scottieking Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 that is the QOTD.Personally I'm not currently involved, mostly for fact I fear anything else the internet can provide that will eat up anymore of my time. Plus it seems a little cult-like. Or as a full-time is that calling the kettle black?Detractors and supporters, weigh in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevO Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I'm confused and frightened by MySpace.. I don't get how every musician has suddenly gone and made a MySpace page in the past short while. What's the deal? Are their normal homepage's all broken? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 What's the deal? Are their normal homepage's all broken?For musicians, it's a good deal I'd think. For free, there's a music player, space to upload tracks for mulitple downloads, pictures, and a message board. I think this is all free. Normally this would cost money for design, bandwidth, upkeep, etc... Plus if all 'the kids' have a myspace page it's good cross-promotion if you get your name out there a little bit.i started up a myspace page cuz i was bored one night, you can definitely get sucked in but i never did. i don't really know why i have it but it's not doing any harm. i've found and been found by long-lost friends from university and highschool on there, so I guess having the page has paid off.i wouldn't recommend getting a page, but i wouldn't recommend against it either. ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 probably because myspace offers free (or a chance for) advertising for the band. It's known by everyone and they do polls for best band, shit like that. Either that or it's the same reason everyone follow's what everyone else does (think fads). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Definitely nay from this end. I thought it was a little odd in the past, then I saw a good friend of mine get in trouble at work when an anonymous tipster (actually an angry ex) tipped her employer off to some stuff that was on her MySpace Page. Since then I decided that e-mail is just plenty for me. Plus, much like scottieking, I waste plenty of time online as it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 that is the QOTD.Personally I'm not currently involved, mostly for fact I fear anything else the internet can provide that will eat up anymore of my time. Plus it seems a little cult-like. Or as a full-time is that calling the kettle black?Detractors and supporters, weigh in!The only thing I get a kick out of with Myspace is collecting friends...real ones...and of bands you're actually into. I hate the mass random friend requesting and accepting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 No myspace here. Don't see the purpose, nor do I feel a need to promote myself, I have a blog if I want to do that. Although in two years I've only posted half a dozen times to that thing.I frequent about four messageboards, thats more then enough for me and emails or phone calls are more the adequate for me to keep in touch with my friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I dig myspace. It's fun and if people I don't know in real life want to be "friends" with me, that's fine. No harm, no foul.Also, I have a compulsion to write sometimes and so it functions as a blog site. Saves you people from reading my maniacal ramblings here.Further, there are some crazy blogs out there, some quite enetrtaining. I find my interest level in myspace has plateaued for now. Haven't updated it for a while. I will soon.But I really have met a few nice interesting people and picked up on a couple of interesting artists. Also, with hamilton moving back to South Korea sooner than later, I'm hoping to make it more of an online journal so he can keep in touch with the goings-on around here, as well as regular e-mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 i'm a myspacer and like it. mostly for the reasons marco has already mentioned. Plus i really dig the whole blog phenomenon that's been sweeping the internet lately. it really encourages people to write, be creative and express themselves.too, i'm a big believer in "strangers are friends you've yet to meet" so I really have no problem with people adding me who don't know me. At one point they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 If marco pisses me off, he's outta my top 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I dig it. I never chat in the forums and only even looked once at the forums...so guess I have no opinion about the forums. Whats awesome imo is simply the ability to get a taste of SO MUCH MUSIC from far and wide that I doubt I ever would stumble upon otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Nothing against myspace, but last year a couple of myspacers were hot-linking photographs and art from some of my websites and passing them off as their own work. Jerks. That's how I learned about hot-link protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunkyb Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I have been on friendster for the past 3 years. Guess that is old school myspace. I have actually reconnected through it with a bunch of people I knew in the states.I recently joined myspace, it is the same thing as friendster. Don't know what kind of use I will get out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattm Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I have a page on myspace but I don't really have any friends on there. I have trey, mike, phish and the phish archives but that's about it and they don't really count since I don't think they'll answer messages. What do I have to do to get more random friends? Probably get more beautiful eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Check out this awesome picture I drawered: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I have a page on myspace but I don't really have any friends on there. I have trey, mike, phish and the phish archives but that's about it and they don't really count since I don't think they'll answer messages. What do I have to do to get more random friends? Probably get more beautiful eh?You also have to listen to Emo Phillips 24 hours a day. At least, that's what I think all that "Emo this" and "Emo that" talk is about...Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 :laugh: Booche, you crack me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 huh...well I guess I'll take my art down. Not much point in having it there other than showin off anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I just started a www.myspace.com/nufunkand I've been using it to connect with new bands, venues and actually have had some old friends have find me on there.. so for me it's been a great tool. There is also some great music out there that you can listen to on demand... It's also been a good tool to infor the public about a specific sound of band... For example a couple of people told me they came to the recent Jay Crocker show in Toronto because they heard the music off www.myspace.com/jaycrocker .. they liked what they heard, so they showed up. It's certainly easier to hear streaming music off myspace.com then downloading something off their website... and it also protects the musician's music by now allowing it for download.I will admit that it's a bit of a joke to have all these musicians you don't really know as 'Friends' and I do think that it's a easy time waster, but so far it's been another tool for me to promote music.Here's some spaces to check out...www.myspace.com/themeters - I JUST KISSED MY BABYwww.myspace.com/fortknoxfive - BRAZZILLIAN HIPSTERwww.myspace.com/allgoodfunkaliancewww.myspace.com/makeitfunkywww.myspace.com/drumsandtubaPlease add me to your friends lists!www.myspace.com/nufunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalacePrincess Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 out with your links, myspacers! myspace people that have died & still have their pages up. (including those raver kids that were killed in that seattle shooting a little while ago.) info on their deaths & links to their myspace pages: www.mydeathspace.com/deaths.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 www.mydeathspace.com/deaths.aspx That is so depressing. Apparently myspace.com is now banned where I work. It wasn't like that a couple of weeks ago. I blame Harper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Im going home Donny Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 shit that was depressing yet oddly fasinating....going outside now....internett ickies to clear away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeps Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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