OT: Myspace

[Ash]

When it first came out, Myspace.com was crap.
Not anymore!

I used to think it was just for teenagers but the ability to add some really cool content has emerged over the last year.
Now you can add music, videos and a whole bunch of other neat things!

This may be especially helpful for you bad movie lovers who like to post on here but want your seperate personality and things you like kept intact on a different page.

I highly recommend creating your own page.
It's super easy and you might surprise yourself with the results.

Check out my page here

I just started it so it's a work in progress.
Hopefully I'll keep it maintained.
(I wonder if it's just a fad)

By the way, an interesting fact about the band Orange Avenue who play the song on my page, the bass player was in a gaming clan with me for quite a while.
They used to be called Breaking Ground but had to change their name for legal reasons.

People like AndyC who love old arcade games...make your page!
Or...
Mr. Shumate from Coldfusionvideo...make your page!
Scottie who loves photography...make a page!
DaveBlackeye who loves Godzilla films...make a page!

What do you think?
Will you make a really cool page for us to check out?

[odinn7]

No Myspace pages for me although I do have a cheater log-in page that I use for scambaiting purposes but I don't think I will ever make a serious one. I know plenty of people who do have them and have made really nice pages but I will pass as it's not for me.

[dean]

Hehe... blogging culture is so funny.  I still have a thing against myspace though, but that may be because of some of the people I've been hanging around with lately.  Some of them are what I'd class as 'hardcore bloggers' and I get the impression they are pretty elitist in their blogging [eg laughing at all the 'stupid teeny bloggers on myspace']  

They use blogspot.com mostly, and the age of blogger/content ratio seems much more suited towards my type rather than the OMG LOL That ROXXORs stuff which quite often annoys me about a lot of myspace.

It's funny.  They even have what's called "Grog Blogging" which is basically a pub crawl where bloggers can go away from their computers and actually meet each other in person, since quite often alot of them would read blogs of people they don't even know.  It seems like there's a fairly big blog culture around the place, and it's funny listening to a discussion about proper grog blog etiquette in which should you introduce yourself by your nickname/blog name first, or your real name first?  It's pretty damn funny listening to that stuff really.  A friend of mine even got fired once for b***hing about his work in his blog, so now he has learnt the hard way of attempting to keep an anonymous-ish profile online.

A good mate of mine told me about a funny short story/film idea he had in which the entire world is destroyed except for a handful of bloggers who are locked in their house, writing about their lives and reading other people's writing about their lives, and they don't even know that it's a wasteland outside.

Hehe... as you can probably tell, I may have been tempted to join their ranks but I barely have enough time to waste here anyway, so it's all a bit beyond me really.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Meh.

I read quite a few blogs, but mainly non-blog blogs...if that makes any sense.  I read a lot of technology sites that are in a blog format (enagadget.com, gizmodo.com, etc) but I don't care much for the personal rambling type of blogs.

I especially dislike Myspace.com.  Just about everyone I know has a myspace page, and they each seem to annoy me.  It's just a passing fad that'll be gone in a year or so.

[Ash]

I wasn't looking for bloggers.

I was looking for serious creativity and cool page layouts with awesome tunes and videos of whatever.
That's what I like about Myspace.
The ability to express who you really are and what you like.

It's sad that Myspace has received the...stigma...that it has.
It can be used for good you know...

Creative people like us can use it in ways never thought of.

Forget blogging!  It isn't my cup of tea.
LOL!

[Scottie]

I learned something disturbing about myspace, facebook, and every other website where you can post all your personal information for the world to know. Well, some very big corporations are listening to what you have to say. Have you ever wondered how places like these stay in business when they don't charge you anything to join? It's because they sell information collected through their pages to big business who in turn use the info to market their products to the appropriate people. What you are doing in essence is putting on a gigantic billboard that says "I LIKE THESE THINGS THESE WAYS" to the people who are trying to sell those things. No thank you. I already get enough hassle from television commercials and highway billboards. The last thing I need is someone else telling me what I need because I at one time put interest into it.

[Ash]

I had a feeling you all would be repulsed by Myspace like Superman to Kryptonite.

I was right of course.

I predicted many of your responses before I even started this thread.
I wasn't for sure though.
But I had my doubts.

Contrary to what you may or may not think, I am not one of these.

[Scottie]

Don't get me wrong Ash, I like the idea of seeing other people's interests. Myspace has introduced me to bands I would normally have never even heard of. Plus William Shatner has a a page. It's just that, people are out there mining for our information. That's unsettling to me. I enjoy my privacy enough that when I find out I'm being sold out, I recoil a little.

[LH-C]

Eh, I don't care about it either way. If a musician or band is trying to promote themselves on myspace or somewhere else, then fine I'll go check it out once in a long great while. If my friends have blogs or whatever, same thing. I tried the blogging thing about 6 years ago, and I found it to be boring.

[Just Plain Horse]

Scottie Wrote:
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> I learned something disturbing about myspace,
> facebook, and every other website where you can
> post all your personal information for the world
> to know. Well, some very big corporations are
> listening to what you have to say. Have you ever
> wondered how places like these stay in business
> when they don't charge you anything to join? It's
> because they sell information collected through
> their pages to big business who in turn use the
> info to market their products to the appropriate
> people. What you are doing in essence is putting
> on a gigantic billboard that says "I LIKE THESE
> THINGS THESE WAYS" to the people who are trying to
> sell those things. No thank you. I already get
> enough hassle from television commercials and
> highway billboards. The last thing I need is
> someone else telling me what I need because I at
> one time put interest into it.

It doesn't surprise me much... our culture is about depriving us of everything until we are willing to pay out the nose for it.

Nevertheless, I have a Myspace page- which a close friend talked me into setting up. I mainly like them because I can listen to almost any song I want for free... kind of cheap, I guess.

[ulthar]

ASHTHECAT Wrote:
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> I had a feeling you all would be repulsed by
> Myspace
>
> I was right of course.
>
> I predicted many of your responses before I even
> started this thread.
>

Hey, Ash, since you predict our response to things you post so often, could you send me the prediction BEFORE you post a thread?  I want to see if you are really predicting the badmovies.org community response so well.

If so, you might have a future in the Psychic Hotline biz, and I'd want a cut.  ;)

You could call my role "due diligence" on your business plan.

(relax, it's a joke)

[Ash]

ulthar Wrote:
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(relax, it's a joke)

See the WyreWizard's thread.

Relax, it's a joke.

[BeyondTheGrave]

I hate Myspace and never will have a page but like Scottie I do like the music aspect of it. I too have run into alot of bands that I would never have heard any other way.

[ulthar]

ASHTHECAT Wrote:
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>
> See the WyreWizard's thread.
>


LOL.  Touche.

[Mofo Rising]

I've got a MySpace account.  Basically I use it to fill out time wasting questionnaires and send messages and stupid pictures to my friends.

I had resisted getting a MySpace account because it has such a stupid reputation, but there's just too damn many people I know on there.  Basically it's a good way to waste time and keep up with people I might not otherwise be in touch with.  Sort of a mix between a bulletin board and email.

The problem with MySpace is that it is extremely buggy and often slow.  Sure it lets people insert their own code into their pages, but that doesn't mean they know how to do it well.

I never write anything of any importance on MySpace.  For that I use that Xanga blog, where I pretty much just make fun of current events.

Like I said, it's a good way to waste time.  I currently have time to spare, so I've been keeping those pages current.  That won't always be the case.