Help me understand Myspace

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:30 pm

Why does everyone's page have that guy Tom as a friend? Is there a reason to have a couple hundred friends that you don't know and are never gonna meet?

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:31 pm

you're about 5 years too late on this one

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:35 pm

Just trying to get an answer. BTW, Graves would pound you silly.

tonefight · Post by **tonefight** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:57 pm

witchhunt wrote:Why does everyone's page have that guy Tom as a friend? Is there a reason to have a couple hundred friends that you don't know and are never gonna meet?

Since I am late on technology and just figured this out not too long ago, I will sympathize with you and tell you. Tom is the creator of myspace and is added as a friend from the start of your account.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:23 pm

witchhunt wrote:W Is there a reason to have a couple hundred friends that you don't know and are never gonna meet?

A secret desire to be raped.

CrossfireRadio · Post by **CrossfireRadio** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:40 pm

Myspace started out as a school project, by Tom. It then picked up a little bit at a time, with his friends registering on his site.

His friends told their friends, their friends told their friends, etc etc... It then just seem to have picked up from there...He lives in Cali, and everythings popular over there.. ha ha

Since tom is the creator, he is automatically added as your first friend when you sign up. (You can remove him though).

Myspace seemed like a good idea at the time apprently, but now, its just people trying to have more fake friends then another, and its full of flash ads out the ass, and very annoying.

Seems the only thing I do on there any more, is log in, view messages, delete most of them, cause their just spam ads, view new friends, deny most of them, because their porn ads, and thats pretty much it.

Theres my 2cents

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:55 pm

Now begins the debate of the century...

MySpace or Facebook

I personally prefer MySpace.

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:12 pm

I prefer MySpace too. Facebook is a little too adult and boring for me, lol.

I have met and/or talked to everyone on my "friends" list. It is kinda dumb when you see somebody that has 25,000 friends. (Unless it's a band or musician site)

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:23 pm

DrumAndDestroy wrote:you're about 5 years too late on this one

Word! I'm sad to see it lose popularity, though, it was better for bands, and you didn't have to read past 47 entries telling you,
"I'm brushing my teeth. "
"I'm spitting out the toothpaste."
"I'm rinsing my mouth."
Etcetera, blah, blah, blah.--->JMS

DrumAndDestroy · Post by **DrumAndDestroy** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:05 am

witchhunt wrote:Just trying to get an answer. BTW, Graves would pound you silly.

not if i send him a friend request!

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:22 am

I'm a Myspacer. I have a Facebook,... I just don't use it

[random]

BTW, for all on my friends list, I just posted a new bulletin... "I just watched her floss with a couple of my pubes!". It followed the 30 before it, as I was posting bulletins about everything she just did to me. Who is she? I'll tell you when I figure that out

[/random]

Welcome to Myspace. Prepare to read just about anything. While I don't post hardly anything except a rare blog and go on about replies, or perhaps saying hi to a friend or sending kudos to a band if I feel so inclined, I do read most of the time, excluding bulletins. If you skip majority of the bulletins part, Myspace becomes that much more likable!

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:45 pm

Myspace (or Myspam as I like to put it) is nothing but a spam machine. Too many profiles with stupid things, and fake egos. Some people on there are cool. But, the majority are just there for the spam. I quit using it about a year ago and use nothing but facebook now. It isn't riddled with as much garbage.

.. Just my two cents.

Post by **Jim Price** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:13 pm

I find that Myspace is still a good networking tool, especially for what I do. I have booked some "Homegrown Rocker" guests through it, and occasionally if a show listed in the "bulletins" doesn't get bumped off the front page by the other crap, I find out about shows through it as well. And I post the "Homegrown Rocker" recaps as bulletins, so bands who can't pick up the radio station know that their stuff is getting played.

I just got on Facebook recently and am still getting acclimated with it. For general networking with bands and music industry folks, I still prefer Myspace at this point, but Facebook has its good points too.

I'm still on the fence about whether to go with Twitter. I've heard both good and bad about it. And it's not like I don't already have enough internet stuff to keep updated on every day!

witchhunt · Post by **witchhunt** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:24 pm

Keep in mind that with Twitter, each post can only be 140 characters. You can still include a link, though.

FrigoRecording · Post by **FrigoRecording** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:34 pm

I tend to agree with JP on this one. Myspace is still a good place to network for bands and people in the music biz. I've found some good bands through myspace, and some have found me and booked studio time, so it works as a good business networking tool.

With facebook, I tend to do more keeping up with friends and family there, although I do a decent amount of business networking through facebook, too.

The music player on myspace of course sucks, so if bands would like to have higher quality music streams, using a facebook fan page with the reverbnation music player is not a bad idea. Of course now you have to keep up with a reverbnation account, too, so it never ends - myspace, facebook, reverbnation, twitter, tumbler, flicker, wordpress, and the list goes on!

Seriously, though, I think for bands and people in the music biz in general, it helps to have a presence on both myspace and facebook. Having both has certainly been good for me!

CrossfireRadio · Post by **CrossfireRadio** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:52 pm

songsmith wrote:
DrumAndDestroy wrote:you're about 5 years too late on this one
Word! I'm sad to see it lose popularity, though, it was better for bands, and you didn't have to read past 47 entries telling you,
"I'm brushing my teeth. "
"I'm spitting out the toothpaste."
"I'm rinsing my mouth."
Etcetera, blah, blah, blah.--->JMS

That sounds more like twitter lol

But, as for a networking place, myspace is the better of the "3". It helps us (CrossFire-Radio) find new bands to add to the station, some are good, some are ok, and some are really bad haha

as for anything else, its just an ads site and spam site...

Never really looked towards facebook, but thats more of a "friends/family" kinda thing aint it? and Twitter is just pointless (IMO)

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