.

MySpace defined a generation - now Gen Z wants theirs as well! (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

MYSPACE WAS MASSIVE IN THE MID-LATE 2000'S

Elder MySpace users will see some similarities between the two apps, including a Top 8 friend group that was all the drama back in high school when someone would replace a buddy with someone else. (The amount of arguments and fights that started was honestly absurd back then.)

NoSpace users will have customizable and personal profile pages that won't rely on "Likes" or "Retweets," in order to boost the algorithm, but rather they will use something we've all been beginning Instagram to bring back - a chronological timeline! Users will also be able to add what they're watching, listening to, interests, hobbies and more on their profile pages in an attempt to get people to have more of a connection than just liking people's photos.

"Loneliness is increasing for a variety of reasons. We don’t have as much to talk about with our IRL friends anymore, because everyone watches different content. It’s not like we have the same Sunday shows, or the same shows that drop the same episodes every week," Zhong continued. 

It'll be interesting to see if Zhong will be able to withstand the Big Tech power players that she's without a doubt going to stir up with NoSpace. But if we're being honest - this is their own fault. For years, people like Mark Zuckerberg have been warned about relying on and incorporating an algorithm. It appears that the younger generation has had enough of it. 

NoSpace is registering people and is scheduled to fully launch this summer.