[InternetUser]

MySpace is holding on to users' profiles? When was the last time you went to a Myspace page? There might still be an active page with that user's name, but several years ago, there was a massive MySpace re-design and overhaul that totally wiped out (at least from public view) HTML customizations of profiles (which MySpace became famous for), embedded music widgets, the entire "About Me" sidebar on the left (where people listed all their favorite stuff, and personal info), the comments (in the comment sidebar that was on the right), blog posts (in the blog section), and countless photos and photo albums, seemingly just saving the profile picture and then some photos that were NOT put into albums. I know that because I went back to a list of MySpace links I had bookmarked from 2006 to 2009 and they are just about all useless.

Celebrity tweets aside, people generally make that sweeping overestimation about the permanence (or at least the public discoverability of) such stuff; as for Facebook itself, users have deleted tons of photos and even their own entire profiles, and typically it's the most interesting (juicy) stuff, e.g. when a girl is going through college and deletes slutty and mischievous pictures of herself from earlier years and parties and relationships.

(Side-note: you spelled "loses" as "looses," one of the most common spelling mistakes.)

[vidarh]

Myspace were holding on to a bunch of data after the redesign you mention, but they recently had a massive further data loss:

https://mashable.com/article/myspace-data-loss/

[dajohnson89]

sometimes I wonder if senior employees/executives nerf a product and then start a business that fills the void.