"Digital Poltergeists: The Uncanny Return of MySpace's Top 8 in Social Media Hierarchies"

This week I discuss MySpace’s“Top 8” feature, and how current social media has unconsciously recreated its infamous friend-ranking system.

You remember MySpace, right? Who doesn’t? At one point, it was bigger than Google.com. I remember our tangible anxieties: the obsession over the layout that you thought nobody else had, the music you shared, the composition of whatever cool thing you think you did that day. But at the tip-top of that list? The near-constant “friends in a gladiator-style…