The End for MySpace?

When MySpace started in 2003 it became the relative market leader in social sites but over the past few years has lost it’s focus in my opinion form being the place to meet friends to serving the promotional needs of startup bands around the country and other unrelated options.  Now I don’t have a problem with this and I’m sure it has helped many groups sell more songs than they otherwise would have but I just think that original zest has gone. Here’s my top 5 reasons why MySpace is going downhill, brief but concise:

• Full of Spam users promoting external Webcam websites etc
• The new layout is slow and sucks (I don’t think it needs much of an explanation really)
• Emphasis on increasing your social world with forced ads on the homepage promoting mainly msuic for instance. It seems the user no longer has the control what they want to get from the social experience.
• A complicated option system for editing profiles and then editing accounts. Could be so much clearer!
• A cluttered interface with advertisements – one of the many things Facebook has done so well to prevent

So that’s it. Pretty simple really but my disappointment of MySpace led me to cancel my account and I’ve seen Facebook as the true leader.  Ok, Facebook isn’t perfect either, they recently undertook a visual revamp and some Facebook apps are spam machines but at least it stays simple to talk to your friends. Isn’t that what social networking is all about? Obviously there are other alternatives like Bebo and to a certain extent Twitter but are there any other big sites you class as fit for social interaction?  What is your opinion on the recent changes to MySpace in the last couple of years?