A few months ago I tried to con­vince myself that Vox could replace MySpace, but I think I secretly knew that it couldn’t. It was just too ugly and too dif­fi­cult to use.

But, this time, I believe, I really believe, Virb can do it.

MySpace is loud, ugly, buggy, (flash-)ad-ridden, and owned by Fox. Virb is none of these things, but dupli­cates nearly all of MySpace’s func­tion­al­ity, being:

• Eas­ily find and add friends
• Band pages (with music)
• Comments/shoutbox
• Upload pho­tos
• Create/join groups
• Blog
• Friends-only pro­file setting
• Full CSS and HTML control

It even offers some amaz­ing things that MySpace does not, being:

• Turn off cus­tomiza­tion on a profile-by-profile basis
• Feed any RSS feed into your blog (planned)
• Inte­grate seam­lessly with Flickr
• Text-only Google AdWords ads

Plus, it’s just pretty and easy to use. Try it, try it, and add me as a friend.

I just hate MySpace so, much.