Sympathies, mate. I’m still gonna remain a member of the club that you helped create the software/web pages for.

You’ll get involved in the next big thing sooner or later… tweet me when you do, and if I think it’s good, I might join that one as well.

Steve

Do I need to make a *disclosure* here that I am a “spacer” ?? well, I have now. I joined in Oct 2003 when it was still in beta stage with only 500,000 members. Even though it’s not something I do quite as often now (add-me and messages backlog) it’s still something I browse few hours a week.

I’m remaining loyal to it, even though it’s owned by Murdoch’s NewsCorp. At the time I commented to friends that this will make a difference sooner or later (but we didn’t know how. certainly FB wasn’t an issue at the time) he’s made his money back on the purchase so probably doesn’t really notice – it’s a little backwater… The problem is, the reduced ad-revenue doesn’t help across the board but then neither did over-hiring of staff when the going was good.

How can you offer incentives for something that is already free? – I guess this question applies just as much to the other pages as well.

The people MySpace will let go have had a great opportunity to work with a very important company learning very valuable skills that most people getting unemployed will never have. I would imagine they will get snapped up very fast, especially compared to the everage Joe.

Since being terminated is very likely not a personal performance issue under current economic conditions, there is little cause to take it personally, or as an measure of one’s value.

So, try to go through the grief cycle as fast as you can so you can get back to enjoying life at a new job, where maybe you will be the VP.

Blessings…

We worked hard to build a strong healthy business and in our country we have remarkable growth. So seeing layoff announcements made as if real people are not affected is f’n insensitive.

Hope you are never at the receiving end cos its no fun.