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I actually always thought that the mid-aughts trend of putting "My" in front of everything to make it feel personalized was really bizarre, considering that you weren't ever the person labeling it that. Some developer or marketer you never met named it that. It always annoyed me when my icons started getting relabeled with names that a boomer grandpa might put on them, felt really pandery. Prior to the "My" trend, "My Computer" was just "Computer".
Tho MySpace has never been space