Bullshit. Go ask a twelve year old who's going to start creating their online persona this year what Myspace is. They won't know what you're talking about.

Then their eighteen year old brother will flick them in the ear and call them a loser and a noob and they'll quickly learn.

Lucky teenagers don't revolt anything their older peers tell them as fact ;)

When you were 12 years old, did you go out of your way to tell your parents/brother that you had a myspace?

MySpace was an exclusive club for "99-year old girls" to fawn over their favorite bands, or for older boys boys to post pictures of "hot babes" to impress others in their age group.

I'm not sure it ever matured from there.

That seems like a problem too, though.

Meh, the kids won't care. If some popular people use it because it's way more fun and exciting than shitty old Facebook, (plus they hear the odd story about how fun the old MySpace was) then it could get it's foot in the door.

Judging by displayed design, it definitely feels more fresh than Facebook and Twitter. I see strong influence of Microsoft's metro design language as well...

History has some examples of legacy brands being revived. Mini, Hush Puppies, Pabst Blue Ribbon are some of the known examples. Forever and never is a really long time.

Being on the edge but akin to old school is actually valued in music subculture. So while Facebook becomes a tired commodity, MySpace does have a shot in getting back as a 'true skool' brand for a music social network. Think of hip crowd looking back at the 80s and 90s for inspiration.

soon it will have retro caché

I think this is actually possible. Aren't we all tired of Facebook and twitter, and waiting for the next big thing?

Like an aol.com email address?

That would be ironic hipster cache.

I lol'd